“The very best and the very worst of life will come from [their] ability to love strangers.” — 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
“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 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
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 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 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
“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
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 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
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
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
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“We all have different lives, Martin believes – but in the end probably feel the same things, and regret the fear we… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Life just swallows you up, doesn't it?Just swallows you up with its everyday things — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
“Life had called his name, and without thinking, he had stepped forward. He wondered if perhaps he was becoming the person he… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“He realized this early on, and realized too that what people think are their lives are merely its conditions. The truth is… — Simon Van Booy 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
Like surgeons trying to save a life, the conservators and preservers at New York City museums dedicate themselves to ensuring the longevity… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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