Words matter. These are the best Simon Van Booy Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I once saved someone from drowning.
I was always a writer, by which I mean I was always scribbling away, doing something with pen and paper.
Writers are often alone when they work. Hours pass in silence as one long moment; light fades as day turns back to face the coming night.
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.
Both my parents were very supportive of me in whatever I wanted to do.
I find hunger more interesting than accomplishment.
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.
The most frustrating part of trying to direct everything is not that it alienates you from people who genuinely want to help, but that it’s actually impossible.
Everything that we love will, at some point, be taken away from us. If I think about everyone I love eventually being taken away from me by death, or simply by getting lost from each other in the world, it makes me value them much more now.
Libraries are the ultimate restaurants for brain food. I sleep better knowing there are libraries. I would take a bullet for a librarian.
Grief is a room without doors – but somehow, with its tinsel and cliches, Christmas finds a way in.
When I’m doing something, I do work hard at it.
There are times in life when language fails us, when everything that needs to be said can be expressed only by saying nothing at all.
Every parent, no matter how cultured or sophisticated, will one day succumb to a child’s pleas to visit Walt Disney World Resort.
When you give something up, you need to fill the space where it used to be, and you understand the landscape in yourself a bit more.
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.
I think anyone can fall in love, if you’re open and you’re willing, but the real test is sustaining it after all the excitement has worn off.
As a single parent, I had become tyrannical in order to survive, and anything I couldn’t control caused me enormous anxiety. As a naturally untidy, disorganised man who never made lists or kept receipts, morphing into someone who could take care of a toddler on his own may have caused me to overcompensate a little.
