Rock Paper Scissors

by Alice Feeney

To have wasted so much of our lives by not really living them makes me feel so sad.

when we first met. Or writeraholic as she likes to call it. All people are addicts, and all addicts desire the same thing: an escape from reality.

Believing in someone is one of the greatest gifts you can give them, it’s free and the results can be priceless.

Getting married costs a pretty penny, and pennies are prettiest when you don’t have many of them.

Some people say that marriage is like wine and gets better with age, but I guess it all depends on the grapes.

Affection is like playing the piano and you can forget how to do it without practice.

Sometimes it is best to let people think you will follow them, until you are certain that you won’t be lost on your own.

Enjoy the stories of other people’s lives, but don’t forget to live your own.

But not everything that gets broken can be repaired.

Life is like a game where pawns can become queens, but not everyone knows how to play. Some people stay pawns their whole lives because they never learned to make the right moves.

hornswoggle verb to get the better of someone by cheating or deception.

‘We don’t all want to rule the world, some of us just want to make it a better place.’

Secrets are only secrets for the people who don’t know them yet.

Too many people think the world owes them something, and blame others for their own poor life choices.

The reason why a person lies is almost always more interesting than the lie itself.

atelophobia noun the fear of not doing something right or the fear of not being good enough. An extreme anxiety of failure to achieve perfection.

If you never give up on something you can’t ever fail.

Dreams are like dresses in a shop window; they look pretty, but sometimes don’t fit when you try them on. Some are too small, others are too big. Luckily, my mother taught me how to sew, and dreams can be adjusted to fit, just like dresses.

When people talk about falling in love, I think they are right, it is like falling, and sometimes when we fall we can get very badly hurt.

schadenfreude noun pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction derived by someone from another person’s misfortune.

Rejection and real life teach us to fear, but if you want something badly enough, you have to take the leap.

Books can be mirrors for whoever holds them, and people don’t always like what they see.