Quotes from Simon Van Booy

I find hunger more interesting than accomplishment.

I read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.

Love between strangers takes only a few seconds and can last a whole life.

I think you can love someone and be infatuated with them, too. But infatuation is immediate, while the sort of love in the West is something you build with someone. It's a trust.

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

You were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.

Coincidences mean you're on the right path.

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

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.

He thinks I suffer from depression. But I'm just quiet. Solitude and depression are like swimming and drowning. In school many years ago, I learned that flowers sometimes unfold inside themselves.

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

The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.

Love between strangers takes only a few seconds and can last a whole life.

For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.

The passions we cannot control are the ones that define us.

Every moment is the paradox of now or never.

When small drops began to fall and darken the world in penny-shaped circles, no one around him scurried for cover. For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.

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

Sometimes I wake up and lie still enough to hear a petal drop from the vase of flowers. Sometimes I lie awake and wish there was someone to hear my falling.

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.

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

If there is such a thing as marriage, it takes place long before the ceremony; in a car on the way to the airport; or as a gray bedrooms fills with dawn, one lover watching the other; or as two strangers stand together in the rain with no bus in sight, arms weighed down with shopping bags. You don't know then. But later you realize - that was the moment.

I don't see the point of truth anymore, it causes just as much heartbreak as lying.

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.