Christopher Barzak quotes

“Don’t ever put your happiness in someone else’s hands. They’ll drop it. They’ll drop it every time.”
-- Christopher Barzak

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“Sometimes you've got to be able to listen to yourself and be okay with no one else understanding.”
-- Christopher Barzak

Source : Christopher Barzak (2007). “One For Sorrow”, p.285, Bantam

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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

Source : Christopher Barzak (2008). “The Love We Share Without Knowing”, p.65, Bantam

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“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

Source : Christopher Barzak (2008). “The Love We Share Without Knowing”, p.73, Bantam

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“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

Source : Christopher Barzak (2007). “One For Sorrow”, p.69, Bantam

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“Nothing is more real than the masks we make to show each other who we are.”
-- Christopher Barzak

Source : Christopher Barzak (2008). “The Love We Share Without Knowing”, p.24, Bantam

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“Real strength isn’t control. It’s knowing when to let go.”
-- Christopher Barzak

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“Don’t ever put your happiness in someone else’s hands. They’ll drop it. They’ll drop it every time.”
-- Christopher Barzak

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

#Hands Quotes

“Real strength isn’t control. It’s knowing when to let go.”
-- Christopher Barzak

#Letting Go Quotes #Real Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“To her- Hand in hand we come Christopher Robin and I To lay this book in your lap. Say you're surprised? Say you like it? Say it's just what you wanted? Because it's yours- because we love you.”

“The sanctified body is one whose hands are clean. The stain of dishonesty is not on them, the withering blight of ill-gotten gain has not blistered them, the mark of violence is not found upon them. They have been separated from every occupation that could displease God or injure a fellow-man.”

“He would not stay for me, and who can wonder? He would not stay for me to stand and gaze. I shook his hand, and tore my heart in sunder, And went with half my life about my ways.”

“If in any divination the Tenth Card should be a Court Card, it shews that the subject of the divination falls ultimately into the hands of a person represented by that card, and its end depends mainly on him.”

Source : A. E. Waite (2012). “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot”, p.208, Courier Corporation

“The mighty edifice of Government science dominated the scene in the middle of the 20th century as a Gothic cathedral dominated a 13th century landscape. The work of many hands over many years, it universally inspired admiration, wonder and fear.”

“I think in this country we're committed to developing plays, and many plays I've seen have been rewritten too much. The scenes are tight, the play ends at the right time, you know exactly what the scene is about, but it seems flat; you can almost see that too many hands have been on the play. The individual voice is gone.”

“Behave in life as at a dinner party. Is anything brought around to you? Put out your hand and take your share with moderation. Does it pass by you? Do not stop it. Is it not yet come? Do not stretch your desire towards it, but wait till it reaches you. Do this with regard to children, to a spouse, to public post, to riches, and you will eventually be a worthy guest at the feast of life.”

“O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor.”

Source : Aaron Hill (1760). “Muses in mourning. Zara, to which is added, an interlude, never before printed. Snake in the grass. Alzira. Saul. Daraxes. Merope. Roman revenge. Insolvent. Some love letters, by the author”, p.147

“I've always been a bit of a mix between art and technology. I used to paint a lot, but I'm not very good with my hands. It has always been a fusion between my computer gaming interests and being exposed to the rich data of society that we live in.”

“My workday begins around 11 A.M., with a cup of black coffee in each hand. If I had more hands, there would be more coffee.”