Christopher Barzak

“Uncharted territory,” I said. “The parts on the maps of our lives that we don’t understand. In cartographer’s language they call these…

— Christopher Barzak

“Tokyo was an origami city folded over and over until something was made of virtually nothing.”

— Christopher Barzak

Don’t ever put your happiness in someone else’s hands. They’ll drop it. They’ll drop it every time.

— Christopher Barzak

Sometimes you've got to be able to listen to yourself and be okay with no one else understanding.

— Christopher Barzak

“My heart was defective. It was defecting a little more each day.”

— Christopher Barzak

“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…

— Christopher Barzak

The terrible thing about love is that it takes away your safety net, your balancing pole. Even the tightrope you walk upon…

— Christopher Barzak

“In Japan, people have something called their charm point. A coy smile, a twinkle in the eye, a faultless sense of humour,…

— Christopher Barzak

“Normal is a setting on a washing machine.”

— Christopher Barzak

“Only so much truth can exist between two people until it becomes too much, and then they can’t bear to be around…

— Christopher Barzak

I tried. I tried to burn that memory of my regret. But I wasn’t dead yet, I was just on my way…

— Christopher Barzak

“Here I'd been thinking that just because someone spoke English we'd understand each other. But I guess there are languages within languages,…

— Christopher Barzak

“You’re like a candle in a dark room, throwing light backwards and forwards.”

— Christopher Barzak

Nothing is more real than the masks we make to show each other who we are.

— Christopher Barzak

Real strength isn’t control. It’s knowing when to let go.

— Christopher Barzak

“He was all surface, written on by those who’d pass him, like a love hotel diary.”

— Christopher Barzak

“Buddha had said to make a light of yourself, and if Laurie had anything to say about it, one day he’d glow.”

— Christopher Barzak

I once heard my mother tell my sister love only comes at a price, there's no way around it. You give up…

— Christopher Barzak

“Philip K. Dick could have been Japanese. He seemed to know a lot about how the world is never what it looks…

— Christopher Barzak

“That’s what love hotels are for.” “I know,” says Ai, “but this man comes alone. He says he comes to this room…

— Christopher Barzak

“As we walked the streets together, cups of bitter coffee warming our hands, the present told its story all around us. The…

— Christopher Barzak