Reappearance Quotes

“Disappear for a while! Let the people miss you! And this is what the sun does with the sunset! When you reappear, you are much loved!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The young man went to India, where he was drowned. As there is no mystery in this matter, it may as well be stated here that young Heaton ultimately returned to England, as drowned men have ever been in the habit of doing, when their return will mightily inconvenience innocent persons who have taken their places. It is a disputed question whether the sudden disappearance of a man, or his reappearance after a lapse of years, is the more annoying.

("The Vengeance Of The Dead")”
― Robert Barr, Gaslit Nightmares: Stories by Robert W. Chambers, Charles Dickens, Richard Marsh, and Others

“He didn't think they were all after a criminal. He suspected it was an innocent girl.
Well, a beautiful young woman, really; as comely as his niece Tasha, who was so clever with her loom and quick with her tongue. But this girl had extraordinary silver hair-- a color so unusual the captain had seen it only once before in his long years in the guard.
On a royal princess, a tiny baby, dead to the world.
In fairy tales and myths, when children were given up because of a prophecy or because the family was starving, they did disappear into the world for a while-- and then came back years later like a cicada, bringing the power of youth and the unavoidable anger of the gods with them.”
― Liz Braswell, What Once Was Mine