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...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionWriter
firsts artifacts dies
The beauty of artifacts is in how they reassure us we’re not the first to die.
lonely rain fall
When small drops began to fall and darken the world in penny-shaped circles, no one around him scurried for cover. For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.
knows
Whether you know it or not, we leave parts of ourselves wherever we go.
mean destiny path
Coincidences mean you're on the right path.
passion
The passions we cannot control are the ones that define us.
imperfection trying shadow
But those who seek only reassurance from life will never be more than tourists—seeing everything and trying to possess what can only be felt. Beauty is the shadow of imperfection.
love-you people absence
But say you do find the right people - how do you love them without smothering them?...How do you not suffocate them with all the love you've built up in their absence?
imagination
Love requires imagination more than experience.
people shapes seems
It's true the people we meet shape us. But the people we don't meet shape us also, often more because we have imagined them so vividly. There are people we yearn for but never seem to meet.
mistake trying rooms
When somebody leaves this plane—or, if you like, goes into another room—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.
thinking faces language
I think music is what language once aspired to be. Music allows us to face God on our own terms because it reaches beyond life.
silence significant conversation
The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.
needs love-again happened
To love again, you must not discard what has happened to you, but take from it the strength you'll need to carry on.
helping happened
Music helps us understand where we have come from but, more importantly, what has happened to us.