Most people I know live their lives moving in a constant forward direction, the whole time looking backward. — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
“Worry was a box to live inside of, worry a mechanism for evading the present, for the re-creating the past, for dealing… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
“I can see how I am always in perpetual motion through time, how I can never stop, obsessed with the past, projecting… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
Time is a machine: it will convert your pain into experience... It will force you to move on and you will not… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
Within a science fictional space, memory and regret are, when taken together, the set of necessary and sufficient elements required to produce… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
Everyone has a time machine. Everyone *is* a time machine. It's just that most people's time machines are broken. The strangest and… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
“How many times before I finally convince myself, how many private, erasable deaths will I need to die, how many self-murders is… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
“When it happens, this is what happens: I shoot myself. Not, you know, my self self. I shoot my future self. He… — 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… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
I had forgotten: this is what it feels like to live in time. The lurching forward, the sensation of falling of a… — 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
This is what I say: I've got good news and bad news. The good news is, you don't have to worry, you… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
“She used her heart to love him, not her head, not her words and not her thoughts or ideas or feelings or… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
“She says that is exactly what she's crying about. That everything is all right. That the world isn't ending. That we'll never… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
How many times have I failed before? How many times have I stood here like this, in front of my own image,… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
“Time is a machine: it will convert your pain into experience. Raw data will be compiled, will be translated into a more… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
“When you are thirteen, you spend all your time imagining what it would be like to live in a world where you… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
“Look at that," he said. "How the ink bleeds." He loved the way it looked, to write on a thick pillow of… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
“I hope you read this, whoever you are, and imagine that there is a hypothetical person out there who needs your love,… — 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
“There must be some kind of internal time distortion effect in here, because when I look at myself in the little mirror… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
“If you’re not careful, time will take away everything that ever hurt you, everything you have ever lost, and replace it with… — 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
“If you ever find yourself coming out of a time machine, run. Run away as fast you can. Don't stop. Don't try… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
For the past several years, I have gone to sleep every night in this same little pocket, the most uneventful piece of… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
“All those stories about time travel, they were comforting, and at the same time it bothered me how they always made it… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
“Move forward, into the empty plane. Find the book you wrote, and read it until the end, but don't turn the last… — 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
