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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

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

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

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

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

Christopher Barzak

Christopher Barzak

Born: July 21, 1975 (age 50)

Bio: Christopher Barzak is an American author. He has published many short stories, beginning with "A Mad Tea Party" in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet in 1999.

Known for:

One for Sorrow (2007)
The Love We Share Without Knowing (2008)
Before and Afterlives: Stories (2013)
Birds and Birthdays (2012)
So Fey (2011)

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