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

- Christopher Barzak

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

- Christopher Barzak

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…

- 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…

- 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

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

- 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…

- Christopher Barzak