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• I wonder if things can happen too early or too late or if everything happens at exactly the right time. If so, how sad and beautiful.

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• Loneliness is like being the only person left alive in the universe, except that everyone else is still here.

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• I want to do things for people they will never forget. Maybe that’s the best thing I can do in life.

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

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

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• I don’t see the point of truth anymore, it causes just as much heartbreak as lying.

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• We see in others what we want and what we fear.

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• For some people, life is the process of knocking through walls to get out. For others, it is the building of walls.

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• Dreamers conquered the world long ago.

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• Language is like looking at a map of somewhere. Love is living there and surviving on the land.

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• Hands have their own language.

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• Love is life but longer.

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• Sometimes, language is the sound of longing.

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• Whether you know it or not, we leave parts of ourselves wherever we go.

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• Language is like drinking from one’s own reflection in still water. We only take from it what we are at the time.

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• There are some lies that, under the right circumstances, are the only truth.

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• The key to a good life is to gently overlook the truth.

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• It’s tempting to imagine how we could hurt someone close, because it reminds us how fiercely we love them.

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• Love is also a violence, and cannot be undone.

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• We cross from memory into imagination with only a vague awareness of change.

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Simon Van Booy (42)

Birth:	1975
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Writer

About

Simon Van Booy is a British writer who lives in the United States. He grew up in rural Wales, but has lived in Kentucky, Paris, Athens, New York City and the Hamptons. Love Begins in Winter won the 2009 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award.

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