Vanishing Acts

Vanishing Acts Vanishing Acts (2005) is the twelfth novel by the American author Jodi Picoult. The novel is set in rural New Hampshire, and the story focuses on Delia Hopkins, a missing persons' investigator, and her family, including her young daughter, Sophie, her widowed father, Andrew, and her search and rescue bloodhound, Greta.

Quotes

• I learned a lot that night […] That when people vanish into thin air; that when you can’t find someone, it’s because you’ve been misdirected to look elsewhere.
  • Prologue, Pages 1-2

• You can’t exist in this world without leaving a piece of yourself behind.”
  • Part 1, Page 5

• Me—a tomboy who spent hours in the company of boys pretending to be a swashbuckling privateer, or an archeologist searching for relics, a girl who had only once been the damsel in distress, and even then had rescued herself—I had written only a single wild wish. One day, I’d written, I will be a mother.”
  • Part 1, Page 18.

• That people don't vanish into thin air; that when you can't find someone, it's because you've been misdirected to look elsewhere.
  • Page 2.

• triumverate; as adults, we are still remarkably close. In fact, Fitz will be pulling double
  • Page 9.

• .But a witness is defined through what he sees, not what he says. And just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want that to be true.
  • IPage 60.

• It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.
  • Page 102.

• Sometimes, when you don't ask questions, it's not because you are afraid that someone will lie to your face. It's because you're afraid they'll tell you the truth.
  • Page 102.

• Love is the most dangerous craving of all, if you ask me. It turns us into people we aren't. It makes us feel like hell, and makes us walk on water. It ruins us for anything else.
  • Page 139.

• Memories aren't stored in the heart or the head or even the soul, if you ask me, but in the spaces between any given two people.
  • Page 283.

• Recollections are in the eye of the beholder; no two held up side by side will ever quite match.
  • Page 497.

• What if it turns out that a life isn't defined by who you belong to or where you came from, by what you wished for or whom you've lost, but instead by the moments you spend getting from each of these places to the next?
  • Page 525.

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