Top 250 Alice Feeney Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “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.”

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152. “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.”

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153. “But children are more resilient than adults. They’re far better at making the most of what they have, and spend less time worrying about what they haven’t.”

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154. “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.”

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

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156. “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.”

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157. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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165. “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.”

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166. “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.”

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167. “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.”

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168. “The best lessons are often the ones we don’t realise we’re being taught.”

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169. “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.”

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

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171. “Silence cannot be misquoted.”

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172. “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.”

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173. “People are a bit like books for me in that way, and I tend to be genuinely turned on by what’s on the inside rather than just the flashy cover.”

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

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

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176. “It made me wonder how many firsts a person can have before life only offers them seconds.”

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

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178. “Don’t spend all of your ambition on other people’s dreams.”

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179. “You’re always a better husband when we have an audience.”

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180. “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.”

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181. “When you know you can’t make long-term plans, it’s easy to let yourself make short-term mistakes.”

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

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

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184. “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.”

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

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186. “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.”

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

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

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

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190. “They say that your life flashes before your eyes when you die, so you should make it a life worth watching.”

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191. “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.”

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192. “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.”

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

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194. “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.”

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

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196. “There are two kinds of women: those who spend a lifetime trying not to turn into their mothers, and those who literally seem to want nothing more. I often find both varieties get the complete opposite of what they hoped for – one set become carbon copies of the women they didn’t want to be, while the others never live up to their own expectations of who they think they should have become.”

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197. “Nana taught us that the devil is not a fictional man with a red cape and horns; he’s the voice inside our heads that tells us to do things we shouldn’t; he’s the eyes that pretend not to see, and the ears that pretend not to hear. He’s you, he’s me, he’s all of us.”

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198. “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.”

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199. “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.”

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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.”

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