You were unsure which pain is worse—the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.

—Simon Van Booy in Everything Beautiful Began After

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About Simon Van Booy

Simon Van Booy (born 1975) is an Anglo-American writer, currently living in the United States. His short story collection, Love Begins in Winter, won the 2009 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. He was a finalist for the 2011 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise.

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Love between strangers takes only a few seconds and can last a whole life.

—Simon Van Booy in Love Begins in Winter

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Coincidences mean you're on the right path.

—Simon Van Booy in Love Begins in Winter

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Could it be that first love was the only true love? And that after those first fires had been doused or burned out, men and women chose whom they would love based on worldly needs, and then reenacted the rituals and feelings of that first pure experience?

—Simon Van Booy in The Coming and Going of Strangers

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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.

—Simon Van Booy in The Secret Lives of People in Love

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