“Get back in the box. Set it for home, present day. Go see your mom. Bring your dad. Have dinner, the three of you. Go find The Woman You Never Married and see if she might want to be The… — 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
