Behind You Quotes

“I feel like the world stopped. And I got off...and then it started spinning again, but too fast for me to hop back on. I feel like I'm still trying to get a...to get some kind of foothold on living”
― Jacqueline Woodson, Behind You

“Kids are something. All they can see is the beauty in a moment.”
― Jacqueline Woodson, Behind You

“Everything and everyone seemed like it was part of a long-ago time—when I was young and free and living.”
― Jacqueline Woodson, Behind You

“Feels like I've known him since before he got to the world—longer than he knew himself, truthfully. Seems like we'd been friends really...Somewhere before life on earth...”
― Jacqueline Woodson, Behind You

“Even if you turn your back on the world you left, you're still pulled toward it, you're still turning around--always--to look behind you. To make sure everyone's okay.”
― Jacqueline Woodson, Behind You

“When I sit down beside my mother, she shivers. When I touch Ellie's shoulders, she smiles like she knows it's me. Maybe she does. Who could have told me that the wind was some passed-on soul stopping to touch your face, your hands, your hair. Who knew a surprising cool breeze was someone who had gone before you saying, 'You're loved.”
― Jacqueline Woodson, Behind You