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• Janine
• Ivan
• Tina
• Henry
• Betty
• Patricia
• Wally
• Mr. K.
• Brandon
• Harold
• Nathan/Moisture Man
• Golden Boy
• Anna/Red Fury
• Zero C
• Johnnie Blade
• A
• B
• S
• J
• Me
• My Mother
• Jake/My Brother
• the boss
• Florence
• Mrs. K.
• Man of Quiet Desperation

Quotes edit see section history

• “I have a small heart, a dark heart, a heart filled with exactly equal amounts of good and evil, one that is weak and will only take us so far, but for now it propels us higher and higher and higher.”

  Nathan/Moisture Man

• “People are dying and my generation just does not care. Including me. But I want to care. I really want to. I want to care so bad.”

  Eric, 27, investment banker

• “Some marriages are driven by love, some by gravity.”

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• before the mind had learned to tell a fake story called consciousness and developed anxiety when it invented time, and danger, and risk, and probability, and the future.

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• And it occurs to him that things don't just occur to people, like in stories. People always know everything there is to know about themselves, never any less. Everything is a secret that everyone knows. A secret that no one knows they know. To smile is the greatest mystery possible, to smile is to tell a secret, is to tell a lie from your head and a truth from your heart together, in one word—the conjugation of the terrifying present, the perfect past, the conditional future all in a single wordless word in the eternal, tenseless grammar.

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• My wife wants me to quit. She says it's killing me. She's wrong. It's already killed me.

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Charles Yu (Author)

Awards edit see section history

• National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” Award (2007)

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 813.6

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Literature & Fiction › Short Stories › United States
• Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › United States
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary