I read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them. — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
“The very best and the very worst of life will come from [their] ability to love strangers.” — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
“Music is only a mystery to people who want it explained. Music and love are the same.” — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
“Language is like looking at a map of somewhere. Love is living there and surviving on the land. ” — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
“You can’t explain love” he said out loud. “That’s how it gets ruined.” — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
“His father was an attorney in Paris. He met Sebastien’s mother on a train to Amsterdam. There were no other seats. They… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
“In that moment of recognition he is not consumed by a rushing sensation of love-quite simply a door opens to a room… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
It's tempting to imagine how we could hurt someone close, because it reminds us how fiercely we love them. — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
I think anyone can fall in love, if you're open and you're willing, but the real test is sustaining it after all… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
“Those left behind sometimes try and stop loving- but this is a mistake, because even if you have loved only once in… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
To love again, you must not discard what has happened to you, but take from it the strength you'll need to carry… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
But say you do find the right people - how do you love them without smothering them?...How do you not suffocate them… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
Where are people going? I wonder what they hope will happen and what they are afraid of? For me it's the same… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
Could it be that first love was the only true love? And that after those first fires had been doused or burned… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
Everything that we love will, at some point, be taken away from us. If I think about everyone I love eventually being… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
“She once told me how she could feel the missing part of her arm- how she sometimes experienced the sensation of a… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
Perhaps we were each allotted only a certain amount of love - enough for only an initial meeting - a serendipitous clumsiness.… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
“Maybe happiness is just finding the right people at the right time." "But how do you find them?" ... "But say you… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
Everything that we love will, at some point, be taken away from us. If I think about everyone I love eventually being… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
“There is little joy in those first moments of recognition- for the reality is that most encounters of such depth, most first… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
When I was in my early twenties, I fell in love at least 20 times a day. You have to be with… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
Love between strangers takes only a few seconds and can last a whole life. — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
I think you can love someone and be infatuated with them, too. But infatuation is immediate, while the sort of love in… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
You can't put a price on the rituals of love, because you never know what will happen next. I suppose fear is… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
I think living with the absence of someone we love is like living in front of a mountain from which a person… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
“I think we keep these moments of rejection and acceptance very close. I think we carry them always, like cracked shells from which a… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share
I suppose the key to a good life is to gently overlook the truth and hope that at any moment we can all be… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share
“When he smiles, they mostly look away. But Martin likes to think they carry his smile for a few blocks – that even the… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share
Succes is really nothing more than the record of failure. To be successful means you must be willing to fail more than anyone else. — Simon Van Booy Copy Share
I wonder if things can happen too early or too late or if everything happens at exactly the right time. If so, how sad… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share
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… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share
But say you do find the right people - how do you love them without smothering them?...How do you not suffocate them with all… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share
We touched with a softness that pushed through the skin into memory, like arms plunged into a river - we could feel the weight… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share
When I was in my early twenties, I fell in love at least 20 times a day. You have to be with someone where… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share
“It had rained, she said, and I imagined the beads of small water on the windshield like a thousand eyes, or each drop a… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share
The most frustrating part of trying to direct everything is not that it alienates you from people who genuinely want to help, but that… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share
Writers are often alone when they work. Hours pass in silence as one long moment; light fades as day turns back to face the… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share
“Music is only a mystery to people who want it explained. Music and love are the same.” — Simon Van Booy Copy Share
Death is the most sophisticated form of beauty, and the most difficult to accept. — Simon Van Booy Copy Share
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