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Rock Paper Scissors Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney
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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
“words don’t come with gift receipts and you can’t take them back.”
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
“Books can be mirrors for whoever holds them & people dont always like what they see”
Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors
“Silence cannot be misquoted.”
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
“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
“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
“The scariest haunted houses are always the ones in which you are the ghost”
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
“Time can change relationships like the sea reshapes the sand.”
Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors
“Tiny violins always sound loudest to those playing them.”
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
“Nostalgia is a dangerous drug, but I enjoy the sensation of happier memories flooding my mind.”
Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors
“We are our parents echoes and sometimes they don't like what they hear”
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
“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
“I doubt he felt the same way, but feelings don’t have to be mutual to be real.”
Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors
“There are residents in our lives, the ones who stay for years, and then there are the tourists just passing through. Sometimes it can be hard to tell the difference. We can’t, and don’t, and shouldn’t try to hold on to everyone that we meet, and I’ve met a lot of tourists in my life, people I should have kept at a safe distance. If you don’t let anyone get too close, they can’t hurt you.”
Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors
“She wonders about that a lot: why people only learn to live in the moment when the moment has passed.”
Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors
“The woman wore her bitterness like a badge; the kind of person who writes one-star book reviews.”
Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors
“atelophobia noun the fear of not doing something right or the fear of not being good enough. An extreme anxiety of failure to achieve perfection.”
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
“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
“Four-legged creatures tend to make better companions than those with two, and dogs don’t hold grudges or know how to hate.”
Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors
“Patience is the answer to so many of life’s questions.”
Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors
“but dreams can only come true if we dare to dream them in the first place.”
Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors

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