The Same Backward as Forward Quotes

“Call me sentimental, but there’s something beautiful about anything built for one purpose that refuses to die, even once that purpose is gone.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Same Backward as Forward

“I’m glad,” Jackson says behind me, “that I got more than three days this time.” He takes a heavy breath. “Horrible boy.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Same Backward as Forward

“She closes the gap and renders the rest of the universe nonexistent, and as my lips part for hers, I remember that one of my earliest thoughts in this life was that kissing her might kill me, but if this takes me out, I will consider it a life well-lived.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Same Backward as Forward

“I want everything. I want to give her everything—the world and the whole damn sky.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Same Backward as Forward

“Tell me, then, what do I want?”
Jackson snorts. “A swift kick in the ass?”
“The rest of me is battered and burned to a crisp. Leave my ass alone.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Same Backward as Forward

“Sometimes you have to lose a few battles to win the war. -Toby Hawthorne”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Same Backward as Forward

“I’m the boy lying on a ratty mattress on the floor, and she is the girl above me, and the only mystery I need to solve is her. Let the real games begin.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Same Backward as Forward

“I get the sense,” I say, matching her quiet with my own, “that I don’t know how to want anything anymore.” Except for you. I prefer thinking to feeling, prefer puzzling to longing, but there is something in her that calls to something in me.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Same Backward as Forward

“Avery.” I didn’t plan on suggesting a name, but the perfect one is right there, and it fits us—Hannah and me. “Avery Kylie Grambs.” I look from the baby to Hannah. “Rearrange the letters.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Same Backward as Forward

“I hate you for leaving and only for leaving, and, for the record? I love you, too.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Same Backward as Forward

“Leave with me, Hannah the Same Backward as Forward. Come with me, and I will show you castles. I will give you the world and the whole damn sky.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Same Backward as Forward

“I would die before I would leave her behind.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Same Backward as Forward

“I know: This is happening. I know: She is the beginning and the end and everything in between for me.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Same Backward as Forward

“I will not be another reason for shadows in her eyes. I will not be another invisible scar that marks her. I do not get to die.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Same Backward as Forward

“Sometimes you have to lose a few battles to win the war.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Same Backward as Forward

“need her. I need to look at her eyes again. I need it the way a storm needs to rage, the way an open vein needs to bleed. I need her like needing her is the natural order of things, like needing her is what I exist to do.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Same Backward as Forward

“The world takes, and it takes, and it takes and we burn, and we burn, and we burn-and it's never enough”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Same Backward as Forward

“And because I’ve been writing postcards to you, too. I’ve been sending them to Jackson, in case you ever decided to go back there.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Same Backward as Forward

“One thing about Avery, I think, watching her, mesmerized, she builds castles out of sugar.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Same Backward as Forward

“And there she is, exhausted but awake, alive and well and holding her daughter. Our baby girl.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Same Backward as Forward

“I lead him on a chase that is not, by any definition, merry, and occasionally, when the life I am living on the run takes me through a place that feels a little magical, a place that makes me think of Hannah, I buy—or steal—a postcard. I write to her—in invisible ink, messages I will never send. I sign them from Harry.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Same Backward as Forward

“New Castle. I told Hannah she had to find herself a new castle.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Same Backward as Forward

“Promise me,” she says, “that you will live.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Same Backward as Forward

“I don’t care about who I was before. I don’t care about that life. I care about this one.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Same Backward as Forward

“Come with me, Hannah the Same Backward as Forward. When I leave, come with me.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Same Backward as Forward

“As far as I’m concerned, Hannah the Same Backward as Forward, you’re the storm.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Same Backward as Forward

“Once upon a time, there was you.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Same Backward as Forward

“You’re going to kill me, everything girl.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Same Backward as Forward

“The world takes, and it takes, and it takes, and we burn, and we burn, and we burn—and it’s never enough.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Same Backward as Forward

“She hates me. I am the object of her wrath, but she will keep coming back. I need her to keep coming back.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Same Backward as Forward