Top 250 Alice Feeney Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “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.”

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

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203. “The world can seem less frightening when you don’t have to face it alone.”

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204. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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210. “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.”

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

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212. “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.”

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213. “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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214. “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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215. “I can’t think clearly when life gets too loud.”

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216. “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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217. “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.”

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

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219. “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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220. “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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221. “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.”

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222. “We are all made from stars, the result of explosions millions of years ago. You, me, everyone we meet, we’re all stardust and stories.”

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

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224. “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.”

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

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226. “There are times we all stand still while the ghosts of our pasts run by.”

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227. “Busy” has become a trigger word in our marriage. Adam wears his busyness like a badge. Like a Boy Scout. It is something he is proud of : a status symbol of his success. It makes him feel important.”

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228. “If you spend your present focusing on your past you will never change your future.”

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

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

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231. “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.”

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232. “While my father uses punctuality as kindness, my mother uses lateness to offend.”

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233. “She was the only one who ever really believed in me, and I don’t know how to exist without her.”

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234. “There’s no need to be afraid of the dead. It’s the living you have to watch out for.”

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

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236. “We all have to have something or someone to love, otherwise the love inside us has nowhere to go.”

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237. “Love always trumps hate when you fear you might lose someone for good.”

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

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239. “Families often paint their own portraits in a different light, using colors the rest of us can’t quite see.”

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

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241. “She is a walking frown.”

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242. “Kind lies are the cousins of white ones.”

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243. “Books saved me, and I ran away inside the stories I read as a child.”

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

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245. “She was born with the safety off.”

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246. “Don’t waste your life wishing to be like someone else, decide who you are and be you.”

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247. “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.”

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

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249. “The success of a relationship can’t be measured by longevity alone.”

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250. “I sometimes think our mother named us after flowers because that’s what she wished we were. Flowers are much easier to pick, and arrange, and cut down to size than daughters.”

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