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

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

“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

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

“Silence cannot be misquoted.”
― 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

“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

“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

“All people are addicts, and all addicts desire the same thing: an escape from reality. My job just happens to be my favorite drug.”
― Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors

“But then, isn't love like breathing? Isn't it instinct? Something we're born knowing how to do? Or is love like speaking French? If nobody teaches you, you'll never be fluent, and if you don't practice you forget how...”
― Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors

“Sometimes I think its the fear of falling down that makes people trip up. We're not born afraid. When we're young, we dont hesitate to run, or climb or jump & we dont worry about getting hurt or fret about failure. Rejection & real life teach us to fear - but if you want something badly enough - you have to take the leap.”
― Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors

“But I have realized recently that words are just words, a series of letters, arranged in a certain order, most likely in the language we were assigned at birth. People are careless with their words nowadays. They throw them away in a text or a tweet, they write them, pretend to read them, twist them, misquote them, lie with, without, and about them. They steal them, then they give them away. Worst of all, they forget them. Words are only a value if we remember how to feel what they mean.”
― Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors

“We are our parents echoes and sometimes they don't like what they hear”
― Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors

“Believing in someone is one of the greatest gifts you can give them, it’s free and the results can be priceless.”
― Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors

“Dreams are like dresses in a shop window; they look pretty, but sometimes don’t fit when you try them on. Some are too small, others are too big. Luckily, my mother taught me how to sew, and dreams can be adjusted to fit, just like dresses.”
― Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors

“I think when we finally get what we think we want, it loses its value. It's the secret nobody ever shares, because if they did, we would all stop trying.”
― Alice Feeney, His & Hers

“Tell a person they're wrong, and they'll cover their ears. Tell a person they're right, and they'll listen to you all day long.”
― Alice Feeney, His & Hers

“Youth fools us into thinking there are infinite paths to choose from in life; maturity tricks us into thinking there is only one.”
― Alice Feeney, His & Hers

“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.”
― Alice Feeney, His & Hers

“People rarely see themselves the way others do; we all carry broken mirrors.”
― Alice Feeney, His & Hers

“Memories are shapeshifters. Some bend, some twist, and some shrivel and die over time. But our worst ones never leave us.”
― Alice Feeney, His & Hers

“Sometimes I get lost in my own thoughts and fears. Trapped within a world of worry which, deep down, I know only exists inside my head. Anxiety often screams louder than logic, and when you spend too long imagining the worst you can make it come true.”
― Alice Feeney, His & Hers

“There are two kinds of women: those who spend a lifetime trying not to turn into their mothers, and those who literally seem to want nothing more. I often find both varieties get the complete opposite of what they hoped for – one set become carbon copies of the women they didn’t want to be, while the others never live up to their own expectations of who they think they should have become”
― Alice Feeney, His & Hers

“Some people build invisible walls around themselves in the name of self-preservation. Hers were always tall, solid, and impenetrable.”
― Alice Feeney, His & Hers

“I’ve always loved listening to the way different people speak, it can tell you so much about them. I don’t just mean accents, I mean everything: the tone, the volume, the speed, as well as the language. The words they choose to use, and how and when and why they say them. The silences between the sentences, which can be just as loud. A person’s voice is like a wave – some just wash right over you, while others have the power to knock you down and drag you into an ocean of self-doubt. The sound of her speaking makes me feel like I’m drowning.”
― Alice Feeney, His & Hers

“Choosing to forget can be a lot less painful than choosing to remember.”
― Alice Feeney, His & Hers

“Sometimes I find the only way to ease the worst forms of pain is to damage myself in a different way. Distract my attention from the things that can and will break me. A little hurt to help me heal.”
― Alice Feeney, His & Hers