Sometimes I Lie

by Alice Feeney

I hate hospitals. They are the home of death and regrets that missed their slots, not somewhere I would ever choose to visit, let alone stay.

being honest with yourself is more important than being honest with others.

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

Sometimes the right thing to do is wrong, but that’s just life.

The best thing about being a bird is that you can always fly away.

I have escaped time and I wish it would find me again. It has

a smell of its own, time. Like a familiar room. When it’s no longer your own you crave it, you salivate and you hunger for it, you realize you’d do anything to have it back. Until it is yours again, you steal stolen seconds and gobble up misused minutes, sticking them all together to make a delicate chain of borrowed time, hoping it will stretch. Hoping it will be long enough to reach the next page. If there is a next page.

we all die in the end,

Life is more terrifying than death in my experience. There’s little point fearing something so inevitable.

The dead are not so very far away when you really need them; they’re just on the other side of an invisible wall. Grief is only ever yours and so is guilt. It’s not something you can share.

The truth is I just don’t like many people, not really. Everyone you meet is inevitably flawed.

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

stars can’t shine without darkness.

People think that good and bad are opposites but they’re wrong, they’re just a mirror image of each other in broken glass.