137 Quotes by Alice Feeney

Don’t bother to make any new friends any more. I’ve learned it’s best to just hold on to what you’ve got.

Instinct tells me to close my eyes and I plunge myself back into the darkness, back to my world of being seen but not heard.

The stories we tell each other about our lives are like snow globes. We shake the facts of what happened in our minds, then watch and wait while the pieces settle into fiction. If we don't like the way the pieces fall, we just shake the story again, until it looks how we want it to.

I've always felt safe in bookshops. It's as though the stories inside them can rescue me from myself and the rest of the world. A literary sanctuary filled with shelves of paper-shaped parachutes, which will save you when you fall.

She says that everyone can think of three things and that being honest with yourself is more important than being honest with others.

Things have changed since we were children, perhaps not as much as we might have liked, but the world is a different place. Faster, louder, lonelier. Unlike the world around us, we haven't changed at all, not really. History is a mirror and we're all just older versions of ourselves; children disguised as adults.

We rarely deserve the lives we lead. We pay for them however we can, be it with money, guilt or regret.

The world keeps on spinning, repeating itself over and over until something changes, which it doesn't because we can't.

We are a species incapable of horrific acts, and incapable of learning from the lessons our own history tries to teach us.