Top 300 Alice Feeney Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “We exchange the currency of our dreams for a reality funded by acceptance as we get older.”

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

104. “Tiny violins always sound loudest to those playing them.”

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

106. “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

107. “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

108. “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

109. “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

110. “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

111. “A smile doesn’t mean someone is happy, just like tears don’t always mean someone is sad. Our faces lie just as often as our words do.”

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

113. “The trouble with little white lies is that they sometimes grow up to become big dark ones.”

— Alice Feeney

114. “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

115. “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

116. “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

117. “When you love someone, you can’t just turn it off, there isn’t a switch. Even if you hate someone that you once loved, there is still a little bit of love there. Love is like the soil that hate needs in order to grow. I think it’s rare in relationships to have one without the other.”

— Alice Feeney

118. “People who get to know the real me are the ones I need to learn to hide from the most.”

— Alice Feeney

119. “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

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

— Alice Feeney

121. “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

122. “This is a familiar family dance, and we all know the steps.”

— Alice Feeney

123. “I’ve read it before, but it brings a curious sense of comfort to slip it inside my bag. As I leave the shop, and the world of fiction, behind, it feels as if I’m taking a little bit of fantasy with me. A talisman made of paper and words to help ward off reality.”

— Alice Feeney

124. “Sometimes the things that make one person sad are the same things that can make another person happy.”

— Alice Feeney

125. “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

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

— Alice Feeney

127. “There is a difference between being and feeling alone, and it is possible to miss someone and be with them at the same time.”

— Alice Feeney

128. “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

129. “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

130. “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

131. “I’ve become so many different versions of myself trying to please other people, that I no longer know who I am.”

— Alice Feeney

132. “I turn away, I can’t look at her anymore. It took a lot of love to hate her the way I do.”

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

134. “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

135. “Where does the love go when someone dies? Their last breath disappears into the atmosphere, their body gets buried in the ground, but where does the love go? If love is real, it must go somewhere.”

— Alice Feeney

136. “It’s as though I’ve lived lots of different lives in one lifetime, and the one I shared with him was never meant to last for ever.”

— Alice Feeney

137. “After you died, I couldn’t sleep. Sometimes it felt like I couldn’t breathe, and I’ve struggled to draw, or paint, or write. Grief can change a person into someone even they can’t recognize.”

— Alice Feeney

138. “The sound of the cork being pulled from the bottle is less satisfying than normal. I hold it in my fingers for a second. From some angles it still looks perfect, you’d never know it was so damaged on the inside.”

— Alice Feeney

139. “Instinct tells me to close my eyes and I plunge myself back into the darkness, back to my world of being seen but not heard.”

— Alice Feeney

140. “I want people to like me, so being myself is never an option.”

— Alice Feeney

141. “It’s always important to have adventures, even if only in your imagination. Sometimes those are the best adventures of all.”

— Alice Feeney

142. “Funny how something so small can do so much damage and still look exactly the same.”

— Alice Feeney

143. “Each one of us is sitting here with a motive today. 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. For once, I don’t want to be the one asking the questions; I wish someone would listen to my answers and tell me whether my version of the truth is still correct. Sometimes the right thing to do is wrong, but that’s just life.”

— Alice Feeney

144. “Sometimes home is more of a memory than a place.”

— Alice Feeney

145. “Not all broken moral compasses are beyond repair. Some can start to work again with an ethical shake from another person. We all travel alone inside our own heads, but it is possible to navigate someone’s intentions north of bad and south of wrong. People can change, they just tend to choose not to.”

— Alice Feeney

146. “We make moments with our families. Sometimes we stitch them together over time, to make more of them than they were. We share them and hold on to them together as if they were treasure, even when they start to rust. Sometimes those moments change shape in our memories, sometimes we stop being able to see them how they really were.”

— Alice Feeney

147. “This job isn’t about making friends, it’s about not making enemies.”

— Alice Feeney

148. “We thought we had so little then, but we had it all, we were just too young and dumb to know it.”

— Alice Feeney

149. “Sometimes I find the only way to ease the worst forms of pain is to damage myself in a different way. Distract my attention from the things that can and will break me. A little hurt to help me heal.”

— Alice Feeney

150. “Youth fools us into thinking there are infinite paths to choose from in life; maturity tricks us into thinking there is only one.”

— Alice Feeney