Top 300 Alice Feeney Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “Sometimes it is best to let people think you will follow them, until you are certain that you won’t be lost on your own.”

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

203. “It’s amazing how a wound so small can refuse to heal and inflict so much discomfort.”

— Alice Feeney

204. “Some people say that marriage is like wine and gets better with age, but I guess it all depends on the grapes.”

— Alice Feeney

205. “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

206. “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

207. “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

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

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

211. “Robin read recently that bats give birth to their babies while hanging upside down. Then they have to catch their children before they fall too far, but that part is the same for all parents.”

— Alice Feeney

212. “I thought you might need this,′ I say, disappointed with the simplicity of words given how long it took me to find them.”

— Alice Feeney

213. “He is an intellectually promiscuous man who gorges on the thoughts of others, then shares them, dressed up as his own. Secondhand ideas sold as new. He seasons his sentences with the odd long word because he doesn’t want people to hear his lack of knowledge or education. The piano was his first and only true love, and music is the only subject he has ever really studied.”

— Alice Feeney

214. “A good book can be a light in the darkness. A good book can cure loneliness, change minds, or even change the world. A good book is nothing less than magic.”

— Alice Feeney

215. “Every family is a fortress that few outsiders get to see inside. Especially ours. Sometimes people are invited in for a period of time, but they only ever get the public tour; they never really see behind the scenes. A backstage pass is a myth when it comes to human relationships; we can never really know another person because we rarely know ourselves.”

— Alice Feeney

216. “Grief is a patient thief and steals far more than people who have never known it realize.”

— Alice Feeney

217. “Ever since I was a child, I have preferred to inhabit the fictional lives of others, hiding in stories that have happier endings than my own; we are what we read.”

— Alice Feeney

218. “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

219. “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

220. “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

221. “Complaining is my sister’s not-so-secret superpower. She is a walking frown. The soundtrack of her life is little more than a series of moans stitched together into a symphony of negativity, which I find exhausting to listen to.”

— Alice Feeney

222. “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

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

— Alice Feeney

224. “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.”

— Alice Feeney

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

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226. “I wonder if we are all just echoes of the people we might have been if life had unfolded differently. The by-products of a crease in time.”

— Alice Feeney

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

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228. “That’s the problem with following in someone else’s footsteps; if you leave a bigger mark than they did they tend to get upset.”

— Alice Feeney

229. “Nancy was very good at growing most things except for children. We never grew fast enough, or tall enough, or pretty enough, in her opinion. So she planted seeds of fear as well as doubt all around this house and throughout our childhoods, little saplings rising up through the floorboards, creeping in through the cracks, to remind us what a disappointing crop we were.”

— Alice Feeney

230. “You can see fear on the surface of some people, while others learn to hide their worries inside themselves, out of sight but not out of mind.”

— Alice Feeney

231. “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.”

— Alice Feeney

232. “Sometimes it feels like I am lying at the bottom of a murky pond, the weight of the dirty liquid pushing down on me, filling me up with secrets and filth. There are moments when I think it would be a relief to drown, for it all to be over. Nobody can see me down here, but then I was always rather invisible. The new world around me turns in slow motion just out of reach, while I remain perfectly still, down in the darkness.”

— Alice Feeney

233. “We live in a world filled with hate and hurt, these are dark times, but there is still love and light if you look for it.”

— Alice Feeney

234. “I am free of his judgement now, and have realised the only person who forced me to live in his shadow was me. I could have stepped out any time I wanted if I hadn’t been so afraid.”

— Alice Feeney

235. “Life is all about choices, and learning how to put ourselves back together when we fall apart.”

— Alice Feeney

236. “Fear can make something beautiful appear ugly.”

— Alice Feeney

237. “I think most murder mysteries are overrated,” Nana says. “There are much cleverer ways to end a person than killing them.”

— Alice Feeney

238. “The only thing I don’t like about being alone is the amount of time it forces me to spend with myself.”

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

240. “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.”

— Alice Feeney

241. “Few people are genuinely capable of forgiveness, and nobody ever really forgets.”

— Alice Feeney

242. “Mors janua vitae? It’s Latin for ’death is the gate of life.”

— Alice Feeney

243. “I picture myself confined within my clinical cell, time slowly dripping down the four walls, forming puddles of dirty sludge that will slowly come up to drown me. Until then, I am existing in an infinite space where delusion is married to reality.”

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

245. “Two wrongs don’t make a right, but they can make the world seem more even. Less off balance.”

— Alice Feeney

246. “There are much cleverer ways to end a person than killing them.”

— Alice Feeney

247. “Sometimes we believe what we want to about the people we like the most.”

— Alice Feeney

248. “The scariest haunted houses are always the ones in which you are the ghost.”

— Alice Feeney

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

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250. “I was taught to be polite – you cant cross a bridge if you burn it.”

— Alice Feeney