Such silence has an actual sound, the sound of disappearance.

Finnamore’s line treats silence not as mere absence but as a palpable presence—something with texture and even “sound.” The paradox (“silence has an actual sound”) suggests that what is most audible in certain moments is what has vanished: a person withdrawing, a relationship ending, a self fading, or a life slipping out of view. “The sound of disappearance” evokes the emotional acoustics of loss—how emptiness can feel loud, how gaps in conversation or contact become their own kind of message. The quote’s power lies in making erasure sensory, implying that disappearance is not neutral; it registers, reverberates, and can be felt as an event.