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Simon Van Booy Quotes

Total quotes: 20
“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, The Secret Lives of People in Love
Tagged: Life, Growth, Career
“I wonder if things can happen too early or too late or if everything happens at exactly the right time. If so, how sad and beautiful.”
— Simon Van Booy, The Secret Lives of People in Love
Tagged: happenings, occurrences, right time, Timing, sad and beautiful
“I want to do things for people they will never forget. Maybe that’s the best thing I can do in life.”
— Simon Van Booy, The Secret Lives of People in Love
Tagged: purpose, Life, Goodness
“I wonder how our bodies will change as we get old. I wonder how we’ll feel about things that haven’t happened to us yet.”
— Simon Van Booy, The Illusion Of Separateness
Tagged: Bodies, Human Body, Getting Old
“It’s tempting to imagine how we could hurt someone close, because it reminds us how fiercely we love them.”
— Simon Van Booy, The Secret Lives of People in Love
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Irony
“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, Everything Beautiful Began After
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Falling In Love, strength, Trust
“You were unsure which pain is worse: the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.”
— Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After
Tagged: Uncertainty, Pain, Wose, Past, Future, Possibility, chances
“But how do you find the right people-how do you love without smothering them? How do you not suffocate them with all the love you’ve built up in their absence?”
— Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After
Tagged: Love, Curiosity, Question, Absence
“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, The Illusion Of Separateness
Tagged: Life, Happiness, forgiveness, Peace, Fear, Change, Acceptance, Past
“Every day is a masterpiece, even if it crushes you.”
— Simon Van Booy, The Illusion Of Separateness
Tagged: Life, struggles
“Love is also a violence, and cannot be undone.”
— Simon Van Booy, The Illusion Of Separateness
Tagged: Love
“The book of their love would be a chapter in her life.”
— Simon Van Booy, The Illusion Of Separateness
Tagged: Love
“Coincidences mean you're on the right path.”
— Simon Van Booy, Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories
“We see in others what we want and what we fear.”
— Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After: A Novel
Tagged: Fear, Desire, Perception, Expectation
“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, Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories
Tagged: Language, Verbal, Expressing opinions, expressing feelings
“Solitude and depression are like swimming and drowning. In school many years ago, I learned that flowers sometimes unfold inside themselves.”
— Simon Van Booy, Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories
Tagged: Solitude, Depression
“Love between strangers takes only a few seconds and can last a whole life.”
— Simon Van Booy, Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories
Tagged: Stranger, Love
“You are hatching from the past.”
— Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After: A Novel
Tagged: Don't Go Back, The Past
“The weight of his absence is like the weight of the entire world.”
— Simon Van Booy, The Secret Lives of People in Love
Tagged: Absence, lost, Gone, Missing Someone
“…Even if you have loved only once in your life, you’re ruined.”
— Simon Van Booy, The Secret Lives of People in Love
Tagged: Love, Once, Ruined
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