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61 " I don’t see the point of truth anymore, it causes just as much heartbreak as lying. "
― Simon Van Booy , The Secret Lives of People in Love
62 " To love again, you must not discard what has happened to you, but take from it the strength you'll need to carry on. "
― Simon Van Booy , Everything Beautiful Began After
63 " Dreamers conquered the world long ago. "
64 " I think we keep these moments of rejection and acceptance very close. I think we carry them always, like cracked shells from which a part of us once hatched. "
65 " We see in others what we want and what we fear. "
66 " Whether you know it or not, we leave parts of ourselves wherever we go. "
― Simon Van Booy , The Illusion of Separateness
67 " Every day is a masterpiece, even if it crushes you. "
68 " It had rained, she said, and I imagined the beads of small water on the windshield like a thousand eyes, or each drop a small imperfect reflection of a perfect moment. "
69 " I didn’t know who she was, but I had this fire inside me for someone I knew existed. "
70 " When it rains, even the most insignificant puddle is a map of the universe. "
71 " Love is life but longer "
72 " We had spent only a few weeks together, five years ago, but when you finally meet the person who in daydreams you had sculpted without words, the transparency of time becomes the color of hair, and shapeless years become the shape of lips. "
73 " There is little joy in those first moments of recognition- for the reality is that most encounters of such depth, most first glances of love come to nothing. And while the sincerity of that rare moment when your heart is bursting should be the signal to fling yourself on the ground in the path of this stranger, it's the depth of such sincerity that paralyses you, holds you back from the silence of phrases like "hello" and "good morning."And as they pass, granting only single, torturous details like fingers upon the handle of an umbrella, or a hair pin bearing the weight of a twist, or a wool collar beaded with pearls of rain- there is only one thing you could ever say that would be true, that would make them stop walking and turn to face you.But such a thing is unsayable. "
74 " Maybe happiness is just finding the right people at the right time.""But how do you find them?"..."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?""You don't. And that's the whole point - it works in a way it just wouldn't with other people. "
75 " 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. "
76 " 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. "
77 " Absence makes the heart grows fonder, doesn't it? "
― Simon Van Booy
78 " Hands have their own language. "
79 " Music is only a mystery to people who want it explained. Music and love are the same. "
― Simon Van Booy , Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories
80 " . . . truth is just a lie that everyone believes. "