Magic for Liars

by Sarah Gailey

Nobody decides to become the kind of person who will stab a stranger in order to get at what’s inside her pockets. That’s a choice life makes for you.

I’ve never been good at recognizing what moments are important. What things I should hang on to while I’ve got them.

We spend most of our students’ freshman year teaching them that words have power, and we don’t waste that power if we can help it.”