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 More Quotes by Simon Van Booy More Quotes From 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 clumsinessenoughpast The beauty of artifacts is in how they reassure us we’re Simon Van Booy artifactsdiesfirsts 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 reflectiondrinkingwater 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 lonelyshouldsea I want to feel it somehow happened like that because things happen for a reason. I want to believe this more than anything because if it were just an accident, then God must have died before he could finish the world. Simon Van Booy wantbelieveworld Actually, years mean nothing. It's what's inside them. Simon Van Booy meanyears Sometimes, language is the sound of longing Simon Van Booy languagesoundsometimes We see in others what we want and what we fear. Simon Van Booy want I think music is what language once aspired to be. Music allows us to face God on our own terms because it reaches beyond life. Simon Van Booy languagefacesthinking Life just swallows you up, doesn't it?Just swallows you up with its everyday things Simon Van Booy everyday-thingseveryday 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 bodygrieftrying You can't put a price on the rituals of love, because you never know what will happen next. I suppose fear is part of the excitement and we can't have one without the other. Simon Van Booy excitementnextlove-is 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 readingwayrooms Even if you have loved only once in your life, you're ruined. Simon Van Booy ruinedifs It's true the people we meet shape us. But the people we don't meet shape us also, often more because we have imagined them so vividly. There are people we yearn for but never seem to meet. Simon Van Booy shapesseemspeople 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 beginningstrengthwisdomworld 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 shoesbattlechangeblessing 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 daychildparentworld I was always a writer, by which I mean I was always scribbling away, doing something with pen and paper. Simon Van Booy pensomethingdoingalways Both my parents were very supportive of me in whatever I wanted to do. Simon Van Booy whateverparentsveryme
