Top 250 Alice Feeney Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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

102. “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

103. “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

104. “It might be true that the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, but sometimes the apple can roll down a hill, far, far away from where it landed.”

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105. “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

106. “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.”

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

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108. “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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109. “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

110. “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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111. “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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112. “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

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

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

115. “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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116. “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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117. “A mother’s least favourite child always knows that’s what they are.”

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

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120. “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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121. “Life is like a game where pawns can become queens, but not everyone knows how to play. Some people stay pawns their whole lives because they never learned to make the right moves. This is just the beginning. Nobody has played their cards yet because they didn’t know they were being dealt.”

— Alice Feeney

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

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

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124. “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.”

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

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126. “Even when I do remember where, I don’t know when I am anymore.”

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127. “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

128. “Nostalgia is a dangerous drug, but I enjoy the sensation of happier memories flooding my mind.”

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

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130. “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

131. “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

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

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133. “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

134. “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

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

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136. “The tap of grief never turns off completely. It allows a person’s sorrow to slowly drip inside them until they are so unbearably full of sadness, they have no choice but to let it flow freely and pour out. Drowning every other thought and feeling.”

— Alice Feeney

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

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138. “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 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

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

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141. “Sometimes even I don’t like to see the me that I become when nobody else is looking.”

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

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

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144. “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

145. “When you hold on too tight to something, it can start to hurt.”

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146. “It was a small ceremony; I’ve never had many friends. The truth is I just don’t like many people, not really. Everyone you meet is inevitably flawed. Once I know someone well enough to see all the cracks and blemishes, I don’t really want to spend time with them anymore.”

— Alice Feeney

147. “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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148. “We spend our youth building sandcastles of ambition, then watch as life blows sands of doubt over our carefully crafted turrets of wishes and dreams, until we can no longer see them at all. We learn to settle instead for flattened lives, residing inside prisons of compromise.”

— Alice Feeney

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

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150. “Trust can’t be borrowed; if you take it away, you can’t give it back.”

— Alice Feeney