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Simon Van Booy Quotes

[I] read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.

Simon Van Booy

[I] read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.

Tags: bibliophiles, book, book lovers, books, reading, reading books

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

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...

Tags: language, legacy, people, writing

About Author
Simon Van Booy (born 1975) is an Anglo-American writer, currently living in the United States. His short story collection, Love Begins in Winter, won the 2009 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. He was a finalist for the 2011 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise.

It is the afternoon of my birthday, but still the morning of my life.

Simon Van Booy

It is the afternoon of my birthday, but still the morning of my life.

Tags: inspirational, youth

In his heart, some tiny piece of what hadn't happened would lodge.

Simon Van Booy

In his heart, some tiny piece of what hadn't happened would lodge.

Tags: longing

Grief is a room without doors - but somehow, with its tinsel and cliches, Christmas finds a way in.

Simon Van Booy

Grief is a room without doors - but somehow, with its tinsel and cliches, Christmas finds a way in.

Tags: grief, doors, way

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

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.

Tags: god, inspiration, life, music

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

Succes is really nothing more than the record of failure. To be successful means you must be willing to fail more than anyone else.

Tags: failure, simon van booy, succes

Single parenting is sometimes just a case of sitting around by yourself in mild despair, not knowing what to do.

Simon Van Booy

Single parenting is sometimes just a case of sitting around by yourself in mild despair, not knowing what to do.

Tags: yourself, not knowing

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

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...

Tags: wisdom, acceptance, world

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

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...

Tags: beautiful, joy, world

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

Libraries are the ultimate restaurants for brain food. I sleep better knowing there are libraries. I would take a bullet for a librarian.

Tags: sleep, brain, better

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

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.

Tags: alone, escape, hotel