Quotes from Simon Van Booy

Lives are staged from within.

I think most people in the world are decent if they're not suffering.

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

I remember the bed and the crisp, yellowing sheets. I wondered how many people had slept in it. I marveled at how the pillow, like a small theater, had staged countless dreams.

Reading reassures us that no matter how alone we might feel, there are many others - spread as wide as history itself - who have felt the same way we have, who have occupied the rooms we find ourselves locked in at various points of our lives.

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

I can't stop thinking that everybody is somebody's child.

night was like a horse that tore through the forest of memory. As

adrift in private thoughts, anchored to the world by unfamiliar shadows.

Many things are hard, Danny. Life comes at you in pieces sometimes too big to avoid

But sometimes you have to break rules because nothing is perfect.

Thomas realized he had changed, that he was not the same man, but like everyone else, he was the result of an accident that had once taken place between nature and chance. An

I want the sea to carry my unceasing love to their still bodies,

I barely remember her, but I am still in love with her ghost.

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

Before I met with my wife, I loved her very much. I didn't know who she was, but I had a fire inside me for someone I knew existed. Now that she hangs out stars, I still love her, though we speak another language altogether.

Pain is proof of something worthwhile.

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.

I never want her to know that fatherhood was the ambition of my life.

Royal Young's writing is that rare blend of irony and beauty.

My love for you will always be stronger than any truth.

Those left behind sometimes try and stop loving- but this is a mistake, because even if you have loved only once in your life, you're ruined.

In his heart, some tiny piece of what hadn't happened would lodge.

The poet Emily Dickinson said that nature is a haunted house, while art is a house that tries to be haunted. She was born and died in the same room.