Chalance Quotes

“Let me let you in on a little secret, a profound truth passed down from the drunken poets and the great gamblers who built the very concept of romance: the whole point of life is chalance.”
― Lokesh Tuli, Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”

“You only get so many meals. You only get so many sunsets. You only get so many chances to look someone in the eye and say, 'I am entirely, desperately here with you, and I give a profound, earth-shattering shit about this.”
― Lokesh Tuli, Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”

“I want her sharp. I want her cunning. I want to look at her across a room full of plastic smiles and hollow conversations and think: She is out of my league in ways I don't even understand yet.”
― Lokesh Tuli, Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”

“Why do I film this?

I film the sunset, the coffee, the street…

Why can’t I just look at the view and let it be enough?
Because I think we as humans are terrified of experiencing beauty alone.
If I stand here and feel this joy, but nobody sees it... did it really happen?
We are constantly building an alibi to prove we actually lived.”
― Lokesh Tuli, Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”

“The strangest, most heartbreaking part about nostalgia is that the moments that actually haunt you felt completely ordinary when you were living them.

It’s just driving to the grocery store with the windows down.

It’s her burning the toast on a Tuesday morning and laughing about it.

While you were living it, it was just another boring Tuesday. You had no idea that you were standing right in the middle of a masterpiece.”
― Lokesh Tuli, Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”