Top 250 Alice Feeney Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “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

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

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205. “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

206. “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

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

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209. “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

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

— Alice Feeney

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

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

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

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

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216. “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

217. “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

218. “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

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

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220. “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

221. “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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222. “Kind lies are the cousins of white ones.”

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

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

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225. “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

226. “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

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

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

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229. “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

230. “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

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

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

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

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

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237. “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

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

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239. “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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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250. “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.”

— Alice Feeney