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“Home isn’t always where the heart is; sometimes home is where the hurt lives.”
Alice Feeney, My Husband's Wife
“Sometimes you order ice cream and instead life serves you a triple-decker shit sandwich with a side order of completely fucked.”
Alice Feeney, My Husband's Wife
“Who I used to be is always doing battle with who I want to be.”
Alice Feeney, My Husband's Wife
“She didn't even look at me, just carried on running up that hill, like Kate bleedin' Bush.”
Alice Feeney, My Husband's Wife
“Your biggest enemy is always the person you see in the mirror.”
Alice Feeney, My Husband's Wife
“People are grief vampires. They just want to suck on your sorrow, feed on your fear, and feast on your failures. It makes them feel better about themselves. What I”
Alice Feeney, My Husband's Wife
“Everyone lies and everyone dies. Those are the only two things you can be sure of in this uncertain world. Twilight is my happy place. That thin line of time that separates night from day, and day from night. Twilight. Sunset. Nightfall. When we give things different names, it's easier to pretend they're not the same. Like love and heartbreak. No joy lasts forever. No sorrow lasts forever, and time is too precious to waste.”
Alice Feeney, My Husband's Wife
“I have always been happiest when hiding inside a story.”
Alice Feeney, My Husband's Wife
“Memories and feelings coexist in a close relationship. They’ll lie to you if it means they can stay together.”
Alice Feeney, My Husband's Wife
“There is another framed print behind the bar that says STRANGERS ARE FRIENDS YOU HAVE NOT YET MET. What a crock of shit that is. Friends are strangers in waiting if you ask me.”
Alice Feeney, My Husband's Wife
“Life is filled with sliding doors and dead ends,”
Alice Feeney, My Husband's Wife
“Nobody wants to be themselves anymore, everybody wants to be somebody else. Including me.”
Alice Feeney, My Husband's Wife
“Some people love a good party; personally, I prefer a good book.”
Alice Feeney, My Husband's Wife
“Jealousy gives birth to monsters”
Alice Feeney, My Husband's Wife
“Feels welcoming. Like a real home. There’s something rather lovely about the organized chaos of family life.”
Alice Feeney, My Husband's Wife
“Something ugly can sometimes be turned into something beautiful.”
Alice Feeney, My Husband's Wife
“Wives should be able to trust their husbands.”
Alice Feeney, My Husband's Wife
“Nobody wants to be themselves anymore”
Alice Feeney, My Husband's Wife
“I’m stuck somewhere between hate and forgiveness and I don’t pretend to understand it.”
Alice Feeney, My Husband's Wife
“Caught in the no-man’s-land between searching for the meaning of life and accepting that life has no meaning.”
Alice Feeney, My Husband's Wife
“I think that promises are made to be kept, not broken, and I wish more people would try to remember that. Maybe if people didn’t go around breaking their promises there would be fewer broken people in the world.”
Alice Feeney, My Husband's Wife
“I suppose we’re all actors on the stage of our own lives, some of us are just better at it than others.”
Alice Feeney, My Husband's Wife
“Why must men behave like men?”
Alice Feeney, My Husband's Wife
“These days I think part of a parent’s job is to figure out how to hurt you so that you can learn how to heal yourself.”
Alice Feeney, My Husband's Wife
“I’ve reached an age where I seem to find most people deeply irritating”
Alice Feeney, My Husband's Wife
“Eventually nature always takes back what she loans us. And what we steal. It’s only ever a matter of time.”
Alice Feeney, My Husband's Wife
“30th October Someone is setting me up and I plan to find out who. Visiting Gabriella will help prove who I am. She survived the accident but was never the same again”
Alice Feeney, My Husband's Wife
“Accepting that things change and learning to navigate wrong turns is the secret to a happy life.”
Alice Feeney, My Husband's Wife
“For the next hour I am not just the wife”
Alice Feeney, My Husband's Wife
“Some people are a sky full of stars”
Alice Feeney, My Husband's Wife

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