Wonders of the Invisible World Quotes

“Here's the thing: we're all as thin as paper. Like those paper people you used to find in old children's magazines, inhabiting a two-page spread with other paper people, all of them hanging out somewhere together-at the park, at church, at school, at the mall, on the family room-until some kid took a pair of scissors to the dotted lines surrounding them and cut them out of their paper world. That's us, that's anyone. That was me. A cut-out paper person removed from the world I once belonged to.”
― Christopher Barzak, Wonders of the Invisible World

“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.”
― Christopher Barzak, Wonders of the Invisible World

“You're both treated fairly," she said, "but sometimes people require different things for true fairness.”
― Christopher Barzak, Wonders of the Invisible World

“Small towns in remote corners of the world are really quaint, unless you don't fit into them. Then they're just small.”
― Christopher Barzak, Wonders of the Invisible World

“Just two people in love.”
― Christopher Barzak, Wonders of the Invisible World

“Everything about us was entirely normal, really. We were as ordinary as anything we might come across in this world.”
― Christopher Barzak, Wonders of the Invisible World

“I didn’t need to be liked or accepted. I needed to know and to accept myself.”
― Christopher Barzak, Wonders of the Invisible World

“Small towns in remote corners of the world are really quaint, unless you don’t fit into them. Then they’re just small.”
― Christopher Barzak, Wonders of the Invisible World

“Being in love isn't irrational, he said. It only looks like that to people who have never felt it.”
― Christopher Barzak, Wonders of the Invisible World

“An afternoon drive down back roads, looking for something I couldn’t put a name to. A route to some place where maybe my true life existed.”
― Christopher Barzak, Wonders of the Invisible World

“I then fell asleep fast. Fell being the key word. Fell into the place called sleep, where we rest. Where we find peace for a little while.”
― Christopher Barzak, Wonders of the Invisible World

“Jarrod frowned like he felt bad for me, and I thought I saw maybe even a hint of tears in his eyes, like he was attending the funeral of a good friend who had died in an accident, and was looking down at his dead body, thinking, That's not him, the way I'd thought when I saw my grandmother in her casket, all made up with colors she'd have never chosen for herself had she been alive.”
― Christopher Barzak, Wonders of the Invisible World

“Peace wasn’t what I found when I did finally fall into sleep, though. A strange dream came instead. It wasn’t one of mine, though, I could tell immediately. Maybe it belonged to someone in my family, or maybe to someone nearby. I had no idea. But wherever the dream came from, it swooped into my room on dark feathers, plucked me up like a baby, and carried me away to another world, where the peace of sleep did not exist.”
― Christopher Barzak, Wonders of the Invisible World

“We spent the night smiling politely at each other through this glass barrier that felt like it had sprung up right behind my eyes. Like I was trapped inside myself, and the me who danced awkwardly with her on the floor was this stand-in, making dumb jokes while I beat against the glass wall, beat against it with my fists and then my head...”
― Christopher Barzak, Wonders of the Invisible World