180 Quotes by Simon Van Booy

Many things are hard, Danny. Life comes at you in pieces sometimes too big to avoid.

She told me that love is when a person introduces you to yourself for the first time. After.

It’s true the people we meet shape us. But the people we don’t meet shape us also, often more because we have imagined them so vividly. There are people we yearn for but never seem to meet.

For those who are lost, there will always be cities that feel like home.

You may wonder why I haven’t killed myself because living with madness or watching it flood the heart of someone we love is unbearable.

He thinks I suffer from depression. But I’m just quiet. Solitude and depression are like swimming and drowning. In school many years ago, I learned that flowers sometimes unfold inside themselves.

Even if you have loved only once in your life, you’re ruined.

I think living with the absence of someone we love is like living in front of a mountain from which a person – a speck in the distance, on some distance ridge – is perpetually waving.

I barely remember her, but I am still in love with her ghost.