Simon Van Booy

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

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.

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.

Royal Young's writing is that rare blend of irony and beauty.

We all have different lives, Martin believes _ but in the end probably feel the same things, and regret the fear we thought might somehow sustain us.

Death is the most sophisticated form of beauty, and the most difficult to accept.

When he smiles, they mostly look away. But Martin likes to think they carry his smile for a few blocks _ that even the smallest gesture is something grand.

Love is also a violence, and cannot be undone.

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

I tried to convey to the boy how people__ lives are often altered by curved lines read slowly from paper, sand, or stone.

The very best and the very worst of life will come from [their] ability to love strangers.

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 recover - desperation buried under years of happiness.

The love of aman is like a drop of color into something clear.

Sometimes, language is the sound of longing

The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.

Love requires imagination more than experience.