Sometimes, language is the sound of longing
Simon Van BooyEverything you are
afraid of will never happen. It’s the events you cannot
conceive of that happen.
Loneliness is like being the only person left alive in the
universe, except that everyone else is still here.
Tag: loneliness universe
She once told me that she loved me because I was the only thing she could hear. She can feel the vibration of the strings through the carved vessel of her instrument, but I am inside her. I am a song soaked into each bone of her secret body where the world has not been able to wander.
Simon Van BooyThere is little joy in those first moments of recognition- for the reality is that most encounters of such depth, most first glances of love come to nothing. And while the sincerity of that rare moment when your heart is bursting should be the signal to fling yourself on the ground in the path of this stranger, it's the depth of such sincerity that paralyses you, holds you back from the silence of phrases like "hello" and "good morning."
And as they pass, granting only single, torturous details like fingers upon the handle of an umbrella, or a hair pin bearing the weight of a twist, or a wool collar beaded with pearls of rain- there is only one thing you could ever say that would be true, that would make them stop walking and turn to face you.
But such a thing is unsayable.
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...
Simon Van BooyTag: love first-love
Should you ever feel too lonely...listen for the roar of the sea- for in it are all those who've been and all those who are to come.
Simon Van BooyThe very best and the very worst of life will come from [their] ability to love strangers.
Simon Van BooyTag: life love hurt heartbreak
You can’t put a price on the rituals of love, because you never know what will happen next. I suppose fear is part of the excitement and we can’t have one without the other.
Simon Van BooyPerhaps he had been waiting all along for someone to knock him down and allow him to drop the weight he’d so faithfully carried.
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