Top 300 Alice Feeney Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “When you know you can’t make long-term plans, it’s easy to let yourself make short-term mistakes.”

— Alice Feeney

252. “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

253. “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

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

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

256. “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

257. “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

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

— Alice Feeney

259. “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

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

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

262. “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

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

— Alice Feeney

264. “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

265. “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

266. “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.”

— Alice Feeney

267. “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

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

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

280. “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.”

— Alice Feeney

281. “Sometimes bad things happen to good people, so good people have to do bad things.”

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

284. “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

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

— Alice Feeney

286. “She has always thought of herself as a good bad girl. Someone who made the best of the bad life she was born into, and tried to do something good with it.”

— Alice Feeney

287. “Maybe everyone reaches an age when they can’t help thinking that they should have done more, lived more, been more than who they are. I’m not who I wanted to be.”

— Alice Feeney

288. “I’m trapped inside the body of someone who lived a life I don’t remember.”

— Alice Feeney

289. “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

290. “As a result, the house is too quiet and her own thoughts and fears are too loud.”

— Alice Feeney

291. “She is a walking frown.”

— Alice Feeney

292. “Maybe all villains are the heroes of their own stories.”

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

294. “My books have always been a place to hide myself inside myself when the real world gets too loud.”

— Alice Feeney

295. “Guilt is such a sticky emotion; you can’t wash the damn thing off.”

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

297. “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.”

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney