Sometimes I Lie

by Alice Feeney

People are not mirrors—they don’t see you how you see yourself.

books made better friends than people anyway. Books will take you anywhere if you let them,

I don’t avoid broken people because I think I’m better than them, I just don’t like looking at my own reflection.

I don’t think my books want to leave this house, it’s their home and they should be allowed to stay here as long as they want.

History is a mirror and we’re all just older versions of ourselves; children disguised as adults.

We are all just ghosts of the people we hoped that we were and counterfeit replicas of the people we wanted to be.