Simon Van Booy
Simon Van Booy
Simon Van Booy is a British-American writer who lives in the United States. He grew up in rural Wales, but has lived in Kentucky, Paris, Athens, New York City and the Hamptons. Love Begins in Winter won the 2009 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award...
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first-love men flames
Could it be that first love was the only true love? And that after those first fires had been doused or burned out, men and women chose whom they would love based on worldly needs, and then reenacted the rituals and feelings of that first pure experience - nursed the flames that once burned of their own accord
ruined ifs
Even if you have loved only once in your life, you're ruined.
people want never-forget
I want to do things for people they will never forget. Maybe that’s the best thing I can do in life.
lying causes
I don’t see the point of truth anymore, it causes just as much heartbreak as lying.
past clumsiness enough
Perhaps we were each allotted only a certain amount of love - enough for only an initial meeting - a serendipitous clumsiness. When it leaves to find others, the difficulty begins because we are faced with our humanness, our past, our very being.
now-or-never moments paradox
Every moment is the paradox of now or never.
lonely sea should
Should you ever feel too lonely...listen for the roar of the sea- for in it are all those who've been and all those who are to come.
wanted harder trusted
I wanted to explain that trusting is harder than being trusted.
mean years
Actually, years mean nothing. It's what's inside them.
sound language longing
Sometimes, language is the sound of longing
long-ago long dreamer
Dreamers conquered the world long ago.
sophisticated accepting form
Death is the most sophisticated form of beauty, and the most difficult to accept.
loneliness alive persons
Loneliness is like being the only person left alive in the universe, except that everyone else is still here.
home cities lost
For those who are lost, there will always be cities that feel like home.