I Know Who You Are

by Alice Feeney

Not everybody wants to be somebody. Some people just want to be somebody else.

hiding in stories that have happier endings than my own; we are what we read.

Everybody who has ever loved has also fought.

Not everybody wants to be somebody. Some people just want to be somebody else.

But money is a Band-Aid, not a cure for broken hearts and promises.

I built my prison in the way that people often do, with solid walls made from bricks of guilt and obligation.

Sorry is easier to say than it is to feel.

Papering over the cracks doesn’t mean they’re not there, but life is prettier when you do.

Ignorance isn’t bliss; it’s fear postponed to a later date.

Sometimes we pretend not to understand things that we do.

It’s a strange feeling when buried memories float to the surface without warning. Like having all the air sucked out of your lungs, then being dropped from a great height; the perpetual sense of falling combined with the unavoidable knowledge that you’re going to hit something hard.

He said things that are a little bit broken can still be beautiful.

Sometimes it only takes one person to believe in you to change your life forever.

We are all conditioned and fine-tuned to our own unique brand of normal; we wear it like a fingerprint. We’re taught to fit in with others and learn what is expected of us from the moment we are born. Everything we ever do is an act.

You can’t allow the past to steal your present, but if you siphon off just the right amount, it can help fuel your future.

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

She-Ra is a princess of power and my new favorite thing. She lives in a castle, flies around on a horse, and stops bad people from doing bad things. I would like to be like She-Ra when I grow up.

We’ve all got so busy staring down at our screens that we’ve forgotten to look up at the stars. I think it can be dangerous to spend too long watching the lives of others; you might run out of time to live your own. Technology is devolving the human race. Eating up our emotional intelligence, spitting out any remnants of privacy it can’t quite swallow. The world will keep on spinning and the stars will always shine, regardless of whether anyone is looking.

Each walking, talking, thinking, feeling human star has its own planets revolving around it: parents, children, friends, lovers. Sometimes stars get too big, too hot, too dangerous, and the planets closest to them burn to oblivion.

We are all just stars trying to shine in the darkness.

All stars are born to die.

Susan brought in a tin of Quality Street for us all to share, pretending to be kind, but she’d already taken out all the toffee pennies, which are the best ones. So she clearly can’t be trusted.

It’s okay to sometimes do the wrong thing in life, so long as you accept the consequences,

You can’t find a butterfly if you’re only looking for a caterpillar.

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