Life just swallows you up, doesn't it?Just swallows you up with its everyday things — Simon Van Booy Everyday Copy Share Image
The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence. — Simon Van Booy Communication Copy Share Image
“He wanted to tell the baby that Paris was like a poem in stone.” — Simon Van Booy Baby Copy Share Image
You were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will. — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
Both my parents were very supportive of me in whatever I wanted to do. — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
I think John Coltrane is one of the great American heroes, like Abraham Lincoln and Emily Dickinson. — Simon Van Booy Abraham Copy Share Image
Libraries are the ultimate restaurants for brain food. I sleep better knowing there are libraries. I would take a bullet for a… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
“Perhaps he had been waiting all along for someone to knock him down and allow him to drop the weight he’d so… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
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 Faces Copy Share Image
“Then, breathing slow, and almost deliberately, stops. But for a moment the old man doesn’t realize he is dead. He can feel… — Simon Van Booy Death Copy Share Image
“But sometimes, when confronted by something of unfathomable beauty, the bars of the cage around us begin to tremble. So I ran… — Simon Van Booy Beauty Copy Share Image
“Everything you are afraid of will never happen. It’s the events you cannot conceive of that happen.” — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
“...he felt that his life was nothing more than a light that would blink once in the history of the universe and… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
Some studies show that we're physically attracted, like animal attraction, to people that have a different immune system to us. So even… — Simon Van Booy Animal Copy Share Image
If there is such a thing as marriage, it takes place long before the ceremony; in a car on the way to… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
Life can unmoor so many feelings; it is a relief we sleep through it. Night unravels the day and reinvents it for… — 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
In world mythology, there are countless examples of tragic characters whose greatest strength is also the source of their undoing. But the… — Simon Van Booy Acceptance Copy Share Image
Language allows us to reach out to people, to touch them with our innermost fears, hopes, disappointments, victories. To reach out to… — Simon Van Booy Children Copy Share Image
“When Bach died some of his children sold his scores to the butcher they had decided the paper was more useful for… — Simon Van Booy Beautiful Copy Share Image
When somebody leaves this plane—or, if you like, goes into another room—those left behind sometimes try and stop loving—but this is a… — 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
“. . . a stiff breeze had claimed Athens, filling bedrooms, rearranging the tops of desks, touching everything and nothing, as if… — Simon Van Booy Athens Copy Share Image
I wonder if things can happen too early or too late or if everything happens at exactly the right time. If so,… — Simon Van Booy Beautiful Copy Share Image
“It had rained, she said, and I imagined the beads of small water on the windshield like a thousand eyes, or each… — Simon Van Booy Perfect moment Copy Share Image
If you travel too often, you actually come face-to-face with what you're trying to escape. I feel like when I travel alone,… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
Language is like drinking from one's own reflection in still water. We only take from it what we are at the time. — Simon Van Booy Drinking 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
I suppose the key to a good life is to gently overlook the truth and hope that at any moment we can… — Simon Van Booy Good life Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I wake up and lie still enough to hear a petal drop from the vase of flowers. Sometimes I lie awake… — Simon Van Booy Flowers Copy Share Image
I was living in a large apartment with no furniture, just a typewriter, and because I had nothing else to do with… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
The most frustrating part of trying to direct everything is not that it alienates you from people who genuinely want to help,… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
There are times in life when language fails us, when everything that needs to be said can be expressed only by saying… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
Writers are often alone when they work. Hours pass in silence as one long moment; light fades as day turns back to… — Simon Van Booy Alone Copy Share Image
I was always a writer, by which I mean I was always scribbling away, doing something with pen and paper. — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
Single parenting is sometimes just a case of sitting around by yourself in mild despair, not knowing what to do. — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
When you give something up, you need to fill the space where it used to be, and you understand the landscape in… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
