Rock Paper Scissors

by Alice Feeney

words don’t come with gift receipts and you can’t take them back.

All people are addicts, and all addicts desire the same thing: an escape from reality.

For the first time in my life, I found someone who loved me for being me, and didn’t want to change who that was. I could finally be myself and write my own story, without fear of being abandoned or replaced.

The best lessons are often the ones we don’t realize we’re being taught.

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

We can’t, and don’t, and shouldn’t try to hold on to everyone that we meet, and I’ve met a lot of tourists in my life, people I should have kept at a safe distance.

Few people are genuinely capable of forgiveness, and nobody ever really forgets.

We are our parents’ echoes and sometimes they don’t like what they hear.