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41 " 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. "
― Simon Van Booy , The Illusion of Separateness
42 " 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. "
― Simon Van Booy , The Coming and Going of Strangers
43 " In his heart, some tiny piece of what hadn't happened would lodge. "
― Simon Van Booy
44 " 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. "
45 " The beauty of artifacts is in how they reassure us we’renot the first to die. "
― Simon Van Booy , Everything Beautiful Began After
46 " He wanted to tell the baby that Paris was like a poem in stone. "
47 " You can’t explain love” he said out loud. “That’s how it gets ruined. "
― Simon Van Booy , Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories
48 " For those who are lost, there will always be cities that feellike home. "
49 " His father was an attorney in Paris. He met Sebastien’s mother on a train to Amsterdam. There were no other seats. They were forced together and found they preferred it. "
50 " El objetivo de escribir no es ser publicado, eso es algo hermoso, pero el objetivo es la verdad, la autenticidad. "
51 " 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
52 " He thinks I suffer from depression. But I’m just quiet. Solitude and depression are like swimming and drowning. In school many years ago, I learned that flowers sometimes unfold inside themselves. "
53 " Love between strangers takes only a few seconds and can last a whole life. "
54 " For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched. "
55 " The passions we cannot control are the ones that define us. "
56 " 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. "
57 " I want to do things for people they will never forget. Maybe that’s the best thing I can do in life. "
58 " For some people, life is the process of knocking through walls to get out. For others, it is the building of walls. "
59 " 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. "
60 " If there is such a thing as marriage, it takes place long before the ceremony; in a car on the way to the airport; or as a gray bedrooms fills with dawn, one lover watching the other; or as two strangers stand together in the rain with no bus in sight, arms weighed down with shopping bags. You don't know then. But later you realize - that was the moment. "