Meghan O'Rourke Quotes

Until, one day, she wasn’t.

No magic. I do believe you might have taken it all with you when you went away.

How is it possible that a boyfriend ceases to exist from one day to another?

One day you're there and then all of a sudden, there's less of you. And you wonder where that part went. If it's living somewhere outside of you. And you keep thinking maybe you'll get it back. And then you realize it's just gone.

Gone - flitted away, Taken the stars from the night and the sun From the day! Gone, and a cloud in my heart.

Hes gone. Hes just gone.

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

When my father died, I was living in England. It was very traumatic that he died when I was away.

Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.

You can lose people without them dying, and I have, from moving, from traveling. The emotion is real, it just doesn't actually have to do with death. I'm singing about what I know, and it's a song about longing for somebody who's disappeared in your life.

All that remains is was.

Sometimes a disappearance can be more haunting than an apparition.

It's unfathomable how you live without your mother.

It was a cool day and very clear. You could see a long way-but not as far as Velma had gone.

You know someone for a while and then one day a hole opens underneath them, and they fall out of your world.

I'm not vanishing into thin air.

We have missed him in the sunshine, in the storm, in the twilight, ever since.

In everyone's life there are people who stay and people who go and people who are taken against their will.

The hippogriff took off into the air. . . . He and his rider became smaller and smaller as Harry gazed after them . . . then a cloud drifted across the moon. . . . They were gone.

After school the very next day, El Rey's mobile home was gone. I laid in bed and wondered what happens to people when they go, if they become like shadows, if they fade away when they disappear from your life. The only thing I could see was the broken picket fence. The only sound I could hear was the cry of birds being killed in the night.

When someone gradually leaves your life, that's one thing because you get used to the end of it. When somebody disappears, it takes all of your control away. It leaves you frantic.

I missed you, Angel. Not one day went by that I didn't feel you missing from my life.

She just keeps saying "He’s gone.

People go away and they don't come back.

Fear never shows up and the party ends early.