Christopher Barzak Quotes

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

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

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#3. Real strength isn't control. It's knowing when to let go.

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#4. Buddha had said to make a light of yourself, and if Laurie had anything to say about it, one day he'd glow.

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

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#6. Uncharted territory," I said. "The parts on the maps of our lives that we don't understand. In cartographer's language they call these places sleeping beauties.

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

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#8. 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 at all. Isn't that wonderful?

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#9. Just two people in love.

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#10. Normal is a setting on a washing machine.

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

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#12. 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.

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#13. Only so much truth can exist between two people until it becomes too much, and then they can't bear to be around each other.

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#14. He was all surface, written on by those who'd pass him, like a love hotel diary.

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#15. Here they were, the people we were becoming, about to knock on our front door, hoping they could undo the mistakes we were making at that very moment.

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#16. 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.

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#17. In Japan, people have something called their charm point. A coy smile, a twinkle in the eye, a faultless sense of humour, or a laugh no one has heard in the history of laughs before. The thing that makes others love you.

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

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#19. 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.

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#20. Leaves fell around me, red and gold stars falling through the mist.

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#21. You're like a candle in a dark room, throwing light backwards and forwards.

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#22. Transformation is something that obsesses me. What is the soul? Is there a difference between something like a soul and something like a self? Is our identity something we construct, or is it organic and natural? There are all kinds of theories.

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#23. I really do feel like I was born to write and tell stories.

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#24. Here I'd been thinking that just because someone spoke English we'd understand each other. But I guess there are languages within languages, and those can be foreign, too, even when you think you're understanding each other.

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#25. You're both treated fairly," she said, "but sometimes people require different things for true fairness.

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