Modern Tragedy Quotes

“Being attached to someone you never actually had is a special kind of purgatory. It’s a waiting room in hell where the numbers are never called. You are a victim of a disaster that is entirely undocumented. You can't even claim the wreckage to the rest of the world, because technically, officially, the ship never sailed.”
― Lokesh Tuli, Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”

“There is the kind of death that puts you in the ground, and then there is the morning after you let someone you love go.”
― Lokesh Tuli, Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”

“I’m sorry I got away. I had to. I was terrified of a simple life and I was too young to know that you don't find people like you twice.”
― Lokesh Tuli, Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”

“You were the last person to see me before I put on the mask.”
― Lokesh Tuli, Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”

“Everybody thinks they're gonna get a polite, formally drafted two-week notice before the lights go out. It’s a tragic, hilarious joke. The Grim Reaper doesn't care about your schedule.”
― Lokesh Tuli, Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”

“Your death ain't gonna be some grand, dramatic exit. It will come on an ordinary, aggressively mundane day, right in the dead middle of your meticulously unfinished plans. You’re gonna drop dead on a random, unremarkable Tuesday afternoon. You’ll be in the middle of complaining about the traffic, or worrying about your 401k, or drafting an email to someone you don't even like. You're gonna leave behind a half-finished to-do list pinned to the fridge with a cheap magnet. There will be wet laundry sitting in the dryer. You will die with a whole lot of 'somedays' still tucked uselessly in your pocket.”
― Lokesh Tuli, Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”