Simon Van Booy
Simon Van Booy
Simon Van Booy is a British-American writer who lives in the United States. He grew up in rural Wales, but has lived in Kentucky, Paris, Athens, New York City and the Hamptons. Love Begins in Winter won the 2009 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionWriter
lonely rain people
For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.
pain ache shock
You were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.
hands language
Hands have their own language.
queens kings mean
Life can unmoor so many feelings; it is a relief we sleep through it. Night unravels the day and reinvents it for the first time. We may mean nothing to time, but to each other we are kings and queens, and the world is a wild benevolent garden filled with chance meetings and unexplained departures.
sleep hands years
They haven't made love for years but sleep holding hands
beautiful too-late wonder
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.
acceptance thinking rejection
I think we keep these moments of rejection and acceptance very close. I think we carry them always, like cracked shells from which a part of us once hatched.
love-is lasts stranger
Love between strangers takes only a few seconds and can last a whole life.
writing royal irony
Royal Young's writing is that rare blend of irony and beauty.
silence significant conversation
The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.
helping happened
Music helps us understand where we have come from but, more importantly, what has happened to us.
needs love-again happened
To love again, you must not discard what has happened to you, but take from it the strength you'll need to carry on.
sound language longing
Sometimes, language is the sound of longing
want
We see in others what we want and what we fear.