Top 300 Alice Feeney Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “Clothes don’t make the woman, but they can help disguise the cloth we are cut from.”

— Alice Feeney

152. “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

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

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

156. “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

157. “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

158. “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

159. “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

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

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

164. “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

165. “As I look up at the night sky, it seems almost inconceivable to me that something so magical is always there. We’re all too busy looking down to remember to look up at the stars. It makes me sad when I think about all the things I might have already missed out on in life, but I plan to change that.”

— Alice Feeney

166. “Fear and imagination can lead the brightest of people down dark paths.”

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

169. “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

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

— Alice Feeney

171. “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

172. “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

173. “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

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

— Alice Feeney

175. “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

176. “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

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

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

179. “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

180. “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

181. “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

182. “The lies we tell ourselves are always the most dangerous.”

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

184. “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

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

— Alice Feeney

186. “I can’t think clearly when life gets too loud.”

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

188. “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

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. “We are supposed to love our family. It’s an unspoken rule. Whenever I see pictures of other families, their happy faces all covered in matching smiles, I find myself wondering whether it is real. Or if the happiness they’re portraying is simply a mask worn for the sake of others.”

— Alice Feeney

191. “In real life he was a collection of unfinished sentences.”

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

193. “People rarely see themselves the way others do; we all carry broken mirrors.”

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

196. “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

197. “The ocean continues to serenade my unsettled thoughts, as though trying to silence them with the relentless shh of the sea.”

— Alice Feeney

198. “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

199. “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

200. “Affection is like playing the piano and you can forget how to do it without practice.”

— Alice Feeney