Best Simon Van Booy Sayings
- It’s the greatest legacy you could ever leave your children or your loved ones: the history of how you felt. Children
- When you give something up, you need to fill the space where it used to be, and you understand the landscape in yourself a bit… Bit
- Everything that we love will, at some point, be taken away from us. If I think about everyone I love eventually being taken away from… Death
- I was always a writer, by which I mean I was always scribbling away, doing something with pen and paper. Paper
- Both my parents were very supportive of me in whatever I wanted to do. Both
- I was living in a large apartment with no furniture, just a typewriter, and because I had nothing else to do with my time, it… Apartment
- Grief is a room without doors - but somehow, with its tinsel and cliches, Christmas finds a way in. Christmas
- Single parenting is sometimes just a case of sitting around by yourself in mild despair, not knowing what to do. Case
- There are times in life when language fails us, when everything that needs to be said can be expressed only by saying nothing at all. All
- I think John Coltrane is one of the great American heroes, like Abraham Lincoln and Emily Dickinson. Abraham
- Libraries are the ultimate restaurants for brain food. I sleep better knowing there are libraries. I would take a bullet for a librarian. Better
- I once saved someone from drowning. Drowning
- I find hunger more interesting than accomplishment. Accomplishment
- In world mythology, there are countless examples of tragic characters whose greatest strength is also the source of their undoing. But the ancient Greeks and… Acceptance
- This is why fashion is such a magical part of our lives, for it inspires our decisions without dictating them; it sets the theme but… Aesthetic
- The joy of style lies not in how we look to other people, but in how we look to ourselves - and the most memorable… Beautiful
- Writers are often alone when they work. Hours pass in silence as one long moment; light fades as day turns back to face the coming… Alone
- Like surgeons trying to save a life, the conservators and preservers at New York City museums dedicate themselves to ensuring the longevity of works of… Art