“ Libraries are the ultimate restaurants for brain food. I sleep better knowing there are libraries. I would take a bullet for a librarian. Simon Van Booy
“ Grief is a room without doors - but somehow, with its tinsel and cliches, Christmas finds a way in. Simon Van Booy
“ Single parenting is sometimes just a case of sitting around by yourself in mild despair, not knowing what to do. Simon Van Booy
“ The joy of style lies not in how we look to other people, but in how we look to ourselves - and the most memorable and beautiful outfits are simply those that, in some rare moment of joy, we found the… Simon Van Booy
“ Succes is really nothing more than the record of failure. To be successful means you must be willing to fail more than anyone else. Simon Van Booy
“ Language allows us to reach out to people, to touch them with our innermost fears, hopes, disappointments, victories. To reach out to people we'll never meet.It's the greatest legacy you could ever le… Simon Van Booy
“ If you travel too often, you actually come face-to-face with what you're trying to escape. I feel like when I travel alone, sometimes it's like being locked in a hotel room with my own worst enemy. Simon Van Booy
“ In world mythology, there are countless examples of tragic characters whose greatest strength is also the source of their undoing. But the ancient Greeks and Romans also held the view that acceptance… Simon Van Booy
“ 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. Simon Van Booy
“ The very best and the very worst of life will come from [their] ability to love strangers. Simon Van Booy
“ She said that one day they would be very old, that the world would be a different place, but it would always be their world, and that the time apart now would be a nightmare from which they would reco… Simon Van Booy
“ Loneliness is like being the only person left alive in theuniverse, except that everyone else is still here. Simon Van Booy
“ Dave once asked me what blind people dream about. Mostly in sound and feeling, I replied. At night I fall in love with a voice, and then wake to a feeling of physical loss. Sometimes I close my eyes t… Simon Van Booy