A Series of Rooms Quotes

“I think I may accidentaly love you.”
― A.J. Barlowe, A Series of Rooms

“I'm okay", he promised, tamping down on the small voice inside him that wanted to cry out, help me, help me, help me.”
― A.J. Barlowe, A Series of Rooms

“For weeks, they had been climbing higher and higher, every accidental brush of skin, every smile, every laugh, every secret bolstering the wind beneath their wax wings until they had flown too close to the sun. The view from the ground was unforgiving.”
― A.J. Barlowe, A Series of Rooms

“I didn’t know.”
“How could you have known.”
“I couldn’t have.”
― A.J. Barlowe, A Series of Rooms

“The idea of Liam existing in the future that Jonah had no part in sat heavy on his chest. He always knew that was the plan. That it would be naive to expect anything different. But is was harder thinking about it in such concrete turns. Liam getting into the art school, Liam saving the money to move, Liam moving on. Forging the future and leaving Jonah stagnant and stale. A distant memory in the past. Just a part of his story, a series of friday nights strung together during one strange autumn. And the boy he left there in the end.”
― A.J. Barlowe, A Series of Rooms

“Would he, by then, no longer hold himself like he was taking to much space in the world.”
― A.J. Barlowe, A Series of Rooms

“You are the best friend I ever had.” He didn’t dare to turn his head to Liam’s reaction. They both kept their eyes on the ceiling. Even when Liam’s pinky unlashed from his just long enough to slide his palm fully over Jonahs, lacing all their fingers together. He gave a squeeze and Jonah gave it right back.
“Yeah. You are mine too.”
― A.J. Barlowe, A Series of Rooms

“I just hate seeing you like this. I hate knowing what you go back to when you leave here.”
“It's not always like this.”
“The fact that that it is sometimes like this is bad enough.”
― A.J. Barlowe, A Series of Rooms

“Before, his misplace trust cost him everything. This time, he had nothing more to lose.”
― A.J. Barlowe, A Series of Rooms

“If Chicago was the place where Jonah had learned how to survive, New York was where he learned how to live.”
― A.J. Barlowe, A Series of Rooms

“Jonah leaned his head against the window for the remaining few minutes of the drive, grieving for the boy he lost, the boy he had been inside the safety of their bubble, and the goodbye he’d never get to say.”
― A.J. Barlowe, A Series of Rooms

“It was Liam’s twenty-first birthday, and he wanted nothing more than to go home.”
― A.J. Barlowe, A Series of Rooms