I once heard my mother tell my sister love only comes at a price, there's no way around it. You give up parts of yourself for love, she said. If that's true, I thought, the cost of our love had… — 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
