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 want everything. I want to give her everything—the world and the whole damn sky.”
― 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

“You don't have to tell me a damn thing, Hannah the Same Backward as Forward.' My voice is a rumble in my chest, an oath in the night. 'But whatever you want to give me, I'll take.'
I'm not just talking about right now-or just about her secrets. If she needs someone to hate, let it be me. If she needs someone to listen, I will hang on her every word. If she wants to scream but can't, I will scream my own throat raw.
And if all I can do for her is make it across these damn rocks to that lighthouse, then I don't care home much it hurts.”
― 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

“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

“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

“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 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

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

“Sometimes, when I look at you, I feel, like a hum in my bones whispering that we are the same.”
― 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

“New Castle. I told Hannah she had to find herself a new castle.”
― 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

“One thing about Avery, I think, watching her, mesmerized, she builds castles out of sugar.”
― 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

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

“See a mystery, solve it. See a wall, tear it down.”
― 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

“I know, despite the darkness in this room, that she is an ugly crier and the most beautiful thing in the world.”
― 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

“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

“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

“Promise me,” she says, “that you will live.”
― 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