Quotes by Simon Van Booy

I was afraid of the sea when I was a girl. Someone said it went on forever and that frightened me. I wondered why my parents had chosen to live at the beginning and the end of the world.

Should you ever feel too lonely...listen for the roar of the sea- for in it are all those whove been and all those who are to come.

In his heart, some tiny piece of what hadnt happened would lodge.

He might be famous (local newspaper or television) for finding it, true—but if fame takes away the thing it celebrates, then Sebastien would prefer the inspired silence. We’re all famous in our own hearts anyway.

The beauty of artifacts is in how they reassure us we’renot the first to die.

He wanted to tell the baby that Paris was like a poem in stone.

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

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

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.

Libraries are the ultimate restaurants for brain food. I sleep better knowing there are libraries. I would take a bullet for a librarian.

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.

If you travel too often, you actually come face-to-face with what youre trying to escape. I feel like when I travel alone, sometimes its like being locked in a hotel room with my own worst enemy.

“Every moment is the paradox of now or never.”

“Death is the most sophisticated form of beauty, and the most difficult to accept.”

“I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment - we are all defined by something we can’t change.”