Top 250 Alice Feeney Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “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

102. “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

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

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

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105. “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.”

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

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

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

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109. “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...”

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110. “Like my favorite resident says every time she sees me: the secret to having it all is knowing that you already do.”

— Alice Feeney

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

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112. “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

113. “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

114. “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.”

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115. “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

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

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

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118. “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

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 “The version of me you knew is several years out of date.”

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

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

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122. “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

123. “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.”

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

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125. “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

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

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

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128. “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

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

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130. “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.”

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

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132. “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

133. “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

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

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135. “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

136. “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

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

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138. “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

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

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

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

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142. “Dreams are like dresses in a shop window; they look pretty, but sometimes don’t fit when you try them on. Some are too small, others are too big. Luckily, my mother taught me how to sew, and dreams can be adjusted to fit, just like dresses.”

— Alice Feeney

143. “Clothes don’t make the woman, but they can help disguise the cloth we are cut from.”

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144. “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

145. “I never leave me alone with myself for too long; I can’t be trusted.”

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146. “There are some things we only hold on to because of who gave them to us: names, beliefs, scarves.”

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147. “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.”

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148. “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.”

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149. “I’ve heard people describe marriage as two missing pieces of a puzzle coming together, and discovering that they are a perfect fit. But that’s just wrong. People are different and that’s a good thing. Two pieces of different puzzles cannot and will not fit together, unless one has been forced to bend or break or change to fit around the other.”

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney