Top 300 Alice Feeney Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “Sometimes bad things happen to good people, so good people have to do bad things.”

— Alice Feeney

252. “We’re all dying from the day we are born, it is only a matter of time.”

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

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

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256. “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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257. “People who throw stones don’t seem to understand that they sometimes bounce back.”

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258. “Doing something wrong is sometimes the right thing to do. Everyone knows that, even if they pretend not to.”

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259. “Children only know how to love until the world – or their mothers – teach them how to hate.”

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260. “I don’t remember when the years started to speed up, but they did. Seasons tumbling into each other, days disappearing into weeks, weeks into months. I can’t seem to slow life down but I can’t keep up with it either.”

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

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262. “There is no better place to hide than inside your own dreams.”

— Alice Feeney

263. “I think sometimes things have to get really dark for us to see what we have.”

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264. “People love a good tragedy so long as it is not their own.”

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265. “Nana always said that books made better friends than people anyway.”

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266. “Grief is like a fingerprint, different every time.”

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267. “Sometimes we want things just because other people have them.”

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

— Alice Feeney

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

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270. “Sometimes you have to fall down to remember how to pick yourself up.”

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271. “Hope can be just as devastating as despair.”

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272. “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.”

— Alice Feeney

273. “Sometimes bad people are just sad people in disguise.”

— Alice Feeney

274. “People spend too long adjusting to the light instead of the dark, it’s why they are so unprepared when bad things happen to them.”

— Alice Feeney

275. “Why do some men always think they are right, despite having so much previous experience of being wrong?”

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276. “It’s strange to think that this spectacular night sky is always above us, wherever we are. We’re all just too busy looking down to remember to look up.”

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

278. “I care more about liking myself than being liked by others.”

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279. “Walking in so many shadows must make it hard to see your own path.”

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280. “I think when you feel abandoned by your own parents, it’s impossible not to spend the rest of your life suspecting people of plotting to leave you.”

— Alice Feeney

281. “I think there are two kinds of people in the world: the ones who wish never to be forgotten, and the others who hope not to be noticed in the first place.”

— Alice Feeney

282. “I waste so much time replaying old conversations, wondering if things might be different now if I had said something different then. But it’s all a waste of time. Wishing you could change the script of your life when the scene is over is pointless.”

— Alice Feeney

283. “Life in the big city tends to be a lot smaller than the dreams people have of it. People forget that nightmares are dreams too.”

— Alice Feeney

284. “When life bends itself into a question mark you start looking for answers, and when you can’t find the right ones, you go looking for the wrong ones instead. That’s all there is to it.”

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285. “When words are left unsaid for too long their meaning can expire.”

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286. “Some people drink to drown their sorrows; others drink so they can swim in them.”

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

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

— Alice Feeney

289. “People always have choices, they just pretend not to in order to feel better about making bad ones.”

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290. “One of the many things I love about my dog is that he always agrees with me.”

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291. “The world is full of people who are good at being bad, and people who are bad at being good.”

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

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293. “Sadly it is human nature to squander love and stockpile hate.”

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294. “Life seems better at punishing bad deeds than it is at rewarding good ones.”

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295. “I have forgotten how it feels not to feel lonely.”

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

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

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299. “Writing is like being beaten to death by your own dream.”

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

— Alice Feeney