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
“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
“...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
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
“Everyone is a recording to everyone else, a memory, a past transcript embedded in air or water or sound or light. No… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
“There are a few years when you make almost all of your important memories. And then you spend the next few decades… — 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
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
