“That’s what love hotels are for.” “I know,” says Ai, “but this man comes alone. He says he comes to this room and thinks about the lovers who have been here before him, imagines himself as one of them, imagines… — Christopher Barzak Copy Share Image
“Uncharted territory,” I said. “The parts on the maps of our lives that we don’t understand. In cartographer’s language they call these places sleeping… — Christopher Barzak Copy Share Image
“Tokyo was an origami city folded over and over until something was made of virtually nothing.” — Christopher Barzak Copy Share Image
Don’t ever put your happiness in someone else’s hands. They’ll drop it. They’ll drop it every time. — Christopher Barzak Copy Share Image
Sometimes you've got to be able to listen to yourself and be okay with no one else understanding. — Christopher Barzak Copy Share Image
“My heart was defective. It was defecting a little more each day.” — Christopher Barzak Copy Share Image
“You see, that’s what’s so odd, how everyone thinks they’re normal and the truth is no one in the world is normal at all.… — Christopher Barzak Copy Share Image
The terrible thing about love is that it takes away your safety net, your balancing pole. Even the tightrope you walk upon will disappear… — Christopher Barzak Copy Share Image
“In Japan, people have something called their charm point. A coy smile, a twinkle in the eye, a faultless sense of humour, or a… — Christopher Barzak Copy Share Image
“Only so much truth can exist between two people until it becomes too much, and then they can’t bear to be around each other.” — Christopher Barzak Copy Share Image
I tried. I tried to burn that memory of my regret. But I wasn’t dead yet, I was just on my way to dying,… — Christopher Barzak Copy Share Image
“Here I'd been thinking that just because someone spoke English we'd understand each other. But I guess there are languages within languages, and those… — Christopher Barzak Copy Share Image
