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

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

“When he smiles, they mostly look away. But Martin likes to think they carry his smile for a few blocks – that…

— Simon Van Booy

Succes is really nothing more than the record of failure. To be successful means you must be willing to fail more than…

— Simon Van Booy

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

Should you ever feel too lonely...listen for the roar of the sea- for in it are all those who've been and all…

— Simon Van Booy

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

We touched with a softness that pushed through the skin into memory, like arms plunged into a river - we could feel…

— 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

“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

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

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

“Music is only a mystery to people who want it explained. Music and love are the same.”

— Simon Van Booy

Death is the most sophisticated form of beauty, and the most difficult to accept.

— Simon Van Booy

Hands have their own language.

— 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

Music helps us understand where we have come from but, more importantly, what has happened to us.

— 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

Single parenting is sometimes just a case of sitting around by yourself in mild despair, not knowing what to do.

— Simon Van Booy

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

— Simon Van Booy

“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

Every parent, no matter how cultured or sophisticated, will one day succumb to a child's pleas to visit Walt Disney World Resort.

— Simon Van Booy

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

Athens is the birthplace of modern tragedy. In the Greek tragic plays, the tableau of the characters would become a statue, like…

— 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