The Presence of Absence Quotes

“You know you love someone when, at the sound of tires rolling over small stones in the driveway, you inflate like a balloon.”
― Simon Van Booy, The Presence of Absence

“If there is such a thing as fate, it’s not that life is already written and we’re simply unwitting figures in lines of spiritual code–it’s that we are at the mercy of things imposed on us in childhood. — Simon Van Booy, The Presence of Absence (Godine, 2022)”
― Simon Van Booy, The Presence of Absence

“That only the fortunate suffer. Most are damned to indifference or blinded by the fantasy of life after death.”
― Simon Van Booy, The Presence of Absence

“Stories lead us behind the curtain of somebody else’s life into the deepest chambers of our own. And”
― Simon Van Booy, The Presence of Absence