Top 250 Alice Feeney Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Tiny violins always sound loudest to those playing them.”

— Alice Feeney

152. “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

153. “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

154. “Being in a storm here, on this tiny island, feels like being on a rickety old ship in the middle of the sea, one that will surely sink if the waves get too high.”

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

156. “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

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

— Alice Feeney

158. “Stories teach us about our past, enrich our present, and can predict our future.”

— Alice Feeney

159. “But unresolved conflict spreads like a cancer in human relationships, and sometimes there’s no cure. Despite everything, I still have some happy memories of us all together, tucked away inside the folds and creases that forced us apart.”

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

161. “But marriage changes people whether they like it or not. You can’t unbreak an egg when you’ve already whisked it into an omelette.”

— Alice Feeney

162. “You’re not broken in my eyes, and you shouldn’t see yourself that way either. We are who we think we are, and there is so much beauty in imperfection.”

— Alice Feeney

163. “None of us know when we’re checking out – life isnt that kind of hotel.”

— Alice Feeney

164. “Anxiety often screams louder than logic, and when you spend too long imagining the worst, you can make it come true.”

— Alice Feeney

165. “I’ve also learned how to fit in, but constantly trying to do so is more than just uncomfortable now, it hurts. Because I don’t. Fit. I fold my jagged edges inside myself and smooth over the most obvious differences between us, but I am not the same as you. There are over 7 billion people on the planet, and yet I have somehow managed to spend a lifetime feeling alone.”

— Alice Feeney

166. “Books saved me, and I ran away inside the stories I read as a child. They were the only place where I could run, and swim, and dance without fear of falling and not being able to get back up. Books were full of friends and adventures, whereas my real childhood was cold, and dark, and horribly lonely.”

— Alice Feeney

167. “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

168. “My dear, I’d rather be dead than normal.”

— Alice Feeney

169. “I’ve always felt safe in bookshops. It’s as though the stories inside them can rescue me from myself and the rest of the world. A literary sanctuary filled with shelves of paper-shaped parachutes, which will save you when you fall.”

— Alice Feeney

170. “The version of myself I wear in public is far more attractive than the real me. It’s been carefully tailored, a cut above my standard self; she’s someone nobody should see.”

— Alice Feeney

171. “Gossip is almost always jealousy’s love child.”

— Alice Feeney

172. “Everybody has a mother, but not everybody has a mother’s love.”

— Alice Feeney

173. “Books have always made me feel safe, something to hide inside when the real world gets too dark.”

— Alice Feeney

174. “I try to Control-Alt-Delete the thought, as always, but the keys in my mind get stuck.”

— Alice Feeney

175. “She wonders about that a lot: why people only learn to live in the moment when the moment has passed.”

— Alice Feeney

176. “Tell a person they’re wrong, and they’ll cover their ears. Tell a person they’re right, and they’ll listen to you all day long.”

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

178. “We weave our lives out of threads of opportunity and stitches of chance, nobody wants a future full of holes.”

— Alice Feeney

179. “We are all conditioned and fine-tuned to our own unique brand of normal; we wear it like a fingerprint. We’re taught to fit in with others and learn what is expected of us from the moment we are born. Everything we ever do is an act.”

— Alice Feeney

180. “But I have realized recently that words are just words, a series of letters, arranged in a certain order, most likely in the language we were assigned at birth. People are careless with their words nowadays. They throw them away in a text or a tweet, they write them, pretend to read them, twist them, misquote them, lie with, without, and about them. They steal them, then they give them away. Worst of all, they forget them. Words are only a value if we remember how to feel what they mean.”

— Alice Feeney

181. “If you don’t go looking for trouble it won’t find you. Stop fretting. Everything will be all right in the end. If it isn’t, then it isn’t the end yet.”

— Alice Feeney

182. “Our thoughts and feelings are there to be expressed and they are our own: unique. I don’t feel the same way as you about the world, and that’s fine. We’re not designed to always think and feel the same. We are not sheep. Agreeing with someone about something is a choice, try to remember that. Don’t waste your life wishing to be like someone else, decide who you are and be you.”

— Alice Feeney

183. “Silence cannot be misquoted.”

— Alice Feeney

184. “All I ever seem to do is disappoint him.”

— Alice Feeney

185. “The errors of judgement lined up like dominoes after that, each knocking the next one down.”

— Alice Feeney

186. “I’m not saying everything is perfect, there’s no such thing. Marriage is hard work sometimes. It can also be heartbreaking, and sad, but any relationship worth having is worth fighting for. People have forgotten how to see the beauty in imperfection. I cherish what we have now, despite it being bloodied and a little torn around the edges. At least what we have is real.”

— Alice Feeney

187. “Sometimes love and hate get tangled, and there is no way to unpick the knot of feelings we feel.”

— Alice Feeney

188. “The lies we tell for love are the lightest shade of white.”

— Alice Feeney

189. “I’ve always thought that the best way to truly know a person is to listen to them. Not just to what they say, but to what they don’t. All sorts of secrets are neatly tucked inside the silent gaps between words. The simple act of listening is a forgotten art in our loud world.”

— Alice Feeney

190. “A lot of people grow old, but they don’t all grow up.”

— Alice Feeney

191. “Denial is often a down payment for future heartbreak.”

— Alice Feeney

192. “The branches of our family tree all grew in different directions, and it’s best to avoid the stormy subjects that might make them bend or break.”

— Alice Feeney

193. “You should only believe in what you want to believe, and you should always believe in yourself.”

— Alice Feeney

194. “I do know that the lies we tell ourselves are always the most dangerous. And I know that sometimes the thoughts we hide in the margins of our minds are the most honest, because they are ours alone, and we think nobody else will see them.”

— Alice Feeney

195. “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. A little relieved that the windows of the world we settled for are too small to see out of, so we don’t have to stare at the castle-shaped fantasies of who we might have been.”

— Alice Feeney

196. “You need to learn to make your own way in life, the world doesn’t owe you anything, and neither do I.”

— Alice Feeney

197. “The only nobodies in this world are the people who pretend to be somebody; the people who think they are better than other people because of the way they choose to look, or speak, or vote, or pray, or love. People are not the same but different, they are different but the same.’ I was too young to understand what she meant at the time, but I think I do now.”

— Alice Feeney

198. “And people can make a hobby out of hate. The more they practice, the better they get.”

— Alice Feeney

199. “We weren’t always the people we are now, but our memories of the past can make liars of us all. That’s why I’m focusing on the future.”

— Alice Feeney

200. “The only nobodies in this world are the people who pretend to be somebody; the people who think they are better than other people because of the way they choose to look, or speak, or vote, or pray, or love.”

— Alice Feeney