Van Booy Quotes & Sayings
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He wanted to tell the baby that Paris was like a poem in stone. —
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Dreams are the unfinished wings of our souls. —
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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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There are times in life when language fails us, when everything that needs to be said can be expressed only by saying nothing at all. —
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the body is nothing but camouflage. —
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I wanted to explain that trusting is harder than being trusted. —
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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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Never admit you have obsessive-compulsive disorder to someone who doesn't have it because they'll think you're crazy. But —
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But war only ends for those who have not been in one. —
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Daddy, where's panda?" Gerard finds her stuffed panda and lays it next to her. She goes back to sleep immediately. In —
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It is the afternoon of my birthday, but still the morning of my life. —
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The poet Emily Dickinson said that nature is a haunted house, while art is a house that tries to be haunted. She was born and died in the same room. —
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The beauty of artifacts is in how they reassure us we're
not the first to die. —
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Music helps us understand where we have come from but, more importantly, what has happened to us. —
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I never want her to know that fatherhood was the ambition of my life. —
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For those who are lost, there will always be cities that feel
like home. —
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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 think John Coltrane is one of the great American heroes, like Abraham Lincoln and Emily Dickinson. —
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You can't explain love" he said out loud. "That's how it gets ruined. —
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Libraries are the ultimate restaurants for brain food. I sleep better knowing there are libraries. I would take a bullet for a librarian. —
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I once saved someone from drowning. —
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Death is the most sophisticated form of beauty, and the most difficult to accept. —
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The passions we cannot control are the ones that define us. —
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[I] read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them. —
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You are in the place that was meant for you. Everything had to be arranged like this to get you here. —
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Writers are often alone when they work. Hours pass in silence as one long moment; light fades as day turns back to face the coming night. —
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I was always a writer, by which I mean I was always scribbling away, doing something with pen and paper. —
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Dreamers conquered the world long ago. —
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Without memory, he thought, man would be invincible —
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The damned would have to remain on earth in perpetual doubt. Once —
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Where are people going? I wonder what they hope will happen and what they are afraid of? For me it's the same thing and has to do with being loved. —
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Coincidences mean you're on the right path. —
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Love between strangers takes only a few seconds and can last a whole life. —
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Hands have their own language. —
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I think anyone can fall in love, if you're open and you're willing, but the real test is sustaining it after all the excitement has worn off. —
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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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In the end I didn't know who I was crying for, but it was something my body wanted to do, as though trying to digest grief. —
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You are hatching from the past. —
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. . . truth is just a lie that everyone believes. —
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Love is like life but longer. —
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I want the sea to carry my unceasing love to their still bodies, —
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The very best and the very worst of life will come from [their] ability to love strangers. —
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Both my parents were very supportive of me in whatever I wanted to do. —
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Love requires imagination more than experience. —
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Love is also a violence, and cannot be undone. —
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The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence. —
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I live in Rome where people sit by fountains and kiss. The sound of water is the sound of love rushing between them. —
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We touched with a softness that pushed through the skin into memory, like arms plunged into a river - we could feel the weight of each other's stones. —
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Grief is a room without doors - but somehow, with its tinsel and cliches, Christmas finds a way in. —
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Children are the closest we have to wisdom, and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them. —
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Absence makes the heart grows fonder, doesn't it? —
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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. —
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Anyone who is desperate or alone will agree there is comfort in routine. —
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I would give everything, even memory - especially memory - if I could hold Leo again. The weight of his absence is the weight of the entire world. I —
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Perhaps 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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The present grows within the boundaries of the past. —
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Death ends a life but not a relationship. I —
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Gerard feels stabbing love for his daughter. —
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I think music is what language once aspired to be. Music allows us to face God on our own terms because it reaches beyond life. —
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Actually, years mean nothing. It's what's inside them. —
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Music is only a mystery to people who want it explained. Music and love are the same. —
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Life just swallows you up, doesn't it?Just swallows you up with its everyday things —
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You were unsure which pain is worse
the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will. —
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I didn't know who she was, but I had this fire inside me for someone I knew existed. —
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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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I find hunger more interesting than accomplishment. —
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Life had called his name, and without thinking, he had stepped forward. He wondered if perhaps he was becoming the person he had always wanted to be. —
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I can't stop thinking that everybody is somebody's child. —
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night was like a horse that tore through the forest of memory. As —
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I want the sea to tell them I've found someone I want to marry and that I have to say good-bye - —
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Every day is a masterpiece, even if it crushes you. —
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Every moment is the paradox of now or never. —
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When a person is loved, they are granted the strength of all seas. —
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We see in others what we want and what we fear. —
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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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They haven't made love for years but sleep holding hands —
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There are some lies that, under the right circumstances, are the only truth —
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When I'm doing something, I do work hard at it. —
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I like stories very much," the priest said. "They help me understand myself better. —
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The coat-check line is long enough to fall in love with the person behind you. —
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Rain says everything we cannot say to one another. t is an ancient sound that willed all life into being, but fell so long upon nothing. —
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I think most people in the world are decent if they're not suffering. —
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Love is life but longer —
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