Top 300 Alice Feeney Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “Walking in so many shadows must make it hard to see your own path.”

— Alice Feeney

252. “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

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

— Alice Feeney

254. “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

255. “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

256. “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

257. “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

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

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

270. “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

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

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

275. “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

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

— Alice Feeney

277. “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

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

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

280. “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

281. “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

282. “She is a walking frown.”

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

291. “Sometimes it feels like I am lying at the bottom of a murky pond, the weight of the dirty liquid pushing down on me, filling me up with secrets and filth. There are moments when I think it would be a relief to drown, for it all to be over. Nobody can see me down here, but then I was always rather invisible. The new world around me turns in slow motion just out of reach, while I remain perfectly still, down in the darkness.”

— Alice Feeney

292. “We live in a world filled with hate and hurt, these are dark times, but there is still love and light if you look for it.”

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

294. “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

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

— Alice Feeney

296. “Fear can make something beautiful appear ugly.”

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney

299. “Every family is a fortress that few outsiders get to see inside. Especially ours. Sometimes people are invited in for a period of time, but they only ever get the public tour; they never really see behind the scenes. A backstage pass is a myth when it comes to human relationships; we can never really know another person because we rarely know ourselves.”

— Alice Feeney

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

— Alice Feeney