Disappearance at Devil's Rock Quotes

“But ghosts aren't white and bright. Ghosts are shadows of someone or something gone wrong.”
― Paul Tremblay, Disappearance at Devil's Rock

“All cats are assholes. It’s what makes them so cool.” “True.”
― Paul Tremblay, Disappearance at Devil's Rock

“Maybe the people who go away are the ones who are not afraid, not sad, and not alone. Maybe there’s a place where they gather and say things like What is to be done with all the silly people we left behind?”
― Paul Tremblay, Disappearance at Devil's Rock

“a brief summary of perhaps the most famous Third Man account: that of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton. With their boat frozen in the ice, Shackleton and two other men trekked for thirty-six hours across a mountain and glacier-filled South Georgia to a whaling station. The three men barely survived the harrowing trip, spending weeks convalescing in a hospital afterward. Shackleton and his crewmates reported that a mysterious fourth man had joined them and had walked silently alongside during the latter stages of the trek. The mysterious man never spoke, but his presence was a comfort and helped to keep them moving forward.”
― Paul Tremblay, Disappearance at Devil's Rock

“Elizabeth actively despises the landline’s inefficiency in regard to their everyday lives. The only calls the phone receives are credit card offers, scam vacation prizes, charities and fringe political groups looking for money, and the occasional mass recorded message from the town of Ames broadcasting the closing of school during snowstorms. When the kids were little, Elizabeth wanted to keep the landline so that they’d be able to dial 911 should “anything bad happen.” That was the phrase”
― Paul Tremblay, Disappearance at Devil's Rock

“Luis imagines his smallness as a condition without a cure, and it’s accelerating. He’ll shrink so that the grass is over his waist and then over his head, and he’ll continue shrinking until the grass stalks are as large as redwoods, until he’s down in the dirt with the ants and the ticks and the spiders, and then he’s even too small for them to bother with, and maybe it would be okay living down here alone in the secret roots of the world.”
― Paul Tremblay, Disappearance at Devil's Rock

“Dave was self-deprecating, charming in an Eeyore kind of way, pleasantly quirky, but not quirky enough for her to ask him on a date. She got the sense that the feeling was mutual, as he never asked her out, either. He ruptured a disc in his back the following summer and had since put on some weight that he carried with the oversized shame and regret of a scarlet letter.”
― Paul Tremblay, Disappearance at Devil's Rock

“Her having finally given up the diary to Mom is an act of acceptance, although whoever said Acceptance is the price of freedom has a funny definition of freedom.”
― Paul Tremblay, Disappearance at Devil's Rock

“Acceptance is the price of freedom has a funny definition of freedom.”
― Paul Tremblay, Disappearance at Devil's Rock

“Don't leave..... I'm still here.”
― Paul Tremblay, Disappearance at Devil's Rock

“Tonight isn't about more dark, it's about more nothing.”
― Paul Tremblay, Disappearance at Devil's Rock

“there’s only the crying and pieces of yourself leaking away, never to be retrieved.”
― Paul Tremblay, Disappearance at Devil's Rock

“The urge to be the one who disappears suddenly becomes a compulsion. Maybe the people who go away are the ones who are not afraid, not sad, and not alone. Maybe there’s a place where they gather and say things like What is to be done with all the silly people we left behind? Kate”
― Paul Tremblay, Disappearance at Devil's Rock