I Know Who You Are

by Alice Feeney

In order to get satisfaction from fixing something, you either have to leave it broken for a while first, or break it again yourself.

I wonder where other people go when they turn off the lights at night. Do they all drift and dream? Or are there some, like me, who wander somewhere dark and cold within themselves, digging around inside the shadows of their blackest thoughts and fears, clawing away at the dirt of memories they wish they could forget?

lies don’t come with gift receipts; you can’t take them back.

lust is only ever a temporary cure for loneliness.

We all sometimes pretend to love something or someone we don’t: an unwanted gift, a friend’s new haircut, a husband.

You should always fight, especially when you think you are going to lose. That’s when you should fight the hardest.’

We’ve all got so busy staring down at our screens, that we’ve forgotten to look up at the stars.

The modern world has made prisoners of us all; only fools think they are free.

Sometimes you have to fall hard enough for it to hurt, to know when to pick yourself up. You can’t start to put yourself back together if you don’t even know that you’re broken.

Your past only owns you if you allow it to.

A thick skin can wear thin when worn too often.

The world we live in today is too loud, so that most people think they have to shout all the time just to fit in.

Life is a game that few of us really know how to play, filled with more snakes than ladders.

You’ll only fall if you forget you can fly.’

We all avoid the truth when we think it might hurt too much.