Quote

Reading reassures us that no matter how alone we might feel, there are many others - spread as wide as history itself - who have felt the same way we have, who have occupied the rooms we find ourselves locked in at various points of our lives.

Simon Van Booy

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Simon Van Booy
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
Author
Novelist
Writer
Many
Reading
Occupied
Feel
Lives
Locked
Feels
History
Points
Way
Felt
Spread
Others
Wide
Find
Various
Might
Rooms
Matter
Alone
Reassures

More quotes by Simon Van Booy

Image
Some studies show that we're physically attracted, like animal attraction, to people that have a different immune system to us. So even though I love cologne, it's probably keeping me from finding a good mate.
Simon Van Booy
Image
It's tempting to imagine how we could hurt someone close, because it reminds us how fiercely we love them.
Simon Van Booy
Image
I read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.
Simon Van Booy
Image
They haven't made love for years but sleep holding hands
Simon Van Booy
Image
There are some lies that, under the right circumstances, are the only truth
Simon Van Booy
Image
Love between strangers takes only a few seconds and can last a whole life.
Simon Van Booy
Image
The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.
Simon Van Booy
Image
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
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Loneliness is like being the only person left alive in the universe, except that everyone else is still here.
Simon Van Booy
Image
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
Image
But say you do find the right people - how do you love them without smothering them?...How do you not suffocate them with all the love you've built up in their absence?
Simon Van Booy
Image
When Bach died some of his children sold his scores to the butcher they had decided the paper was more useful for wrapping meat. In a small village in Germany a father brought home a limp goose wrapped in paper that was covered with strange and beautiful symbols.
Simon Van Booy
Image
I think anyone can fall in love, if you're open and you're willing, but the real test is sustaining it after all the excitement has worn off.
Simon Van Booy
Image
I didn’t know who she was, but I had this fire inside me for someone I knew existed.
Simon Van Booy
Image
For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.
Simon Van Booy
Image
Everything that we love will, at some point, be taken away from us. If I think about everyone I love eventually being taken away from me by death, or simply by getting lost from each other in the world, it makes me value them much more now. And I'm much less likely to be indifferent. For me, indifference is the end of life.
Simon Van Booy
Image
Every moment is the paradox of now or never.
Simon Van Booy
Image
I suppose the key to a good life is to gently overlook the truth and hope that at any moment we can all be reborn.
Simon Van Booy