Simon Van Booy
Loneliness is like being the only person left alive in the universe, except that everyone else is still here. — Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After. (Harper Perennial; Original edition July 5, 2011)
Category: Anglo-American Culture
Simon Van Booy
Coincidences mean you’re on the right path. ― Simon Van Booy, Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories (Harper Perennial; 1st edition, May 12, 2009)
Simon Van Booy
Each year is like putting a new coat over all the old ones. Sometimes I reach into the pockets of my childhood and pull things out. — Simon Van Booy, from “Little Birds,” The Secret Lives of People in Love (Turtle Point Press, 2007)
Simon van Booy
We touched with a softness that pushed through the skin into memory, like arms plunged into a river — we could feel the weight of each other’s stones. — Simon van Booy, from “Conception,” The Secret Lives of People in Love: Stories. (Turtle Point Press; First Edition edition, May 1, 2007)
Simon Van Booy
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. ― Simon Van Booy, The Illusion of Separateness. (HarperCollins Publishers; 1st edition June 11, 2013)
Simon Van Booy
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. — Simon Van Booy, The Secret Lives of People in Love: The Still but Falling World. (Harper Perennial; 1 edition February 23, 2010)
The Vale of Soul-Making 