180 Quotes by Simon Van Booy

Hands have their own language.

For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.

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.

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

That night she admitted her compulsion to escape. She was worried that if my father drowned, or I disappeared, she would be left with nothing. By running away at least she would have the joy of knowing she was missed.

Coincidences mean you’re on the right path.

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

Reading reassures us that no matter how alone we might feel, there are many others – spread as wide as history itself – who have felt the same way we have, who have occupied the rooms we find ourselves locked in at various points of our lives.

Actually, years mean nothing. It’s what’s inside them.