Simon Van Booy

Hands have their own language.

— Simon Van Booy

Love requires imagination more than experience.

— Simon Van Booy

“Love is life but longer”

— Simon Van Booy

I once saved someone from drowning.

— Simon Van Booy

Sometimes, language is the sound of longing

— Simon Van Booy

Love is also a violence, and cannot be undone.

— Simon Van Booy

When I'm doing something, I do work hard at it.

— Simon Van Booy

Every moment is the paradox of now or never.

— Simon Van Booy

“We cross from memory into imagination with only a vague awareness of change.”

— Simon Van Booy

Actually, years mean nothing. It's what's inside them.

— Simon Van Booy

“The very best and the very worst of life will come from [their] ability to love strangers.”

— Simon Van Booy

I don’t see the point of truth anymore, it causes just as much heartbreak as lying.

— Simon Van Booy

“The love of a man is like a drop of color into something clear.”

— Simon Van Booy

I read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.

— Simon Van Booy

“When it rains, even the most insignificant puddle is a map of the universe.”

— Simon Van Booy

I wanted to explain that trusting is harder than being trusted.

— Simon Van Booy

“Rain says everything we cannot say to one another. t is an ancient sound that willed all life into being, but fell…

— Simon Van Booy

“I think we keep these moments of rejection and acceptance very close. I think we carry them always, like cracked shells from…

— Simon Van Booy

It's tempting to imagine how we could hurt someone close, because it reminds us how fiercely we love them.

— Simon Van Booy

“He thinks I suffer from depression. But I’m just quiet. Solitude and depression are like swimming and drowning. In school many years…

— Simon Van Booy

I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory,…

— Simon Van Booy

But those who seek only reassurance from life will never be more than tourists—seeing everything and trying to possess what can only…

— Simon Van Booy

Children are the closest we have to wisdom and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained…

— Simon Van Booy

I tried to convey to the boy how people's lives are often altered by curved lines read slowly from paper, sand, or…

— Simon Van Booy

“She said that one day they would be very old, that the world would be a different place, but it would always…

— Simon Van Booy

“He might be famous (local newspaper or television) for finding it, true—but if fame takes away the thing it celebrates, then Sebastien…

— Simon Van Booy

“Now on a sloping meadow hours into a fresh day, he found himself a desperate man, struggling to free himself from the…

— Simon Van Booy

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

“That night she admitted her compulsion to escape. She was worried that if my father drowned, or I disappeared, she would be…

— Simon Van Booy

“See - this book belongs to you,' Hannah said sweetly. 'No young lady,' the birdman said. 'It belongs to you - but…

— Simon Van Booy

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

“She once told me that she loved me because I was the only thing she could hear. She can feel the vibration…

— Simon Van Booy

“I think music is what language once aspired to be. Music allows us to face God on our own terms because it…

— Simon Van Booy

“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

“Dave once asked me what blind people dream about. Mostly in sound and feeling, I replied. At night I fall in love…

— Simon Van Booy

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

“And you realize that you've finally grown up. That youth has finished. In its place you have knowledge, which you must carry.…

— Simon Van Booy

Relationships break down, because it's about self. But when you take the "I" out of it and you're like, how can I…

— Simon Van Booy

Coincidences mean you're on the right path.

— Simon Van Booy

We see in others what we want and what we fear.

— Simon Van Booy