Ray

“All she knows is that someone fell, and that everything beautiful began after.”
― Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After

“If the world were flat,
like a flying carpet,
our sorrow would have a beginning and an end.

If the world were square,
we'd lie low in a corner
whenever the war plays hide and seek.

If the world were round,
our dreams would take turns on the Ferris wheel, and we'd all be equal.”
― Dunya Mikhail, The Iraqi Nights

“Somewhere across the city, among the thousands of thumping hearts, was the one he wanted.”
― Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After

“He stood at a tilt as though tethered to some terrible weight - some moment of his past that simultaneously defined who he was yet denied him life.”
― Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After