Phantom Ex Quotes

“What do you mean we never dated, and yet I am still not over you?”
― Lokesh Tuli, Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”

“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”

“It is the most wicked torture of the modern age—to be completely, violently shattered by someone who technically owes you absolutely nothing!”
― Lokesh Tuli, Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”

“I don’t remember your middle name, but I remember the way the light hit your hair and how the world paused when you smiled.”
― 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”

“There is something freeing about being a little difficult to define.

When people ask you the inevitable, boring question—'So, what do you do?’

and you don't have a neat sentence ready,

You are no longer a noun; you are a verb.

You are moving, eating, grieving, seeing.

You’re too F*CKING loud, too F*CKING broken.

You are a collection of scars and stories that don't fit on a business card.”
― Lokesh Tuli, Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”