Simon Van Booy > Quotes

“[I] read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.”
― Simon Van Booy

“You were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.”
― Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After

“Coincidences mean you're on the right path.”
― Simon Van Booy, Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories

“For those who are lost, there will always be cities that feel
like home.”
― Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After

“I wonder if things can happen too early or too late or if everything happens at exactly the right time. If so, how sad and beautiful.”
― Simon Van Booy, The Secret Lives of People in Love

“I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment - we are all defined by something we can’t change.”
― Simon Van Booy, The Illusion of Separateness

“He thinks I suffer from depression. But I’m just quiet. Solitude and depression are like swimming and drowning. In school many years ago, I learned that flowers sometimes unfold inside themselves.”
― Simon Van Booy, Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories

“Loneliness is like being the only person left alive in the
universe, except that everyone else is still here.”
― Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After

“The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.”
― Simon Van Booy, Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories

“For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.”
― Simon Van Booy

“Love between strangers takes only a few seconds and can last a whole life.”
― Simon Van Booy, Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories

“The passions we cannot control are the ones that define us.”
― Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After

“Every moment is the paradox of now or never.”
― Simon Van Booy, Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories

“When small drops began to fall and darken the world in penny-shaped circles, no one around him scurried for cover. For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.”
― Simon Van Booy

“Sometimes I wake up and lie still enough to hear a petal drop from the vase of flowers. Sometimes I lie awake and wish there was someone to hear my falling.”
― Simon Van Booy, The Illusion of Separateness

“I want to do things for people they will never forget. Maybe that’s the best thing I can do in life.”
― Simon Van Booy, The Secret Lives of People in Love

“But those who seek only reassurance from life will never be more than tourists—seeing everything and trying to possess what can only be felt.
Beauty is the shadow of imperfection.”
― Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After

“For some people, life is the process of knocking through walls to get out. For others, it is the building of walls.”
― Simon Van Booy, The Secret Lives of People in Love

“It’s true the people we meet shape us. But the people we don’t meet shape us also, often more because we have imagined them so vividly.

There are people we yearn for but never seem to meet.”
― Simon Van Booy, The Secret Lives of People in Love

“If there is such a thing as marriage, it takes place long before the ceremony; in a car on the way to the airport; or as a gray bedrooms fills with dawn, one lover watching the other; or as two strangers stand together in the rain with no bus in sight, arms weighed down with shopping bags. You don't know then. But later you realize - that was the moment.”
― Simon Van Booy

“I don’t see the point of truth anymore, it causes just as much heartbreak as lying.”
― Simon Van Booy, The Secret Lives of People in Love

“To love again, you must not discard what has happened to you, but take from it the strength you'll need to carry on.”
― Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After

“I think music is what language once aspired to be. Music allows us to face God on our own terms because it reaches beyond life.”
― Simon Van Booy

“Language allows us to reach out to people, to touch them with our innermost fears, hopes, disappointments, victories. To reach out to people we'll never meet.
It's the greatest legacy you could ever leave your children or your loved ones:
The history of how you felt.”
― Simon Van Booy

“Actually, years mean nothing. It's what's inside them.”
― Simon Van Booy, Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories

“Should you ever feel too lonely...listen for the roar of the sea- for in it are all those who've been and all those who are to come.”
― Simon Van Booy, The Coming and Going of Strangers

“Dreamers conquered the world long ago.”
― Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After

“We see in others what we want and what we fear.”
― Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After

“I think we keep these moments of rejection and acceptance very close. I think we carry them always, like cracked shells from which a part of us once hatched.”
― Simon Van Booy, The Secret Lives of People in Love

“You can’t explain love” he said out loud. “That’s how it gets ruined.”
― Simon Van Booy, Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories