--- title: "1 Universe Really Quotes By Charles Yu" description: "1 Universe Really quotes by Charles Yu. Plus more from Charles Yu and more Universe Really sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/878/charles-yu-3807_ask-yourself_again-with-the-physical-universe-stuff-w_1227433.png" --- > [“Again with the physical universe stuff. What exactly do you think you are? What exactly do you think this place is? You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-yu/again-with-the-physical-universe-stuff-what-exactly-do-you-think-you/) [Charles Yu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-yu/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/878/charles-yu-3807_ask-yourself_again-with-the-physical-universe-stuff-w_1227433.png) ## More by Charles Yu > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-yu/probably-it-goes-without-saying-but-time-machine-guys-don-t-get-a-lot/) [Charles Yu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-yu/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-yu/maybe-i-d-absorbed-the-capacity-to-hurt-someone-by-listening-to-my/) [Charles Yu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-yu/) > [“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.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-yu/a-life-is-about-twenty-five-thousand-days-and-a-finding-occurs-about/) [Charles Yu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-yu/) > [“We don't need the Good Life. The Pretty Good Life would be just fine.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-yu/we-don-t-need-the-good-life-the-pretty-good-life-would-be-just-fine/) [Charles Yu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-yu/) > [For the past several years, I have gone to sleep every night in this same little pocket, the most uneventful piece of time I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-yu/for-the-past-several-years-i-have-gone-to-sleep-every-night-in-this/) [Charles Yu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-yu/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-yu/whatever-the-reason-first-place-was-always-solo-always-always-always/) [Charles Yu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-yu/) > [“I hate everything about her except for the fact that I love everything about her.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-yu/i-hate-everything-about-her-except-for-the-fact-that-i-love/) [Charles Yu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-yu/) > [“My thoughts, normally bunched together, wrapped in gauze, insistent, urgent, impatient, one moment to the next, living in what I now realize is, in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-yu/my-thoughts-normally-bunched-together-wrapped-in-gauze-insistent/) [Charles Yu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-yu/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-yu/how-many-times-before-i-finally-convince-myself-how-many-private/) [Charles Yu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-yu/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-yu/i-know-none-of-this-seems-very-believable-it-probably-doesn-t-even/) [Charles Yu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-yu/) > [“My father makes to-do lists, makes plans, makes business plans. This is how he starts, always with a blank sheet of graph paper.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-yu/my-father-makes-to-do-lists-makes-plans-makes-business-plans-this-is/) [Charles Yu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-yu/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-yu/it-s-hard-to-have-a-relationship-in-this-world-other-people-are-not/) [Charles Yu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-yu/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-yu/everyone-has-a-time-machine-everyone-is-a-time-machine-it-s-just-that/) [Charles Yu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-yu/) > [“There are objects you may desire but cannot explain. There are objects that are not nouns, there are actions that are not verbs. There…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-yu/there-are-objects-you-may-desire-but-cannot-explain-there-are-objects/) [Charles Yu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-yu/) > [“The sneaky heftiness of the book being the aggregate cumulative effect of hundreds of thousands of individually insubstantial little markings, letters and numbers, commas…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-yu/the-sneaky-heftiness-of-the-book-being-the-aggregate-cumulative/) [Charles Yu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-yu/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/universe-really/charles-yu/#itemlist", "name": "1 Universe Really Quotes By Charles Yu", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Again with the physical universe stuff. What exactly do you think you are? What exactly do you think this place is? 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