Written Sense Quotes 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…

— 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…

— 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.”

— Charles Yu

“We don't need the Good Life. The Pretty Good Life would be just fine.”

— 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…

— 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…

— Charles Yu

“I hate everything about her except for the fact that I love everything about her.”

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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.”

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Charles Yu