We Go Back Like Quotes Novels & Stories

An hour before the college application deadline, I jolt awake in my hotel room in Chanont. My girlfriend, Evelyn Keate, and my adopted brother, Marvin Needham, are nowhere to be seen. I immediately call them, reminding them to get their applications in before the deadline. To my surprise, they burst out laughing. "We're already back home, and we got our applications in last night. You still haven't submitted yours?" I can hear my parents criticizing me in the background. My mom said, "He's always like this. He's so careless that he doesn't even take his own future seriously." "Marvin has always been so much easier," my dad remarked. Laughter and chatter fill the other end of the line

“Come back to me, Jack. We need you now more than ever. *********************

I heard a murmuring after. "Lucky bastard!" "Shit why can't she look at me" "What does she see in him?" "Why not me?" And so on and so forth. After the bell ring, I collected my things and went outside as fast as I can. I went to the parking area and I took a sit on the hood of my car. My friends came to me. "Dude, your one lucky guy!" Matthew said to me "What?" I asked in confusion "You know! Don't be too cocky man!" He add

"I'll be back." TBC

He's right. There's no going back. ---

All the memories fade into sparks of light as they fall onto V4 and Cynthia as they both once again find themselves in Rhane's church standing next to the altar. " Purple scabs Kiss me tenderly gently violently" V4 and Cynthia harmonized again for a moment. " There's no undo and there's no repeat" Cynthia shook her head as she reminded him. V4" Can't go back to how we used to be." V4 leans down closer to her, lips just an inch away. " There's no restart but only proceed Take up from where we've left off and see"

Now there's no going back. No holding back.

A ghost of a similar conversation, a lifetime ago. Further on, another couple was having a tiff. The girl, arms crossed, said, "Every time you mess up, I take a step back. One day, I'll have stepped so far you won't see me anymore." The boy looked panicked. "Babe, don't say that! That's just internet talk!" *Every time you mess up, I take a step back.* The phrase lodged in my ribcage, a dull, throbbing ache. I walked for blocks, the noise of the city a blur.

“Then we might go back to the stars.” A pause. A wink. “Key word: might.”

“Are you from around here?” “No.” “Okay, that’s a good start.” “Why are you asking?” asked Emily, noticing that he was sitting closer to her. “Well, I got to help you find your uncles and the only way to do that is to find out how to get you back. The only way to do that is to backtrack.” “Backtrack.” “Yes. It means we need to traces your footsteps to see where you came from-” “I know what backtrack means by the way," said Emily. She slide herself deeper into the jacket.