Quotes from Simon Van Booy

I once saved someone from drowning.

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

Every parent, no matter how cultured or sophisticated, will one day succumb to a child's pleas to visit Walt Disney World Resort.

I was always a writer, by which I mean I was always scribbling away, doing something with pen and paper.

Both my parents were very supportive of me in whatever I wanted to do.

It's the greatest legacy you could ever leave your children or your loved ones: the history of how you felt.

For those who are lost, there will always be cities that feel like home.

Where are people going? I wonder what they hope will happen and what they are afraid of? For me it's the same thing and has to do with being loved.

It is the afternoon of my birthday, but still the morning of my life.

There are times in life when language fails us, when everything that needs to be said can be expressed only by saying nothing at all.

For some people, life is the process of knocking through walls to get out. For others, it is the building of walls.

When you give something up, you need to fill the space where it used to be, and you understand the landscape in yourself a bit more.

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.

To love again, you must not discard what has happened to you, but take from it the strength you'll need to carry on.

I think music is what language once aspired to be. Music allows us to face God on our own terms because it reaches beyond life.

The most frustrating part of trying to direct everything is not that it alienates you from people who genuinely want to help, but that it's actually impossible.

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.

Life just swallows you up, doesn't it?Just swallows you up with its everyday things

I want to do things for people they will never forget. Maybe that's the best thing I can do in life.

Even if you have loved only once in your life, you're ruined.

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.

When I'm doing something, I do work hard at it.

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

Language is like drinking from one's own reflection in still water. We only take from it what we are at the time.