Peace Pipe Quotes

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

“Language is an expression of the body-any sort of body-as much as it is a product of higher thought.”
― Aliya Whiteley, Peace, Pipe

“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

“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.”
― Aliya Whiteley, Peace, Pipe