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I Know Who You Are I Know Who You Are by Alice Feeney
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“Sometimes it only takes one person to believe in you to change your life forever. Sometimes it only takes one person not believing in you to destroy it.”
Alice Feeney, I Know Who You Are
“Ignorance isn’t bliss; it’s fear postponed to a later date.”
Alice Feeney, I Know Who You Are
“Sometimes self-preservation means staying away from the people who pretend to care about you.”
Alice Feeney, I Know Who You Are
“You should always fight, especially when you think you are going to lose. That’s when you should fight the hardest.”
Alice Feeney, I Know Who You Are
“The lies we tell ourselves are always the most dangerous.”
Alice Feeney, I Know Who You Are
“I'm starting to think that life is little more than a series of doors; every day we have to choose which ones to open, which to walk through, and which to close behind us, leaving them forever locked.”
Alice Feeney, I Know Who You Are
“I think it can be dangerous to spend too long watching the lives of others; you might run out of time to live your own. Technology is devolving the human race. Eating up our emotional intelligence, spitting out any remnants of privacy it can’t quite swallow. The world will keep on spinning and the stars will always shine, regardless of whether anyone is looking.”
Alice Feeney, I Know Who You Are
“Sometimes you have to fall hard enough for it to hurt to know when to pick yourself up. You can't start to put yourself back together if you don't even know that you're broken.”
Alice Feeney, I Know Who You Are
“You can’t allow the past to steal your present, but if you siphon off just the right amount, it can help fuel your future.”
Alice Feeney, I Know Who You Are
“Books can be mirrors, too, offering a reflection of our worst selves for appraisal; lessons tucked between the pages, just waiting to be learned.”
Alice Feeney, I Know Who You Are
“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.”
Alice Feeney, I Know Who You Are
“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.”
Alice Feeney, I Know Who You Are
“...Lies don’t come with gift receipts, you can’t take them back.”
Alice Feeney, I Know Who You Are
“The world will keep on spinning and the stars will always shine, regardless of whether anyone is looking”
Alice Feeney, I Know Who You Are
“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.”
Alice Feeney, I Know Who You Are
“The version of myself I wear in public is far more attractive than the real me. It’s been carefully tailored, a cut above my standard self; she’s someone nobody should see.”
Alice Feeney, I Know Who You Are
“We are all conditioned and fine-tuned to our own unique brand of normal; we wear it like a fingerprint. We’re taught to fit in with others and learn what is expected of us from the moment we are born. Everything we ever do is an act.”
Alice Feeney, I Know Who You Are
“I buy a book. Surrounded by so many, it would seem rude not to. It's a story written in 1958. I've read it before, but it brings a curious sense of comfort to slip it inside my bag. As I leave the shop, and the world of fiction behind, it feels as if I'm taking a little of the fantasy with me. A talisman made of paper and words to help ward off reality.”
Alice Feeney, I Know Who You Are
“We’ve all got so busy staring down at our screens that we’ve forgotten to look up at the stars.”
Alice Feeney, I Know Who You Are
“Denial is most the destructive form of self-harm.”
Alice Feeney, I Know Who You Are
“Ever since I was a child, I have preferred to inhabit the fictional lives of others, hiding in stories that have happier endings than my own; we are what we read.”
Alice Feeney, I Know Who You Are
“Books can be mirrors, too, offering a reflection of our worst selves for appraisal; lessons tucked between pages, just waiting to be learned.”
Alice Feeney, I Know Who You Are
“We exchange the currency of our dreams for a reality funded by acceptance as we get older.”
Alice Feeney, I Know Who You Are
“Sometimes it only takes one person to believe in you to change your life forever. Sometimes it only takes one person not believing in you to destroy it. Humans are a highly sensitive species.”
Alice Feeney, I Know Who You Are
“We exchange the currency of our dreams for a reality funded by acceptance as we get older”
Alice Feeney, I Know Who You Are
“I’ve read it before, but it brings a curious sense of comfort to slip it inside my bag. As I leave the shop, and the world of fiction, behind, it feels as if I’m taking a little bit of fantasy with me. A talisman made of paper and words to help ward off reality.”
Alice Feeney, I Know Who You Are
“that. ‘Nonsense! She’s bright as a button! Always got her”
Alice Feeney, I Know Who You Are
“The most believable lies always contain fragments of truth.”
Alice Feeney, I Know Who You Are
“why is it that so many horrible human beings succeed in life?”
Alice Feeney, I Know Who You Are
“you should never forget who you are and where you came from.”
Alice Feeney, I Know Who You Are

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