“Existence doesn't have more meaning in one direction than it does in any other.” — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
“All he ever knew of her was who he saw every day. All I am is who I am every day. All… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
At some point in your life, this statement will be true: tomorrow you will lose everything forever. — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
“We don't need the Good Life. The Pretty Good Life would be just fine.” — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
“theorems, miscellaneous At some point in your life, this statement will be true: Tomorrow you will lose everything forever.” — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
What is this called, what I am doing, to myself, to my life, this wallowing, this pondering, this rolling over and over… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
This, then, is my choice: I can allow the events of my life to happen to me. Or I can take those… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
“I know none of this seems very believable. It probably doesn't even make sense. But for once in your life, please, I… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
“You forget that your life is a short window, that you are stuck in the present, forget how your life is still… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
“A life is about twenty-five thousand days, and a finding occurs about once every twenty-five thousand days. In other news, once in… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
I was headed for an entire life spent alone, pitying myself for not being more, ignoring all those people who actually ask… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
“Chronological living is a kind of lie. That’s why I don’t do it anymore. Existence doesn’t have more meaning in one direction… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
Maybe we spend most of our decades being someone else, avoiding ourselves, maybe a man is only himself, his true self, for… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
“The path of a man's life is straight, straight, straight, until the moment when it isn't anymore, and after that it begins… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
Worry was my mother's mechanic, her mechanism for engaging with the machinery of living. Worry was an anchor for her, a hook,… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
“Now I fix time machines for a living. To be more specific, I am a certified network technician for T-Class personal-use chronogrammatical… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
“The red indicator light just came on. I'm looking at the run-time error report. It's like a mathematically precise way of saying,… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
“...unfortunately, it's true: time does heal. It will do so whether you like it or not, and there's nothing anyone can do… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
“You live like this long enough, a life without chances, you lose your bearings. A life without danger. A life without the… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
“My father built a time machine and then he spent his whole life trying to figure out how to use it to… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
Life is, to some extent, an extended dialogue with your future self about how exactly you are going to let yourself down… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
“Probably it goes without saying, but time machine guys don't get a lot of action. Had a one night stand with something cute a… — Charles Yu Copy Share
“Maybe I'd absorbed the capacity to hurt someone by listening to my parents every night, who were under the impression that turning the volume… — Charles Yu Copy Share
“A life is about twenty-five thousand days, and a finding occurs about once every twenty-five thousand days. In other news, once in a lifetime.” — Charles Yu Copy Share
For the past several years, I have gone to sleep every night in this same little pocket, the most uneventful piece of time I… — Charles Yu Copy Share
Whatever the reason, first place was always Solo, always, always, always, and second place was usually Chewbacca, because if you weren't the one saving… — Charles Yu Copy Share
“I hate everything about her except for the fact that I love everything about her.” — Charles Yu Copy Share
“My thoughts, normally bunched together, wrapped in gauze, insistent, urgent, impatient, one moment to the next, living in what I now realize is, in… — Charles Yu Copy Share
“How many times before I finally convince myself, how many private, erasable deaths will I need to die, how many self-murders is it going… — Charles Yu Copy Share
“I know none of this seems very believable. It probably doesn't even make sense. But for once in your life, please, I am asking… — Charles Yu Copy Share
“My father makes to-do lists, makes plans, makes business plans. This is how he starts, always with a blank sheet of graph paper.” — Charles Yu Copy Share
“It’s hard to have a relationship in this world. Other people are not the same from day to day. I might wake up next… — Charles Yu Copy Share
Everyone has a time machine. Everyone *is* a time machine. It's just that most people's time machines are broken. The strangest and hardest kind… — Charles Yu Copy Share
“There are objects you may desire but cannot explain. There are objects that are not nouns, there are actions that are not verbs. There… — Charles Yu Copy Share
“The sneaky heftiness of the book being the aggregate cumulative effect of hundreds of thousands of individually insubstantial little markings, letters and numbers, commas… — Charles Yu Copy Share
