Quotes from Simon Van Booy

We all have different lives, Martin believes - but in the end probably feel the same things, and regret the fear we thought might somehow sustain us.

Age is a plow that unearths the true nature of things. But only after the moment has passed and we are powerless to change anything, are we granted wisdom. As though we are living backward.

It was the first of many times he would try to remember her face, the forst of many times he would look for someone and not see them- search for someone whose absence defined him.

Gerard feels stabbing love for his daughter.

As they drove back to Greenpoint from Long Island, Drake looked at the other drivers on the Long Island Expressway and realized that anyone could be anyone's father, that anyone could love anyone under certain circumstances, and that life is a museum of small accidents.

praying for someone is a way to love them without ever having to know them. I

The damned would have to remain on earth in perpetual doubt. Once

Hope is the greatest of all gifts.

I would give everything, even memory—especially memory—if I could hold Leo again. The weight of his absence is the weight of the entire world. I

How could two people know each other so intimately without have told the old stories. You get to an age where the stories don't matter anymore, and the stories once told so passionately become a tide that never quite reaches the point of being said. And there is no such thing as fate, but there are no accidents either.

Daddy, where's panda?" Gerard finds her stuffed panda and lays it next to her. She goes back to sleep immediately. In

Never admit you have obsessive-compulsive disorder to someone who doesn't have it because they'll think you're crazy. But

Dreams are the unfinished wings of our souls.

Alzheimer's is like having your entire life written out in chalk and then washed over by the sea at every tide.

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

The telephone about to ring.

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

But it takes a very special kind of genius to see the crimes that hide from us in plain sight.

But knowledge felt useless to him in that moment, like a key without anything to open.

Slow, fast, makes no difference. God turns the world at one speed.

it's hard to be gay in a small place like Morano, even though it's beautiful and the streets smell of wood smoke, and you can go anywhere at anytime and you'll never be turned away by anyone. You must understand, it's a question of practicality, not a question of acceptance. Times have changed. In Morano, if you're loved, everything else falls away.

They haven't made love for years but sleep holding hands

There are some lies that, under the right circumstances, are the only truth

I suppose the key to a good life is to gently overlook the truth and hope that at any moment we can all be reborn.