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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

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

“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

“Every day is a masterpiece, even if it crushes you.”
― Simon Van Booy, The Illusion of Separateness