沅蓁 李

“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.”
― Simon Van Booy, The Secret Lives of People in Love

“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.”
― Simon Van Booy, The Secret Lives of People in Love

“But those who seek only reassurance from life will never be more than tourists—seeing everything and trying to possess what can only be felt.
Beauty is the shadow of imperfection.”
― Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After

“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.”
― Simon Van Booy, Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories