Disappearing in Plain Sight Quotes

“When Caleb said it didn’t matter who you had been or what you had done he meant it; and you knew he meant it. That type of acceptance could transform a person. But it was also important to be able to tell your painful stories and know that someone else really heard you – that someone stepped onto the path of darkness and walked alongside of you. It mattered that another person wanted to know who you had been and what had happened to you.”
― Francis Guenette, Disappearing in Plain Sight

“Book-club night stopped abruptly when Caleb died. For almost a year and a half, as if by some type of tacit agreement, they all knew they couldn’t be in the same room at the same time. It was as if their collective grief would multiply, rebounding endlessly within any closed space like an image in a house of mirrors, until the pain would overcome them all.”
― Francis L. Guenette, Disappearing in Plain Sight