Simon Van Booy

He realized this early on, and realized to 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

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

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

... I like stories very much,” the priest said. “They help me understand myself better.

Simon Van Booy

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

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

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

[I] read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.

Simon Van Booy

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

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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