30 quotes found
“On the worst days, I feel fine. On the best days, I know I am not.”
“If I could be half the person my dog is, I'd be twice the human I am.”
“I hate everything about her except for the fact that I love everything about her.”
“You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits.”
“It's like all technology: either not powerful enough or too powerful. It will never do exactly what you want it to do.”
“All he ever knew of her was who he saw every day. All I am is who I am every day. All anyone is to anyone is a series of days.”
“...unfortunately, it's true: time does heal. It will do so whether you like it or not, and there's nothing anyone can do about it. If you're not careful, time will take away everything that ever hu...”
“I was headed for an entire life spent alone, pitying myself for not being more, ignoring all those people who actually ask me to be more, because they see it in me.”
“This is what I say: I've got good news and bad news.The good news is, you don't have to worry, you can't change the past.The bad news is, you don't have to worry, no matter how hard you try, you ca...”
“When you are thirteen, you spend all your time imagining what it would be like to live in a world where you could pay a robot for sex. And that sex would cost a dollar. And the only obstacle to get...”
“I don't know how, or whether it is even possible to predict what the world will look like the next day. I simply have to close my eyes, and wait until tomorrow in order to find out.”
“I hope you read this, whoever you are, and imagine that there is a hypothetical person out there who needs your love, has been waiting silently, patiently for it all his life, is flawed and downrig...”
“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 you to trust me. Trust yourself.”
“Within a science fictional space, memory and regret are, when taken together, the set of necessary and sufficient elements required to produce a time machine.”
“If you ever find yourself coming out of a time machine, run. Run away as fast you can. Don't stop. Don't try to talk. Nothing good can come out of it." narrator Charles Yu, not author Charles Yu p19”
“He liked to start sentences with okay, so. It was a habit he had picked up from the engineers. He thought it made him sound smarter, thought it made him sound like them, those code jockeys, standin...”
“He was always saying he deserved better. Better than this, anyway. I would nod and agree with him, but I never told him what I wanted to tell him, which was, hey, Deepak, when you say that you dese...”
“Things go backward.And then, one day, whatever it is we had, its gone. It wont come back. We both know it.Whatever it is she let me have, she has taken it away. Whatever it is when two people agree...”
“This is what you have to ask yourself: Do you want to be good, or just seem good? Do you want to be good to yourself and others? Do you care about other people, always, sometimes, never? Or only wh...”
“Desire is suffering. A simple equation, and a nice catchphrase. But flipped around, it is more troubling: suffering is desire.”
“Time isn't an orderly stream. Time isn't a placid lake recording each of our ripples. Time is viscous. Time is a massive flow. It is a self-healing substance, which is to say, almost everything wil...”
