Top 300 Alice Feeney Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “The version of me you knew is several years out of date.”

— Alice Feeney

52. “My fingerprints are all over his heartbreak.”

— Alice Feeney

53. “Sometimes a curse can be a blessing.”

— Alice Feeney

54. “Marriage is either a winning lottery ticket or a straitjacket.”

— Alice Feeney

55. “I don’t have to see her face to know when she isn’t telling me the truth. You can feel it when someone you love is lying.”

— Alice Feeney

56. “Some people say that marriage is like wine and gets better with age, but I guess it all depends on the grapes. There are definitely years that were more pleasurable than others, and I’d have bottled them if I could.”

— Alice Feeney

57. “Rivers are like people. They change, they go where they have to. Sometimes they don’t look like themselves but they’re still who they are.”

— Alice Feeney

58. “The best lessons are often the ones we don’t realise we’re being taught.”

— Alice Feeney

59. “The world can seem less frightening when you don’t have to face it alone.”

— Alice Feeney

60. “Gossip is almost always jealousy’s love child.”

— Alice Feeney

61. “All people are addicts, and all addicts desire the same thing: an escape from reality. My job just happens to be my favorite drug.”

— Alice Feeney

62. “Being popular isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, people expect too much from you. Far better to blend in with the crowd, that way, when you do shine, people notice.”

— Alice Feeney

63. “You should only believe in what you want to believe, and you should always believe in yourself.”

— Alice Feeney

64. “Don’t waste your life wishing to be like someone else, decide who you are and be you.”

— Alice Feeney

65. “Albert Einstein once said that weak people revenge, strong people forgive, and intelligent people ignore. It was one of the few things he was wrong about. Success is the best revenge. Try to remember that.”

— Alice Feeney

66. “A mother’s least favourite child always knows that’s what they are.”

— Alice Feeney

67. “I can’t pretend to understand social media, either. I mean, I get it, I just don’t understand why so many people spend so much time engaging with it. It’s not real. Its just noise.”

— Alice Feeney

68. “Little girls are different from little boys: they’re made of sugar and spice and scar for life. I’ve still got my scars. Just because they’re on the inside doesn’t mean they’re not there.”

— Alice Feeney

69. “Sometimes I think I am the unreliable narrator of my own life. Sometimes I think we all are.”

— Alice Feeney

70. “There are residents in our lives, the ones who stay for years, and then there are the tourists just passing through. Sometimes it can be hard to tell the difference. 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. If you don’t let anyone get too close, they can’t hurt you.”

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

72. “The only good thing about losing everything, is the freedom that comes from having nothing left to lose.”

— Alice Feeney

73. “A lifetime ago this was the place I called home, but when I look back now, it feels like someone else’s life, not my own. I’m not the same person I was then.”

— Alice Feeney

74. “The world keeps on spinning, repeating itself over and over until something changes, which it doesn’t because we can’t.”

— Alice Feeney

75. “There are different kinds of love – one word could never accurately describe them all. Some are easier to feel than others, some are more dangerous. People say there’s nothing like a mother’s love – take that away and you’ll find there is nothing like a daughter’s hate.”

— Alice Feeney

76. “Sometimes we hold on too tight to the wrong people, until it hurts so much we have to let go.”

— Alice Feeney

77. “Books can be mirrors, too, offering a reflection of our worst selves for appraisal; lessons tucked between the pages, just waiting to be learned.”

— Alice Feeney

78. “People think that good and bad are opposites but they’re wrong, they’re just mirror images of one another in broken glass.”

— Alice Feeney

79. “Fear of the unknown is always greater than fear of the familiar.”

— Alice Feeney

80. “People will go to extraordinary lengths to hurt those they love; far more than they ever do for those they hate.”

— Alice Feeney

81. “It made me realize that people who do nothing are just as dangerous as those who do.”

— Alice Feeney

82. “A dispetto delle urla dentro di me, all’esterno sono muta e perfettamente immobile. Nella vita reale mi pagano per parlare alla radio, ma adesso sono ridotta al silenzio, non sono niente.”

— Alice Feeney

83. “Parents spend their youth trying to understand their children; children spend their adulthood trying to understand their parents.”

— Alice Feeney

84. “A lot of people would think I have a dream job, but nightmares are dreams too.”

— Alice Feeney

85. “If I’m stable, I presume that means I’m not going to die. Not yet anyway; we all die in the end, I suppose. Life is more terrifying than death in my experience. There’s little point fearing something so inevitable.”

— Alice Feeney

86. “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.”

— Alice Feeney

87. “Sometimes saying nothing says too much, but the words won’t come.”

— Alice Feeney

88. “We’ve all got so busy staring down at our screens that we’ve forgotten to look up at the stars.”

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

90. “But children are more resilient than adults. They’re far better at making the most of what they have, and spend less time worrying about what they haven’t.”

— Alice Feeney

91. “I’m starting to think that life is little more than a series of doors; every day we have to choose which ones to open, which to walk through, and which to close behind us, leaving them forever locked.”

— Alice Feeney

92. “La bocca reagisce con una smorfia, come se avesse appena assaggiato qualcosa di sgradevole, mentre aspetta che io ribatta. Non so che cosa dirgli. A volte penso che sia meglio non dire niente; il silenzio non rischia di essere frainteso.”

— Alice Feeney

93. “Sometimes it feels as though I live just below the surface, and everyone else lives above. When I try to be, and sound, and act like they do for too long, it feels like I can’t breathe. As though even my lungs were made differently, and I’m not able, or good enough to inhale the same air as the people I meet.”

— Alice Feeney

94. “If every story had a happy ending, then we’d have no reason to start again. Life is all about choices, and learning how to put ourselves back together when we fall apart. Which we all do. Even the people who pretend they don’t.”

— Alice Feeney

95. “I made it a habit not to forget anything or anyone, especially people who have wronged me. What I lack in forgiveness I make up for in patience. And I pay attention to the little things, because they are often the biggest clues to who a person really is. People rarely see themselves the way others do; we all carry broken mirrors.”

— Alice Feeney

96. “The woman wore her bitterness like a badge; the kind of person who writes one-star book reviews.”

— Alice Feeney

97. “Insomnia has become a bad habit I can’t break. Every day seems to start backwards – I wake up tired and go to bed feeling wide awake.”

— Alice Feeney

98. “I bookmark that thought.”

— Alice Feeney

99. “Mum says it is important to look your best, because even if people shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, they still do.”

— Alice Feeney

100. “Even if I could remember my way back to normal, I don’t think I’d recognise myself when I got there.”

— Alice Feeney