01UndatedI 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 / quote ↗
02UndatedChildren are the closest we have to wisdom, and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.Simon Van Booy / quote ↗
03UndatedI think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment - we are all defined by something we can’t change.Simon Van Booy / quote ↗
04UndatedDeath is the most sophisticated form of beauty, and the most difficult to accept.Simon Van Booy / quote ↗
05UndatedLanguage 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.Simon Van Booy / quote ↗
06Undated...I like stories very much,” the priest said. “They help me understand myself better.Simon Van Booy / quote ↗
08Undated[I] read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.Simon Van Booy / quote ↗
10UndatedLife 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.Simon Van Booy / quote ↗
11UndatedBut those who seek only reassurance from life will never be more than tourists—seeing everything and trying to possess what can only be felt.Beauty is the shadow of imperfection.Simon Van Booy / quote ↗
12UndatedYou were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.Simon Van Booy / quote ↗
13UndatedYour grief is something to be admired – the pain of severance. A scar where something used to be.Simon Van Booy / quote ↗
14UndatedMusic helps us understand where we have come from but, more importantly, what has happened to us.Simon Van Booy / quote ↗
15UndatedWe cross from memory into imagination with only a vague awareness of change.Simon Van Booy / quote ↗
19UndatedIn the end I didn't know who I was crying for, but it was something my body wanted to do, as though trying to digest grief.Simon Van Booy / quote ↗
20UndatedThat's truth, Harvey, not what's written on a piece of paper or in blood too small to see - but the memory of how it felt being together.Simon Van Booy / quote ↗
21UndatedDave 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 to a chorus of “Happy Birthday!” The smell of cake and the sound of feet under the table. I awake in a body that’s too big. I also dream in motion and sensation. My father’s boat and the snore of the mast; the rough fabric of the safety harness and the rip of Velcro. The sun on my legs. And endless stretch of water impossible to imagine.Simon Van Booy / quote ↗
22UndatedSometimes I wake up and lie still enough to hear a petal drop from the vase of flowers. Sometimes I lie awake and wish there was someone to hear my falling.Simon Van Booy / quote ↗
23UndatedLoneliness is like being the only person left alive in theuniverse, except that everyone else is still here.Simon Van Booy / quote ↗
24UndatedAnyone who is desperate or alone will agree there is comfort in routine.Simon Van Booy / quote ↗
