180 Quotes by Simon Van Booy

He wanted to tell the baby that Paris was like a poem in stone.

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

Every day is a masterpiece, even if it crushes you.

Could it be that first love was the only true love? And that after those first fires had been doused or burned out, men and women chose whom they would love based on worldly needs, and then reenacted the rituals and feelings of that first pure experience - nursed the flames that once burned of their own accord...

His father was an attorney in Paris. He met Sebastien’s mother on a train to Amsterdam. There were no other seats. They were forced together and found they preferred it.

Your grief is something to be admired – the pain of severance. A scar where something used to be.

Absence makes the heart grows fonder, doesn't it?

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.

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.