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.”

“He realized this early on, and realized too 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.”

“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.”

“Coincidences mean you're on the right path.”

“I tried to convey to the boy how people’s lives are often altered by curved lines read slowly from paper, sand, or stone.”

“I once saved someone from drowning.”

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

“Anyone who is desperate or alone will agree there is comfort in routine.”

“Death is the most sophisticated form of beauty, and the most difficult to accept.”

“You are hatching from the past.”

“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.”

“The love of aman is like a drop of color into something clear.”

“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.”

“Grief is a room without doors - but somehow, with its tinsel and cliches, Christmas finds a way in.”

“Sometimes, language is the sound of longing”

“Love requires imagination more than experience.”

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

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

“When a person is loved, they are granted the strength of all seas.”

“The joy of style lies not in how we look to other people, but in how we look to ourselves - and the most memorable and beautiful outfits are simply those that, in some rare moment of joy, we found the courage to share with the world.”