Simon Van Booy Quotes

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• 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

  Children, Disappointment, People

  Simon Van Booy (2009). “Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories”, HarperCollins

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• For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.

  Simon Van Booy

  Lonely, Rain, People

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• Hands have their own language.

  Simon Van Booy

  Hands, Language

  Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.106, Oneworld Publications

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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

  Memories, Disappointment, Thinking

  Simon van Booy (2013). “The Illusion of Separateness”, p.82, Oneworld Publications

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• The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.

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  Silence, Significant, Conversation

  Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.44, Oneworld Publications

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• 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

  Beautiful, Too Late, Wonder

  Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.321, Oneworld Publications

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• You were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.

  Simon Van Booy

  Pain, Ache, Shock

  Simon Van Booy (2014). “Everything Beautiful Began After”, p.237, Oneworld Publications

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• Whether you know it or not, we leave parts of ourselves wherever we go.

  Simon Van Booy

  Knows

  Simon Van Booy (2013). “The Illusion of Separateness”, p.68, Oneworld Publications

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• If there is such a thing as marriage, it takes place long before the ceremony; in a car on the way to the airport; or as a gray bedrooms fills with dawn, one lover watching the other; or as two strangers stand together in the rain with no bus in sight, arms weighed down with shopping bags. You don't know then. But later you realize - that was the moment.

  Simon Van Booy

  Rain, Airports, Sight

  Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.50, Oneworld Publications

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• It’s the greatest legacy you could ever leave your children or your loved ones: the history of how you felt.

  Simon Van Booy

  Children, Legacy, Loved Ones

  Simon Van Booy (2009). “Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories”, HarperCollins

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• For some people, life is the process of knocking through walls to get out. For others, it is the building of walls.

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  Wall, People, Life Is

  Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.271, Oneworld Publications

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• Life can unmoor so many feelings; it is a relief we sleep through it.
  Night unravels the day and reinvents it for the first time.
  We may mean nothing to time, but to each other we are kings and queens, and the world is a wild benevolent garden filled with chance meetings and unexplained departures.

  Simon Van Booy

  Queens, Kings, Mean

  Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.272, Oneworld Publications

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• Every moment is the paradox of now or never.

  Simon Van Booy

  Now Or Never, Moments, Paradox

  Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.53, Oneworld Publications

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• I think we keep these moments of rejection and acceptance very close. I think we carry them always, like cracked shells from which a part of us once hatched.

  Simon Van Booy

  Acceptance, Thinking, Rejection

  Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.322, Oneworld Publications

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• 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

  Children, Adults, Finals

  Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.80, Oneworld Publications

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

  Simon Van Booy

  Understanding, Helping, Happened

  Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.27, Oneworld Publications

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• Love between strangers takes only a few seconds and can last a whole life.

  Simon Van Booy

  Love Is, Lasts, Stranger

  Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.161, Oneworld Publications

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• Actually, years mean nothing. It's what's inside them.

  Simon Van Booy

  Mean, Years

  Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.18, Oneworld Publications

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

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  Needs, Happened, Love Again

  Simon Van Booy (2014). “Everything Beautiful Began After”, p.325, Oneworld Publications

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• I read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.

  Simon Van Booy

  Book, Thinking, Should

  Simon Van Booy (2009). “Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories”, HarperCollins

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• When I was in my early twenties, I fell in love at least 20 times a day. You have to be with someone where you think: if the world was full of people like you, I could not be monogamous. As you get older, you get to know yourself a little more. The older you get, the more you realize what you need. And you also realize how your choice in relationships is influenced by how you grew up. Now I feel like I've explored the dynamic of how I grew up, and I'm free to find someone who's really going to be a wonderful companion.

  Simon Van Booy

  Thinking, People, Choices

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There are some lies that, under the right circumstances, are the only truth

  Simon Van Booy

  Lying, Circumstances

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• For those who are lost, there will always be cities that feel
  like home.

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  Home, Cities, Lost

  Simon van Booy (2014). “Everything Beautiful Began After”, p.16, Oneworld Publications

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• 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

  Lonely, Sea, Should

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• Music is only a mystery to people who want it explained. Music and love are the same.

  Simon Van Booy

  People, And Love, Want

  Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.27, Oneworld Publications

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