Destructive Passion Quotes

“I don’t know how to like things. I only know how to obsess until I absolutely ruin them or they ruin me. There is no middle ground.”
― Lokesh Tuli, Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”

“I am inside her head, but I am utterly incapable of being in her life. We are best friends in the gutter and total strangers in the light.”
― Lokesh Tuli, Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”

“Some people don’t offer advice, they offer presence, and somehow that heals more.

The last thing you need is a lecture. I don't need a roadmap. I need a witness.

The friend who meets you at the bar at 2 AM and doesn't say a goddamn word about your mistakes.
Just slide a beer across the wood and sit there.

That’s the only medicine that works on a soul like mine.

Don't fix me. Just have a beer with me while I'm broken.”
― Lokesh Tuli, Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”

“You think intimacy is all bloody roses and holding hands in the park, do ya?

Bollocks!

You let a complicated, maddening woman into your life, and the next thing you know, your entire vocabulary is compromised.

Her cadence becomes your cadence.

It's the ultimate infiltration. Long after the meal is over, long after she is gone, you realize she has permanently altered change the way you speak. She's hijacked your syntax

But... you realize it's the only piece of 'her you've got left. And you wouldn't trade it for the world, would ya?”
― Lokesh Tuli, Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”

“Nothing you will become could ever disappoint me.

I don't have some grand, tragic preconception of what I want you to be or do.

I have absolutely no desire to try and foresee your next move!

That ain't my style.

My only plan is to stick around and discover you.”
― Lokesh Tuli, Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”