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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
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We cross from memory into imagination with only a vague awareness of change.Simon Van Booy
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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
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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
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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
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Anyone who is desperate or alone will agree there is comfort in routine.Simon Van Booy
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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
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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
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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
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Love is also a violence, and cannot be undone.Simon Van Booy
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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
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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
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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
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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
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He wanted to tell the baby that Paris was like a poem in stone.Simon Van Booy