Simon Booy Quotes & Sayings

There is little joy in those first moments of recognition- for the reality is that most encounters of such depth, most first glances of love come to nothing. And while the sincerity of that rare moment when your heart is bursting should be the signal to fling yourself on the ground in the path of this stranger, it's the depth of such sincerity that paralyses you, holds you back from the silence of phrases like "hello" and "good morning."
And as they pass, granting only single, torturous details like fingers upon the handle of an umbrella, or a hair pin bearing the weight of a twist, or a wool collar beaded with pearls of rain- there is only one thing you could ever say that would be true, that would make them stop walking and turn to face you.
But such a thing is unsayable. — Simon Van Booy

Shoes are a neutral blessing for us because feet generally aren't regarded as a place where the battle for self-esteem is won or lost. Feet don't change size when the body does through the natural ageing process. — Simon Van Booy

night was like a horse that tore through the forest of memory. As — Simon Van Booy

I think John Coltrane is one of the great American heroes, like Abraham Lincoln and Emily Dickinson. — Simon Van Booy

They haven't made love for years but sleep holding hands — 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

The beauty of artifacts is in how they reassure us we're
not the first to die. — Simon Van Booy

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

He still is a little boy waiting for someone to love him. — Simon Van Booy

Up here on this forgotten elbow of land, I have nothing to lose, and though I am more afraid now than I have ever been, I am relieved, I am unburdened, I am ascending. — 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 people we'll never meet.
It's the greatest legacy you could ever leave your children or your loved ones:
The history of how you felt. — Simon Van Booy

You are hatching from the past. — Simon Van Booy

The poet Emily Dickinson said that nature is a haunted house, while art is a house that tries to be haunted. She was born and died in the same room. — Simon Van Booy

Without memory, time would be no use to mankind, — Simon Van Booy

Love is like life but longer. — Simon Van Booy

We see in others what we want and what we fear. — Simon Van Booy

Absence makes the heart grows fonder, doesn't it? — Simon Van Booy

You can't explain love" he said out loud. "That's how it gets ruined. — 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, but that it's actually impossible. — Simon Van Booy

Dreams are the unfinished wings of our souls. — 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, or fear, or disappointment - we are all defined by something we can't change. — Simon Van Booy

I think living with the absence of someone we love is like living in front of a mountain from which a person - a speck in the distance, on some distance ridge - is perpetually waving. — Simon Van Booy

But sometimes, when confronted by something of unfathomable beauty, the bars of the cage around us begin to tremble. So I ran away to protect myself and remained a prisoner. — 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 so long upon nothing. — Simon Van Booy

Reading reassures us that no matter how alone we might feel, there are many others - spread as wide as history itself - who have felt the same way we have, who have occupied the rooms we find ourselves locked in at various points of our lives. — Simon Van Booy

I find hunger more interesting than accomplishment. — Simon Van Booy

That's truth, Harvey, not what's written on a piece of paper or in blood too small to see - but the memory of how it felt being together. — 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 drop a small imperfect reflection of a perfect moment. — Simon Van Booy

I want the sea to tell them I've found someone I want to marry and that I have to say good-bye - — Simon Van Booy

Before I met with my wife, I loved her very much. I didn't know who she was, but I had a fire inside me for someone I knew existed. Now that she hangs out stars, I still love her, though we speak another language altogether. — Simon Van Booy

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. — Simon Van Booy

My love for you will always be stronger than any truth. — Simon Van Booy

Love is life but longer — Simon Van Booy

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

Once I fell asleep on the grass and Michel filled my pockets with flowers. Today I am fifteen and I'm taking stock of my life. Even though I want to go to university and eventually buy Michel a red convertible, when I think of those Sundays in the Jardin des Plantes, I want to do things for people they will never forget. Maybe that's the best I can do in life. — Simon Van Booy

When a person is loved, they are granted the strength of all seas. — Simon Van Booy

I think anyone can fall in love, if you're open and you're willing, but the real test is sustaining it after all the excitement has worn off. — Simon Van Booy

The passions we cannot control are the ones that define us. — Simon Van Booy

Loneliness is like being the only person left alive in the
universe, except that everyone else is still here. — 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 of the strings through the carved vessel of her instrument, but I am inside her. I am a song soaked into each bone of her secret body where the world has not been able to wander. — Simon Van Booy

He felt that his life was nothing more than a light that would blink once in the history of the universe and then be forgotten. — Simon Van Booy

She once told me how she could feel the missing part of her arm- how she sometimes experienced the sensation of a hand- that it is possible to feel something without its physical presence.
Perhaps love is like this and we are all limbs of one giant intangible body. — Simon Van Booy

When I'm doing something, I do work hard at it. — Simon Van Booy

There are some lies that, under the right circumstances, are the only truth — 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 left with nothing. By running away at least she would have the joy of knowing she was missed. — 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 stone. — Simon Van Booy

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 Romans also held the view that acceptance is the beginning of wisdom. — Simon Van Booy

Lives are staged from within. — Simon Van Booy

But war only ends for those who have not been in one. — Simon Van Booy

Death ends a life but not a relationship. I — Simon Van Booy

the body is nothing but camouflage. — Simon Van Booy

The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence. — Simon Van Booy

Perhaps we were each allotted only a certain amount of love - enough for only an initial meeting - a serendipitous clumsiness. When it leaves to find others, the difficulty begins because we are faced with our humanness, our past, our very being. — Simon Van Booy

To love again, you must not discard what has happened to you, but take from it the strength you'll need to carry on. — Simon Van Booy

I never want her to know that fatherhood was the ambition of my life. — Simon Van Booy

Libraries are the ultimate restaurants for brain food. I sleep better knowing there are libraries. I would take a bullet for a librarian. — 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 be felt.
Beauty is the shadow of imperfection. — 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 face the coming night. — Simon Van Booy

I can't stop thinking that everybody is somebody's child. — Simon Van Booy

The joy of style lies not in how we look to other people, but in how we look to ourselves - and the most memorable and beautiful outfits are simply those that, in some rare moment of joy, we found the courage to share with the world. — Simon Van Booy

You are in the place that was meant for you. Everything had to be arranged like this to get you here. — Simon Van Booy

We cross from memory into imagination with only a vague awareness of change. — Simon Van Booy

Music is only a mystery to people who want it explained. Music and love are the same. — Simon Van Booy

I was always a writer, by which I mean I was always scribbling away, doing something with pen and paper. — Simon Van Booy

The damned would have to remain on earth in perpetual doubt. Once — Simon Van Booy

My old geography professor once told his class how the music, paintings, sculptures, and books of the world are mirror in which people see versions of themselves. — Simon Van Booy

I didn't know who she was, but I had this fire inside me for someone I knew existed. — Simon Van Booy

Life just swallows you up, doesn't it?Just swallows you up with its everyday things — Simon Van Booy

As a single parent, I had become tyrannical in order to survive, and anything I couldn't control caused me enormous anxiety. As a naturally untidy, disorganised man who never made lists or kept receipts, morphing into someone who could take care of a toddler on his own may have caused me to overcompensate a little. — Simon Van Booy

As an archaeologist, I've often wondered how we as a race keep going through all the misery. The answer is revealed: the potential for closeness with strangers. Floating — Simon Van Booy

In his heart, some tiny piece of what hadn't happened would lodge. — Simon Van Booy

When Bach died some of his children sold his scores to the butcher they had decided the paper was more useful for wrapping meat. In a small village in Germany a father brought home a limp goose wrapped in paper that was covered with strange and beautiful symbols. — Simon Van Booy

The key to a good life is to gently overlook the truth — Simon Van Booy

Language is like looking at a map of somewhere. Love is living there and surviving on the land. — Simon Van Booy

I think most people in the world are decent if they're not suffering. — Simon Van Booy

She told me that love is when a person introduces you to yourself for the first time. After — Simon Van Booy

Daddy, where's panda?" Gerard finds her stuffed panda and lays it next to her. She goes back to sleep immediately. In — 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 ago, I learned that flowers sometimes unfold inside themselves. — Simon Van Booy

We touched with a softness that pushed through the skin into memory, like arms plunged into a river - we could feel the weight of each other's stones. — Simon Van Booy

For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched. — Simon Van Booy

Sometimes, language is the sound of longing — Simon Van Booy

Never admit you have obsessive-compulsive disorder to someone who doesn't have it because they'll think you're crazy. But — Simon Van Booy

Many things are hard, Danny. Life comes at you in pieces sometimes too big to avoid — 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

Children are the closest we have to wisdom, and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them. — Simon Van Booy

Death is the most sophisticated form of beauty, and the most difficult to accept. — Simon Van Booy

Gerard feels stabbing love for his daughter. — 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 would prefer the inspired silence. We're all famous in our own hearts anyway. — Simon Van Booy

He realized this early on, and realized too that what people think are their lives are merely its conditions. The truth is closer than thought and lies buried in what we already know. — Simon Van Booy

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 more. — Simon Van Booy

She told me that while my father's body might be crushed under tons of black earth, the body is nothing but camouflage. She whispered that every soul is a river trying to find its way back to the sea. — Simon Van Booy

Dreamers conquered the world long ago. — Simon Van Booy

Without memory, he thought, man would be invincible — Simon Van Booy

Coincidences mean you're on the right path. — Simon Van Booy

He wanted to tell the baby that Paris was like a poem in stone. — Simon Van Booy

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

It is the afternoon of my birthday, but still the morning of my life. — Simon Van Booy

Love is also a violence, and cannot be undone. — Simon Van Booy

In that moment of recognition he is not consumed by a rushing sensation of love-quite simply a door opens to a room that has never gone away. The years apart were just years without one another. — Simon Van Booy

I would give everything, even memory - especially memory - if I could hold Leo again. The weight of his absence is the weight of the entire world. I — Simon Van Booy