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

— Simon Van Booy

Royal Young's writing is that rare blend of irony and beauty.

— Simon Van Booy

She said that one day they would be very old, that the world would be a different place, but it would always be their world, and that the time apart now would be a nightmare from which they would recover - desperation buried under years of happiness.

— Simon Van Booy

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

Single parenting is sometimes just a case of sitting around by yourself in mild despair, not knowing what to do.

— Simon Van Booy

Sometimes I wake up and lie still enough to hear a petal drop from the vase of flowers. Sometimes I lie awake and wish there was someone to hear my falling.

— Simon Van Booy

Sometimes, language is the sound of longing

— Simon Van Booy

Success is really nothing more than the record of failure. To be successful means you must be willing to fail more than anyone else.

— Simon Van Booy

That's truth, Harvey, not what's written on a piece of paper or in blood too small to see - but the memory of how it felt being together.

— Simon Van Booy

The beauty of artifacts is in how they reassure us we’rent the first to die.

— Simon Van Booy