Maybe we spend most of our decades being someone else, avoiding ourselves, maybe a man is only himself, his true self, for a few days in his entire life.
You can only go to places that you will let yourself go. - Charles Yu
You can only go to places that you will let yourself go.
- Charles Yu
We break ourselves up into parts. To lie to ourselves, to hide things from ourselves. You are not you. You are not what you think you are. You are bi… - Charles Yu
We break ourselves up into parts. To lie to ourselves, to hide things from ourselves. You are not you. You are not what you think you are. You are bi…
Most people I know live their lives moving in a constant forward direction, the whole time looking backward. - Charles Yu
Most people I know live their lives moving in a constant forward direction, the whole time looking backward.
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 ot… - Charles Yu
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 ot…
Enjoy the elastic present, which can accommodate as little or as much as you want to put in there. Stretch it out, live inside of it. - Charles Yu
Enjoy the elastic present, which can accommodate as little or as much as you want to put in there. Stretch it out, live inside of it.
You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits. - Charles Yu
You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits.
For the past several years, I have gone to sleep every night in this same little pocket, the most uneventful piece of time I could find. Same exact t… - 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 could find. Same exact t…
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 unti… - Charles Yu
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 unti…
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 the… - Charles Yu
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 the…
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