Top 250 Alice Feeney Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “People will go to extraordinary lengths to hurt those they love; far more than they ever do for those they hate.”

— Alice Feeney

52. “Some people build invisible walls around themselves in the name of self-preservation. Hers were always tall, solid, and impenetrable.”

— Alice Feeney

53. “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

54. “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

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

— Alice Feeney

56. “I’ve hidden memories in boxes inside my head before. Sometimes it’s the only way to deal with things.”

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

59. “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

60. “Sometimes the right thing to do is wrong, but that’s just life.”

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

62. “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

63. “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

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

— Alice Feeney

65. “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

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

— Alice Feeney

67. “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

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

— Alice Feeney

69. “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

70. “Most people can see the writing on the wall, even if they can’t always read what it says.”

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

72. “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

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

— Alice Feeney

74. “I bookmark that thought.”

— Alice Feeney

75. “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

76. “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

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

— Alice Feeney

78. “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

79. “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

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

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

84. “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

85. “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

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

— Alice Feeney

87. “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

88. “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

89. “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

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

— Alice Feeney

91. “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

92. “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

93. “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

94. “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

95. “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

96. “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

97. “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

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

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

100. “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