Missing Quotes

“Now you will know the real
hell. Not the one you go to after you die.
This is the one you go before.”
― Kwei Quartey, Last Seen in Lapaz

“So, everything that’s happened, that’s just the way life is, and it’s never going to be the way you think you want it. I’m not embarrassed about my brother, but I just don’t want to relive it, because people ask, “Oh, where’s your brother, what’s he doing?” and I have to say I don’t know, I haven’t seen him in over 30 years.”
― Nicole Morris, Vanished: True Stories from Families of Australian Missing Persons

“My brother, when he went to sleep, always put his shoes beside the swag, and when he got up in the morning the first thing he did was put his shoes on. He did that ever since he was little. And he never went anywhere without his hat. So, for him to walk off up the road without his hat or his shoes, that’s just straight-up lies. No. I know that for a fact.”
― Nicole Morris, Vanished: True Stories from Families of Australian Missing Persons

“This is the first birthday I've had without the person who's responsible for bringing me into the world all those decades ago. My mother... Because it was her desire to be the first to wish me a happy birthday, I always got a 5:30am phone call from her. I'm an early riser, but not that early. Yet even when my birthday fell on a Saturday, or Sunday, I loved getting that call. There are so many things you miss about a loving mother, especially on the first birthday you have without her.”
― Lorna Landvik, Chronicles of a Radical Hag

“When Ngozi opened her eyes, she had a split second of disorientation.
Where was this dazzling, airy room? Heaven? No, East
Legon in a beautiful bed with a beautiful man—close enough.”
― Kwei Quartey, Last Seen in Lapaz

“Because she was trying to flee from them, they regarded her as a fugitive from the jaws of the Alligator.”
― Kwei Quartey, Last Seen in Lapaz

“Dressed in an expensive-looking dark
gray suit, the man was in his early sixties and had the air of one
accustomed to giving orders, not carrying them out.”
― Kwei Quartey, Last Seen in Lapaz

“The version of Paul I miss most, more even than the robust, dazzling version whom I first fell in love, is the beautiful, focused man he was in his last year. The Paul who wrote this book. Frail, but never weak.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“Florida altered the historical record for the Hurricane Ian aftermath.”
― Steven Magee

“Abusers rely on their victims silence.”
― Steven Magee

“If you want to disappear bodies, you bring the military in.”
― Steven Magee

“Do you believe the Florida government?”
― Steven Magee

“Lots of Florida people missing or just a few?”
― Steven Magee

“Do you remember the time when the Florida government was not reporting the number of bodies found and the number of people missing during the hurricane Ian disaster?”
― Steven Magee

“Do you ever get the feeling the Florida government is lying to you?”
― Steven Magee

“Silence can be a form of fraud.”
― Steven Magee

“I will remember 2022 as the year of the Florida dead bodies and missing people fraud!”
― Steven Magee

“Many people noticed the absence of news reporting on the known numbers of dead bodies found and missing people reported in the hurricane Ian disaster.”
― Steven Magee

“The only reliable news source I could find for the numbers of dead bodies and missing people in the Florida hurricane Ian disaster was on social media.”
― Steven Magee

“The Florida government not reporting the numbers of known dead bodies and missing people prompted me to research it.”
― Steven Magee

“Loadsabodies?”
― Steven Magee

“Christmas 2022 was a time where stranded air travelers were living at airports and checked bags were going missing in large numbers!”
― Steven Magee

“When flying budget airlines you should be prepared to lose money, be potentially stranded at an airport, your checked bags may go missing and you may have to buy a replacement flight from a larger carrier that is more expensive!”
― Steven Magee

“Ignoring how much I miss you doesn't make it go away.”
― Hadinet Tekie

“Made flesh by love.”
― Hadinet Tekie, Stories She Tells

“Missing someone you love for an extended period of time can and will lead to madness, every bit as much as a wound that is not cleaned will lead to a festering sore, and thence an illness that spreads throughout the body. The only boundary between desire and obsession is time; if you crave someone long enough, it becomes a need. It becomes your ever-waking thought. The only thing you live for.”
― C J Cooke

“Never miss twice. When you forget to do a habit, make sure you get back on track immediately.”
― James Clear, Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

“A missing child is a missing child, kid.”
― CJ pallister, Summer of 55: Unconditional friendship!

“Of the thousand of lines he had come across, there was one that had stayed with him. "Someday this pain will be useful to you." I hoped he was right. And that one day, not too far in the future, all this pain would be useful to future generations born on the island, to the grandchildren of those who had lived through the troubles. If you go to Cyprus today, you can still find tombstones of Greek widows and Turkish widows, engraved in different alphabets but with a similar plea: "If you find my husband, please bury him next to me.”
― Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees

“Brain knows it's foolish, heart disagrees: Missing the one who left.”
― Vikrant Adams