137 Quotes by Alice Feeney

Not all broken moral compasses are beyond repair. Some can start to work again with an ethical shake from another person. We all travel alone inside our own heads, but it is possible to navigate someone’s intentions north of bad and south of wrong. People can change, they just tend to choose not to.

The dead are not so very far away when you really need them; they’re just on the other side of an invisible wall.

Some people are ghosts before they are dead.

Parents spend their youth trying to understand their children; children spend their adulthood trying to understand their parents.

I bury the thoughts like I always do. Lock them in a secure secret box inside my head, push them to the darkest corner right at the back, and hope they won’t escape again any time soon.

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.

Youth fools us into thinking there are infinite paths to choose from in life; maturity tricks us into thinking there is only one.

It’s the kind of love that makes me feel sad and empty, a love based on habit and dependence; it isn’t real.

The woman wore her bitterness like a badge; the kind of person who writes one-star book reviews.