back the way
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That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.
Every night when I go to bed I think, In the morning I will wake up in my own house and things will be back the way they were. It hasn't happened this morning, either.
The sad truth is that certain types of things can't go backward. Once they start going forward, no matter what you do, they can't go back the way they were. If even one little thing goes awry, then that's how it will stay forever.
Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.
And so these parties divided upon that midnight plain, each passing back the way the other had come, pursuing as all travelers must inversions without end upon other men' s journeys.
You can't tuck your hair back the way you would, you can't wipe away tears the way you would, because you've got nails that are an inch long. All your mannerisms change easily, when you have inch-long acrylic nails.