It is the afternoon of my birthday, but still the morning of my life.

— Simon Van Booy

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

I wanted to explain that trusting is harder than being trusted.

— Simon Van Booy

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

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

Libraries are the ultimate restaurants for brain food. I sleep better knowing there are libraries. I would take a bullet for a librarian.

— Simon Van Booy

Life had called his name, and without thinking, he had stepped forward. He wondered if perhaps he was becoming the person he had always wanted to be.

— Simon Van Booy

Loneliness is like being the only person left alive in the universe, except that everyone else is still here.

— Simon Van Booy

Love is also a violence, and cannot be undone.

— Simon Van Booy

Love requires imagination more than experience.

— Simon Van Booy