Simon Van Booy

Your grief is something to be admired _ the pain of severance. A scar where something used to be.

You were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.

But those who seek only reassurance from life will never be more than tourists__eeing everything and trying to possess what can only be felt.Beauty is the shadow of imperfection.

Life had called his name, and without thinking, he had stepped forward. He wondered if perhaps he was becoming the person he had always wanted to be.

I wanted to explain that trusting is harder than being trusted.

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

Every moment is the paradox of now or never.

...I like stories very much,_ the priest said. __hey help me understand myself 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.

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 courage to share with the world.

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

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 is the beginning of wisdom.

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

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

He wanted to tell the baby that Paris was like a poem in stone.

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 leave your children or your loved ones:The history of how you felt.

The beauty of artifacts is in how they reassure us we__enot the first to die.

He might be famous (local newspaper or television) for finding it, true__ut if fame takes away the thing it celebrates, then Sebastien would prefer the inspired silence. We__e all famous in our own hearts anyway.