Best 12 quotes of Christopher Barzak on MyQuotes

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 risen. And despite wanting to be as real to you as you were to me, I couldn't afford us any longer. We were beyond my means.

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, and it’s harder to burn memories when you’ve still got life left. When you’re alive you have to learn how to live with things like regret.

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

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

The terrible thing about love is that it takes away your safety net, your balancing pole. Even the tightrope you walk upon will disappear beneath you, yet love expects you to keep walking anyway, arms outstretched, one foot after the other, on nothing more than air.

Everything about us was entirely normal, really. We were as ordinary as anything we might come across in this world.

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

Normal is a setting on a washing machine.

Philip K. Dick could have been Japanese. He seemed to know a lot about how the world is never what it looks like. That’s pretty much Japan through and through.

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 himself having someone to hold. He tells whoever is reading this that he’s grateful for the love we share without knowing.

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

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