The Slow Dissolve Quotes

“I fucking romanticize the idea of disappearing forever. I don’t mean checking out early, pulling a Hemingway with the shotgun, leaving a mess for the maid and a legacy for the critics to pick over like vultures on a roadside carcass. That’s too final. That’s too loud. I’m talking about the fade out. The slow dissolve. I’m talking about the Great Vanishing Act.”
― Lokesh Tuli, Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”

“There is a strange, narcotic kind of peace in the idea of starting over somewhere where no one expects a goddamn thing from you.”
― Lokesh Tuli, Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”

“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”

“You act like the star of your own movie because the alternative is too scary to face.

If you aren't the Main Character, then you're just... decaying meat.

That narcissism?

It’s just morphine for the soul.
You’re numbing the existential dread with likes and validation.

You’re making a lot of noise because you’re scared that if you stop talking, you’ll disappear.

And you know what? You might be right.”
― Lokesh Tuli, Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”

“Being in your 30's feels like standing in the middle of 100 open doors

And every single door is a completely different life. A different woman, a different mistake,

It looks like freedom, but it’s actually a goddamn hostage situation.

I’m just standing there in the center, paralyzed,

Because I know the second I step through one of them,

I have to listen to the other ninety-nine slam shut forever. So I better stay in the fucking hallway.”
― Lokesh Tuli, Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”

“I get it. I really do.

We’re the bleeding-heart romantics. We’re the ones cursed with the emotional bandwidth to actually appreciate the profound, devastating beauty of a dying sunset

It Makes you human, they say. Makes you special.

Well, I’ll tell ya what the fuck it actually is. It’s a bloody liability.It’s like bringing a bouquet of roses to a knife fight.

You want to feel things deeply? Fine.
But don't come cry when you realize the world doesn't play fair with fragile things.”
― Lokesh Tuli, Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”