“Yu only be livin one life, darlin. Don't matter yu don't uh-preshie-ate part of it, cos it don't stop bein part of yu.”

“Yu can't live if yu dead, neither. Yu probly too smart to get dat.”

“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”

“A few years ago if yu said yu were GreenYu were really seen as Red.”

“Perhaps at twenty, one is naturally curious about life, but at thirty, simply suspicious of anyone who still has one.”

“A girl like me gets stopped at immigration.”

“I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us. ”