Alice Feeney > Quotes

“Nana always said that books made better friends than people anyway. Books will take you anywhere if you let them, she used to say, and I think she was right.”
― Alice Feeney, Sometimes I Lie

“We are all made of flesh and stars, but we all become dust in the end. Best to shine while you can.”
― Alice Feeney, Sometimes I Lie

“Some people appear happy on the outside and you only know they’re broken inside if you listen as well as look.”
― Alice Feeney, Sometimes I Lie

“The reason why a person lies is almost always more interesting than the lie itself”
― Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors

“Enjoy the stories of other people's lives, but don't forget to live your own.”
― Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors

“Sometimes I think it's best to say nothing at all, silence cannot be misquoted.”
― Alice Feeney, Sometimes I Lie

“We are all just ghosts of the people we hoped that we were and counterfeit replicas of the people we wanted to be.”
― Alice Feeney, Sometimes I Lie

“If every story had a happy ending, then we’d have no reason to start again. Life is all about choices, and learning how to put ourselves back together when we fall apart. Which we all do. Even the people who pretend they don’t.”
― Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors

“words don’t come with gift receipts and you can’t take them back.”
― Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors

“The only good thing about losing everything, is the freedom that comes from having nothing left to lose.”
― Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors

“If you can’t find your way back to Happy, Navigate to the place you know as Less Sad.”
― Alice Feeney, Daisy Darker

“People are not mirrors-they don't see you how you see yourself.”
― Alice Feeney, Sometimes I Lie

“Silence cannot be misquoted.”
― Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors

“The best lessons are often the ones we don’t realise we’re being taught”
― Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors

“Books can be mirrors for whoever holds them & people dont always like what they see”
― Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors

“Everyone you meet is inevitably flawed... I don't avoid broken people because I think I'm better than them. I just don't like looking at my own reflection.”
― Alice Feeney, Sometimes I Lie

“Sometimes I think I am the unreliable narrator of my own life. Sometimes I think we all are.”
― Alice Feeney, His & Hers

“Wives think their husbands will change but they don’t.
Husbands think their wives won’t change but they do.”
― Alice Feeney, Beautiful Ugly

“I've hidden memories in boxes inside my head before. Sometimes it's the only way to deal with things.”
― Alice Feeney, Sometimes I Lie

“I keep my thoughts to myself because silence cannot be misquoted.”
― Alice feeney, Beautiful Ugly

“...but nightmares are dreams too.”
― Alice Feeney, Sometimes I Lie

“But if there’s one thing I have learned from life as well as fiction, it’s that nobody is ever just a hero or just a villain. We all have it in us to be both.”
― Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors

“I wish people were more like books. If you realise halfway through a novel that you aren’t enjoying it anymore, you can just stop and find something new to read. Same with films and TV dramas. There is no judgement, no guilt, nobody even needs to know unless you choose to tell them. But with people, you tend to have to see it through to the end, and sadly not everyone gets to live happily ever after.”
― Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors

“People think that good and bad are opposites but they're wrong, they're just mirror images of one another in broken glass.”
― Alice Feeney, Sometimes I Lie

“Life is like a game where pawns can become queens, but not everyone knows how to play. Some people stay pawns their whole lives because they never learned to make the right moves.”
― Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors

“There’s no need to be afraid of the dead. It’s the living you have to watch out for.”
― Alice Feeney, Daisy Darker

“But if I do know more than most, it's because I read. Books will teach you anything you want to know, and they tend to be more honest than people.”
― Alice Feeney, Daisy Darker

“The scariest haunted houses are always the ones in which you are the ghost”
― Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors

“The only nobodies in this world are the people who pretend to be somebody; the people who think they are better than other people because of the way they choose to look, or speak, or vote, or pray, or love.”
― Alice Feeney, Daisy Darker

“Where does the love go when someone dies? Their last breath disappears into the atmosphere, their body gets buried in the ground, but where does the love go? If love is real, it must go somewhere.”
― Alice Feeney, Daisy Darker