Vanishing Falls Quotes

“In this garden, the air was sweet and clean, like the cool water running in the creek. Beyond the garden was the rainforest, a damp cathedral of fragrant myrtle and sassafras, sprawling mosses and ancient lichen... There was only one road into Vanishing Falls... the road meandered through hilly green pastures where black-and-white cows grazed, past pretty weatherboard farmhouses with splendid man ferns out front, thick hedges, and rose gardens.”
― Poppy Gee, Vanishing Falls

“Jack ignored him. He called out an encouragement to his girls, trotting on their ponies. He felt Cliff shifting beside him. Silence was how Jack dealt with needy, desperate clients. No one had taught him that; he had always known it was the smoothest way to get the result you wanted, particularly when dealing with volatile, emotional people.”
― Poppy Gee, Vanishing Falls

“The lovely lady had perked up by the time they reached Old Dairy Road.”
― Poppy Gee, Vanishing Falls

“Breakfast was Nev’s favorite meal; he often ate it for lunch and dinner”
― Poppy Gee, Vanishing Falls

“The church steeple was the next part of the town to become visible. There was a truth in that, he supposed, for the Calendar House and the church were the only buildings in town used for the purposes they were originally intended. Grand buildings, both of them, built with free convict labor and inherited money. A calendar house was a showy thing, with the number of major features totaling either four for the seasons, seven for the days in the week, fifty-two for the weeks in the year, twelve for the months in the year. The ultimate vanity of the Lilys’ Calendar House, in Cliff’s opinion, were the 365 windows—especially considering the cost of glass when the house was built.”
― Poppy Gee, Vanishing Falls

“There were two rabbits nibbling the green tufts growing around a fence post. She tried to creep up and pat them, but they scampered away before she could get close.”
― Poppy Gee, Vanishing Falls

“For a reason no one understood,”
― Poppy Gee, Vanishing Falls

“The air was fragrant with the cinnamon-scented sassafras bark. A flock of birds, white on the blue sky, fell like they had lost their breath in unison.”
― Poppy Gee, Vanishing Falls

“In this garden, the air was sweet and clean, like the cool water running in the creek. Beyond the garden was the rainforest, a damp cathedrfral of fragrant myrtle and sassafras, sprawling mosses and ancient lichen... There was only one road into Vanishing Falls... the road meandered through hilly green pastures where black-and-white cows grazed, past pretty weatherboard farmhouses with splendid man ferns out front, thick hedges, and rose gardens.”
― Poppy Gee, Vanishing Falls

“Burying a person in the rainforest is like throwing a body off a boat into the ocean. It's too dense to search...”
― Poppy Gee, Vanishing Falls

“If you think about where murderers hide bodies, it's bound to be a place they know. You wouldn't drive to a new place. Too risky. It would make sense for the place where you dispose of a body to be close by. You would choose a place that you've been before, even if it was years ago.”
― Poppy Gee, Vanishing Falls

“Jack had other friends, men with whom he played golf, went sailing, or had long business lunches. Some were farmers he had known since he was a boy, others were friends from boarding school or work connections. They were friends who required something of him, a level of either intellectual or professional engagement. With Cliff he could relax. It wasn't so much that he could be more himself. Rather, with Cliff, he could be nothing.”
― Poppy Gee, Vanishing Falls