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Christopher Barzak Quotes

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

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

Christopher Barzak
Hands
Christopher Barzak (2007). “One For Sorrow”, p.9, Bantam

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

Christopher Barzak
Life, Positive Thinking, Understanding
Christopher Barzak (2007). “One For Sorrow”, p.285, Bantam

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

Christopher Barzak
Real, Wearing A Mask, Who We Are
Christopher Barzak (2008). “The Love We Share Without Knowing”, p.24, Bantam

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

Christopher Barzak
Letting Go, Real, Knowing

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.

Christopher Barzak
Love Is, Air, Feet
Christopher Barzak (2008). “The Love We Share Without Knowing”, p.65, Bantam

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.

Christopher Barzak
Life, Memories, Regret
Christopher Barzak (2007). “One For Sorrow”, p.69, Bantam

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.

Christopher Barzak
Mother, Giving Up, Real
Christopher Barzak (2008). “The Love We Share Without Knowing”, p.73, Bantam

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