Aliya Whiteley Quotes

Source: Fearsome Creatures

“Your imagination can take you to the best and worst places. It is a ship on a sea of dreams and it's up to you to steer it.”

Life Writing Stories Imagination Dreams

Book:The Beauty

Source: The Beauty

“The mark of humanity is how it treats the world and those who share it with us...”

Inspirational Humanity Nature Kindness Human Nature Tollerance

Book:The Beauty

Source: The Beauty

“To say please, and mean it, is to believe that life itself can be persuaded in your favor.”

Need Desperation Begging Aliya Whiteley Peace Pipe

Book:Peace, Pipe

Source: Peace, Pipe

“Here comes another feeling I must push down deep.”

Emotions Denial Unwanted Aliya Whiteley Peace Pipe

Book:Peace, Pipe

Source: Peace, Pipe

“It is the very hypocrisy that lies at the heart of so many men; they want everything their own way, and when I point out the failings in their logic I am told that I am simply not intelligent enough to understand it. They speak their private language of power, and I am not afraid to point out that it is often gibberish.”

Feminism Wrapped Aliya Whitely

Book:Fearsome Creatures

Source: Fearsome Creatures

“Language is an expression of the body-any sort of body-as much as it is a product of higher thought.”

Language Communication Peace Pipe Aliya Whitely

Book:Peace, Pipe

Source: Peace, Pipe

“It's raining. The cold has seeped into everything. We all complain of it, but I think maybe we are really complaining about our fear. It is the same feeling-icy fingers around us, squeezing, as the silence stretches on from the other side.”

Fear Cold Aliya Whiteley The Beauty

Book:The Beauty

Source: The Beauty

“I have said something stupid, something gross and unforgiveable. Something human. Nobody can offend with a single word quite like humanity.”

Communication Offense Blunder Aliya Whiteley Peace Pipe

Book:Peace, Pipe

Source: Peace, Pipe

“I needed someone with me beyond the digital, in the interaction that only exists when people sit in the same space and look at each other, and breathe in what has been breathed out by another.”

Communication Real Life Aliya Whiteley Peace Pipe

Book:Peace, Pipe

Source: Peace, Pipe

“It has occurred to me that the word sorry doesn't even sound very apologetic. It's too sibilant, and quick to climb from honest sentiment to sarcasm, even annoyance. I really am truly, completely, undeniably sorry for my mistakes on Demeter, but the more I say it, and the more I pile up adverbs in front of it, the less sincere it sounds.”

Communication Words Meanings Aliya Whiteley Peace Pipe

Book:Peace, Pipe

Source: Peace, Pipe

“A human would be embarrassed by the need in my voice. There would be a reassurance, hardly meant, and then maybe a joke to lighten the mood. That's what a human would do.”

Communication Misanthropy Aliya Whiteley Peace Pipe

Book:Peace, Pipe

Source: Peace, Pipe

“And being a survivor is just the same as being dead with a longer sell-by-date on the top of your packet.”

Survivor Aliya Whiteley Day Of The Dog

Book:Fearsome Creatures

Source: Fearsome Creatures

“Does it matter where I came from if I'm not going anywhere?”

Existentialism Introspection Aliya Whiteley Fearsome Creatures

Book:Fearsome Creatures

Source: Fearsome Creatures

“I will use the memory of Pipe to remind myself that I have been damaged as much as I have damaged others, and this is not a special thing. It's just the way my world works. It's been easy to believe, in this room for three months, that I have been at the centre of amazing events. But I'm a tiny part of the intricacies and engineerings of Earth. And I'm not half as clever as I once thought I was. Just as Pipe might be one of so many, I am a drop in the ocean of humanity. We move, we surge, we dash and we flow, and we think that our furious beating upon the far shores of the universe means we are powerful. But we are only the crest of an uncontrollable surge in the tide. Those who rush up from behind to replace me will be just as guilty, and as innocent, as I am. We all have no real idea of where we go, and what we do.”

Peace Oneness Peace Pipe Aliya Whitely

Book:Peace, Pipe

Source: Peace, Pipe

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