Aliya Whiteley Quotes

“Here comes another feeling I must push down deep.”
― Aliya Whiteley, 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.”
― Aliya Whiteley, The Beauty

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

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

“Every little girl should have a dog, I think. You'll never find a better friend.”
― Aliya Whiteley, Fearsome Creatures

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

“Does it matter where I came from if I'm not going anywhere?”
― Aliya Whiteley, Fearsome Creatures