Top 250 Alice Feeney Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “I never leave me alone with myself for too long; I can’t be trusted.”

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202. “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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203. “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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204. “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.”

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205. “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.”

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

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

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209. “I don’t have to see her face to know when she isn’t telling me the truth. You can feel it when someone you love is lying.”

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

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

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

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

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

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217. “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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218. “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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219. “Families often paint their own portraits in a different light, using colors the rest of us can’t quite see.”

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

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

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222. “She is a walking frown.”

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223. “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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224. “Kind lies are the cousins of white ones.”

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

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

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

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228. “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.”

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

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

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231. “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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232. “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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233. “Books have always made me feel safe, something to hide inside when the real world gets too dark.”

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

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

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

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238. “Childhood is a race to find out who you really are, before you become the person you are going to be. Not everybody wins.”

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239. “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.”

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240. “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.”

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241. “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.”

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

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243. “Choosing to forget can be a lot less painful than choosing to remember.”

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244. “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.”

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245. “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.”

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

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247. “I wonder if other people look forward to seeing their families but dread it at the same time the way I always seem to.”

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

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249. “I have almost nothing but almost everything I need.”

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250. “Caring about other people is more important than being curious about them.”

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