Charlotte

“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.”
― Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

“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 of time travel is the unaided kind. People get stuck, people get looped. People get trapped. But we are all time machines.”
― Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

“I do not know everything; still many things I understand.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time