If you could read your life backward, or forward, you’d find the same themes running through it.
Charles Yu – How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
Reading Life Backward
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Books based on imaginary events, people, and places.
If you could read your life backward, or forward, you’d find the same themes running through it.
Charles Yu – How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
Memory is a machine that slows down, jams, sometimes gets stuck.
Charles Yu – How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
It turns out the hardest thing to do is to wait for someone to come back.
Charles Yu – How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
In a city of the future, it is difficult to concentrate.
Charles Yu – How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
Time is a machine: it will convert your pain into experience.
Charles Yu – How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
I am not my brain. I am not my thoughts. I am the net that can catch them.
Charles Yu – How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
A universe is just two people sitting in a room.
Charles Yu – How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
The end of the world happens every day, for someone.
Charles Yu – How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
Your life must move in such a way that it displaces the future.
Charles Yu – How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
We are all time travelers, we just don’t know it yet.
Charles Yu – How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe