Authentic Connection Quotes

“You want her to be the way you want her to be, rather than seeing her the way she is.”
― Calvin Niles, The Sun Rises in Eastmoor

“I want her sharp. I want her cunning. I want to look at her across a room full of plastic smiles and hollow conversations and think: She is out of my league in ways I don't even understand yet.”
― Lokesh Tuli, Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”

“The strangest, most heartbreaking part about nostalgia is that the moments that actually haunt you felt completely ordinary when you were living them.

It’s just driving to the grocery store with the windows down.

It’s her burning the toast on a Tuesday morning and laughing about it.

While you were living it, it was just another boring Tuesday. You had no idea that you were standing right in the middle of a masterpiece.”
― Lokesh Tuli, Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”