53 Quotes & Sayings By 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 were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will. Simon Van Booy

Your grief is something to be admired — the pain of severance. A scar where something used to be. Simon Van Booy

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

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

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

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

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

In the end I didn't know who I was crying for, but it was something my body wanted to do, as though trying to digest grief. 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

Dave once asked me what blind people dream about. Mostly in sound and feeling, I replied. At night I fall in love with a voice, and then wake to a feeling of physical loss. Sometimes I close my eyes to a chorus of “Happy Birthday! ” The smell of cake and the sound of feet under the table. I awake in a body that’s too big. I also dream in motion and sensation. My father’s boat and the snore of the mast; the rough fabric of the safety harness and the rip of Velcro. The sun on my legs. And endless stretch of water impossible to imagine. Simon Van Booy

Sometimes I wake up and lie still enough to hear a petal drop from the vase of flowers. Sometimes I lie awake and wish there was someone to hear my falling. Simon Van Booy

Loneliness is like being the only person left alive in theuniverse, except that everyone else is still here. Simon Van Booy

Anyone who is desperate or alone will agree there is comfort in routine. 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

The present grows within the boundaries of the past. Simon Van Booy

You are hatching from the past. 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 anyone else. Simon Van Booy

Love requires imagination more than experience. Simon Van Booy

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

Sometimes, language is the sound of longing Simon Van Booy

The love of aman is like a drop of color into something clear. Simon Van Booy

She said that one day they would be very old, that the world would be a different place, but it would always be their world, and that the time apart now would be a nightmare from which they would recover - desperation buried under years of happiness. Simon Van Booy

The very best and the very worst of life will come from [their] ability to love strangers. 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

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

When he smiles, they mostly look away. But Martin likes to think they carry his smile for a few blocks — that even the smallest gesture is something grand. Simon Van Booy

We all have different lives, Martin believes — but in the end probably feel the same things, and regret the fear we thought might somehow sustain us. Simon Van Booy

Royal Young's writing is that rare blend of irony and beauty. Simon Van Booy

I was afraid of the sea when I was a girl. Someone said it went on forever and that frightened me. I wondered why my parents had chosen to live at the beginning and the end of the world. 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 those who are to come. Simon Van Booy

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

The beauty of artifacts is in how they reassure us we’renot the first to die. Simon Van Booy

He wanted to tell the baby that Paris was like a poem in stone. 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

Grief is a room without doors - but somehow, with its tinsel and cliches, Christmas finds a way in. 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

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

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

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, sometimes it's like being locked in a hotel room with my own worst enemy. Simon Van Booy