“With Wallace, Ali became one of the best-travelled young Malay men of the time.”
Source: "Look Here, Sir, What a Curious Bird": Searching for Ali, Alfred Russel Wallace's Faithful Companion
“At the time I went along with the story they gave us, which was that they’d found his van broken down and they’d seen him hitchhiking off. They asked me if I knew where he might be heading. So, at the time I took it a bit lightly – I wish I hadn’t.”
Source: Vanished: True Stories from Families of Australian Missing Persons
“I find it harder and harder to talk about. It’s the frustration. I wish people had been this interested back then – we might have her with us.”
Source: Vanished: True Stories from Families of Australian Missing Persons
“Maybe she decided to hitchhike, which sounds a bit weird these days, but in those days we used to hitchhike quite a lot. I wasn’t really concerned about her; you hadn’t yet had your Ivan Milats and the sort of people who mean a hell of a lot less people hitchhike these days.”
Source: Vanished: True Stories from Families of Australian Missing Persons
“It's the way she says Cathy that makes me listen, the way a woman pleads to any deity that has damned all her prayers, redirected them to death. A woman deboned of hope.”
Source: Bone House
“People just didn’t seem interested. Now, with social media, if someone goes missing you hear about it straightaway. I just got to the stage where I was really disillusioned with everything. When they were talking about this new police operation … why couldn’t they have done something like this earlier? None of the men who were around then are probably still alive.”
Source: Vanished: True Stories from Families of Australian Missing Persons
“Was God punishing me? Why? What was I guilty of- except falling in love?”
Source: The Silent Patient
“Behind every ‘I’m fine’ is an untold story of heartache”
“…but people's memories are short for any sorrow that isn't theirs...”
Source: The Fisherman 546HGFHFG
“No one compares to you, but there's no you, except in my dreams tonight.”