Where are people going? I wonder what they hope will happen and what they are afraid of? For me it’s the same thing and has to do with being loved.
Simon Van BooyTags: fear love hope being-loved loved
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.
Simon Van BooyTags: love marriage relationships meetings encounters
She said that one day they would be very old, that the world would be a different place, but it would always be their world, and that the time apart now would be a nightmare from which they would recover - desperation buried under years of happiness.
Simon Van BooyTags: happiness age time memories
In 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 BooyTags: sadness crying tears grief
He wanted to tell the baby that Paris was like a poem in stone.
Simon Van BooyThen, breathing slow, and almost deliberately, stops. But for a moment the old man doesn’t realize he is dead. He can feel Martin’s heart and mistakes it for his own.
Simon Van BooyI was afraid of the sea when I was a girl. Someone said it went on forever and that frightened me. I wondered why my parents had chosen to live at the beginning and the end of the world.
Simon Van BooyTags: sea ocean end-of-the-world
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.
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