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.


The Love We Share Without Knowing (ed. Bantam, 2008) - ISBN: 9780553905892

Christopher Barzak Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...