Top 250 Alice Feeney Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “I’ve hidden memories in boxes inside my head before. Sometimes it’s the only way to deal with things.”

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

53. “It’s just a memory of another time and place. Memories can’t hurt anyone, unless they are shared.”

— Alice Feeney

54. “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

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

— Alice Feeney

56. “Now I feel ashamed of myself for caring what they thought.”

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

58. “Don’t bother to make any new friends any more. I’ve learned it’s best to just hold on to what you’ve got.”

— Alice Feeney

59. “When someone you love becomes someone you can’t, it is the very worst kind of heartbreak.”

— Alice Feeney

60. “I’ve been returned to my factory settings as a human being, rather than a human doing.”

— Alice Feeney

61. “Nana used to say that if you don’t let the tears out of you they can turn to poison.”

— Alice Feeney

62. “I don’t know what to say to him. Sometimes I think it’s best to say nothing at all – silence cannot be misquoted.”

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

64. “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

65. “Life is like a game of chess; you just have to play it backwards and work out all the moves you need to make in advance, to get where you need to be.”

— Alice Feeney

66. “I bookmark that thought.”

— Alice Feeney

67. “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

68. “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

69. “Nana always said that books made better friends than people anyway. Books will take you anywhere if you let them, she used to say, and I think she was right.”

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

71. “Patience is the answer to so many of life’s questions.”

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

73. “We exchange the currency of our dreams for a reality funded by acceptance as we get older.”

— Alice Feeney

74. “Sono sfuggita al tempo e vorrei che mi ritrovasse.”

— Alice Feeney

75. “I doubt he felt the same way, but feelings don’t have to be mutual to be real.”

— Alice Feeney

76. “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

77. “The lyrics about trying to fix someone you love pull me back in time. Even back then he wanted to fix me, when I didn’t know I was broken. He’s still trying.”

— Alice Feeney

78. “Grief is only ever yours and so is guilt. It’s not something you can share.”

— Alice Feeney

79. “Mi rendo conto che lo ha fatto per se stesso: nessun uomo vuole guardare in faccia una donna con le guance rigate di lacrime, sapendo di esserne il responsabile.”

— Alice Feeney

80. “If you were to strip us all down to our purest intentions, the lowest common denominator would always be wanting to be listened to, needing to be heard above the noise of modern life.”

— Alice Feeney

81. “Sometimes when people try too hard to be more than they are, they end up being less than they were.”

— Alice Feeney

82. “Someone more broken than I am has come along. Even good people get tired of trying to mend what can’t be fixed.”

— Alice Feeney

83. “Memories are shapeshifters. Some bend, some twist, and some shrivel and die over time. But our worst ones never leave us.”

— Alice Feeney

84. “The dead are not so very far away when you really need them; they’re just on the other side of an invisible wall.”

— Alice Feeney

85. “The sad truth about our present always punctuates my happy memories of our past with full stops.”

— Alice Feeney

86. “Memories can’t hurt anyone, unless they are shared.”

— Alice Feeney

87. “People are not mirrors-they don’t see you how you see yourself.”

— Alice Feeney

88. “Sometimes I feel like everyone is happier than I am, as though they’re all in on a secret I’m not privy to.”

— Alice Feeney

89. “But then, isn’t love like breathing? Isn’t it instinct? Something we’re born knowing how to do? Or is love like speaking French? If nobody teaches you, you’ll never be fluent, and if you don’t practice you forget how...”

— Alice Feeney

90. “I bury the thoughts like I always do. Lock them in a secure secret box inside my head, push them to the darkest corner right at the back, and hope they won’t escape again any time soon.”

— Alice Feeney

91. “People might recognise my face, they may even know my name, but they’ll never know the real me. Nobody does. I’ve always been selfish with the true thoughts and feelings inside my head; I don’t share them with anyone. Because I can’t. There is a version of me I can only ever be with myself. I sometimes think the secret to success is the ability to adapt. Life rarely stays the same, and I’ve frequently had to reinvent myself in order to keep up.”

— Alice Feeney

92. “She was never a sociable woman. Her two best friends were wine and whiskey, and they were always there when she needed them. Nobody else knew about how much she drank. She hid her habit well, and I learned that the best way to keep a secret is never to tell. Like mother, like daughter.”

— Alice Feeney

93. “The version of me you knew is several years out of date.”

— Alice Feeney

94. “It’s the kind of love that makes me feel sad and empty, a love based on habit and dependence; it isn’t real.”

— Alice Feeney

95. “Some people are ghosts before they are dead.”

— Alice Feeney

96. “I can play all the parts life has cast me in, I know all my lines; I’ve been rehearsing for a very long time.”

— Alice Feeney

97. “I can feel myself falling in hate. It’s a lot like falling in love, but tends to happen harder and faster and often lasts a lot longer, too.”

— Alice Feeney

98. “The little pieces of me I got broken into yesterday start to creep and crawl back together. Sometimes I get lost in my own thoughts and fears. Trapped within a world of worry, which, deep down, I know only exists inside my head. Anxiety often screams louder than logic, and when you spend too long imagining the worst, you can make it come true.”

— Alice Feeney

99. “I remember looking up at that school, as though it were a prison I might never be allowed to leave. I wasn’t far wrong. There are some self-inflicted life sentences. We all carry prisons of regret inside our heads, unable to break free of the guilt and pain they cause us.”

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney