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
Simon Van Booy quotes about
lonely rain people
For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.
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.
love-is lasts stranger
Love between strangers takes only a few seconds and can last a whole life.
helping happened
Music helps us understand where we have come from but, more importantly, what has happened to us.
sound language longing
Sometimes, language is the sound of longing
imperfection trying shadow
But those who seek only reassurance from life will never be more than tourists—seeing everything and trying to possess what can only be felt. Beauty is the shadow of imperfection.
sophisticated accepting form
Death is the most sophisticated form of beauty, and the most difficult to accept.
imagination
Love requires imagination more than experience.
love-is next excitement
You can't put a price on the rituals of love, because you never know what will happen next. I suppose fear is part of the excitement and we can't have one without the other.
love-is land maps
Language is like looking at a map of somewhere. Love is living there and surviving on the land.
first-love men flames
Could it be that first love was the only true love? And that after those first fires had been doused or burned out, men and women chose whom they would love based on worldly needs, and then reenacted the rituals and feelings of that first pure experience - nursed the flames that once burned of their own accord
ruined ifs
Even if you have loved only once in your life, you're ruined.
lonely sea should
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.
drinking reflection water
Language is like drinking from one's own reflection in still water. We only take from it what we are at the time.