When You Disappeared Quotes

“You can either learn from your parents’ mistakes, or repeat them and use them as an excuse for your own behaviour.”
― John Marrs, When You Disappeared

“To anyone who ever gave you confidence - you owe them a lot.”
― John Marrs, The Wronged Sons

“It was better to remain on my island than drown in somebody else’s sea.”
― John Marrs, When You Disappeared

“It was better to remain on my island than drown in somebody else’s sea. 7”
― John Marrs, When You Disappeared

“There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction.’ —Franz Kafka”
― John Marrs, When You Disappeared

“But the greatest moments of your life are exactly that – just moments. And by their design, moments don’t last.”
― John Marrs, When You Disappeared

“Because the more you trust in someone, the more opportunities you give them to shatter your illusions about them.”
― John Marrs, When You Disappeared

“But I knew eventually it would fail me. Everything that makes you happy eventually disappoints.”
― John Marrs, When You Disappeared

“Thanks to my mum, Pamela Marrs, the biggest reader I know and who inspired my love of books. Thank you to Tracy Fenton from Facebook’s THE Book Club for discovering this story and helping it to take on a life of its own. And in alphabetical order, thank you to my early readers Katie Begley, Lorna Fitch, Fiona Goodman, Jenny Goodman,”
― John Marrs, When You Disappeared

“He was her only love, but his paranoia and insecurities wouldn’t allow him to believe that. My mother was not strong enough to leave him. She tried her best to please him and win his trust, but when you accuse someone so often, eventually they will give in and prove you right.”
― John Marrs, When You Disappeared

“Holly was right. To anyone who ever gave you confidence – you owe them a lot.”
― John Marrs, When You Disappeared

“Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.’ —Paulo Coelho”
― John Marrs, When You Disappeared

“There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction.’ —Franz Kafka ‘Life”
― John Marrs, When You Disappeared

“but my son nonetheless.”
― John Marrs, When You Disappeared

“Because the more you trust in someone, the more opportunities you give them to shatter your illusions”
― John Marrs, When You Disappeared

“así es el amor, Simon. No renuncias nunca a la persona a la que le has entregado el corazón. Jamás pierdes la esperanza de que, por mucho que se compliquen las cosas, la otra persona te va a buscar.”
― John Marrs, Cuando desapareciste

“And with a final anxious sigh, he closed his eyes and wondered if God would listen when he apologised for all he had done.”
― John Marrs, When You Disappeared

“Hay cosas que uno solo puede conseguir saltando deliberadamente en la dirección opuesta. FRANZ KAFKA”
― John Marrs, Cuando desapareciste

“tortured soul”
― John Marrs, When You Disappeared

“They were too young to sense the distance and sadness that remained between Simon and me. I’d come to terms with the fact things might never get back to how they’d been, no matter what we did or said. Instead, we were adjusting to a new kind of normal in the best way we could.”
― John Marrs, When You Disappeared

“even the right people can wrong you when you least expect it.”
― John Marrs, When You Disappeared

“you scratch the surface of something perfect, you’ll always find something rotten hidden beneath.”
― John Marrs, When You Disappeared

“Stones had been cast and glasshouses lay in shards all around us.”
― John Marrs, When You Disappeared

“No matter how death happens, the pain is hideous.”
― John Marrs, When You Disappeared

“Because the more you trust in someone, the more opportunities you give them to shatter your illusions about them. But”
― John Marrs, When You Disappeared

“There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction.”
― John Marrs, When You Disappeared

“Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.”
― John Marrs, When You Disappeared

“I questioned what was missing in my father’s make-up that rendered him unable to keep hold of Doreen.”
― John Marrs, When You Disappeared

“But that’s what love is, Simon. It’s never giving up on the person you’ve given your heart to. It’s having faith that no matter how tough things get, that person will always be looking for you.”
― John Marrs, When You Disappeared

“Stones had been cast and glasshouses lay in shards all around us. Inside I was dead; it was time for my exterior to follow suit.”
― John Marrs, When You Disappeared