This, then, is my choice: I can allow the events of my life to happen to me. Or I can take those very same actions and make them my own. I can live in my own present, risk failure, be… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
Failure is easy to measure. Failure is an event.Harder to measure is insignificance. A nonevent. Insignificance creeps, it dawns, it gives you hope, then delusion, then one day, when you’re not looking, it’s there, at your front door, on your… — 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 Image
“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 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 a lifetime.” — 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
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 Image
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 Image
“I hate everything about her except for the fact that I love everything about her.” — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
