137 Quotes by Alice Feeney

Sometimes even I don’t like to see the me that I become when nobody else is looking.

She was never a sociable woman. Her two best friends were wine and whiskey, and they were always there when she needed them. Nobody else knew about how much she drank. She hid her habit well, and I learned that the best way to keep a secret is never to tell. Like mother, like daughter.

Life is like a game of chess; you just have to play it backwards and work out all the moves you need to make in advance, to get where you need to be.

People are not mirrors-they don’t see you how you see yourself.

I think you reach an age – and it is different for everyone – where you finally realize that all the things you thought mattered, don’t.

I doubt he felt the same way, but feelings don’t have to be mutual to be real.

You should always fight, especially when you think you are going to lose. That’s when you should fight the hardest.

I remember looking up at that school, as though it were a prison I might never be allowed to leave. I wasn’t far wrong. There are some self-inflicted life sentences. We all carry prisons of regret inside our heads, unable to break free of the guilt and pain they cause us.

Mum says it is important to look your best, because even if people shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, they still do.