Liminal Romance Quotes

“While the girl to my right places one final bet. She's praying I carry the cash for the room, As we hide from the dawn and the impending gloom.”
― 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”