Quotes About Adaptation

I like the breath of foreign air, the close-up glimpses of lives far removed from my own. I liked to hear the accents and work out where their owners came from, to study the clothes of people who have never seen a Next catalog or bought a five-pack of knickers at Marks and Spencer.

ALL MY LIFE I'VE ENDED UP LOOKING AFTER PEOPLE, FITTING MYSELF AROUND WHAT THEY NEED, WHAT THEY WANTED.

I know this - nobody gets everything. And we immigrants know this more than anyone. You always have one foot in two places. You can never be truly happy because, from the moment you leave, you are two selves, and wherever you are one half of you is always calling to the other.

Maybe he talks through one of those devices. Like that scientist bloke. The one on The Simpsons .

Te vas a sentir incómoda en tu nuevo mundo durante un tiempo. Siempre es extraño vernos fuera del lugar donde

I ate new foods, walked strange streets, spoke to people in a language that wasn't mine.

It was as if a light had gone on: the only way to avoid being left behind was to start moving.

Bilmiyorum... Sanki çörek yerine... donut olmu?sun gibi...

Marveling at the 180 degree swings of life in general.

It's not the same crushing grief you felt at first, the kind that swamps you and makes you want to cry in the wrong places and get irrationally angry with all the idiots who are still alive when the person you love is dead. It's just something you learn to accommodate. Like adapting around a hole. I don't know. It's like you become . . . a doughnut instead of a bun.

best way to get through life was not to dwell on things so she packed those events into a suitcase, and shoved it to the back of a mental cupboard,

If you cannot fix it," he says, "maybe you have to look at it differently.

Be thrown into a new life (or at least thrown with sush force against the life of someone who is like squashed his face against the window) forces you to rethink who you are. Or what causes impression for others

Oh, my God, my darling, how did you survive this man? "I guess it's like the frog in boiling water, right?" Nisha says. "No marriage starts off bad. I guess by the time you realize how weird it's gotten you're up to your neck.

Do you know what a quadriplegic is?" I faltered. "When…you're stuck in a wheelchair?" "I suppose that's one way of putting it. There are varying degrees, but in this case we are talking about complete loss of use of the legs, and very limited use of the hands and arms. Would that bother you?

carriage. "I know this—nobody gets everything. And we immigrants know this more than anyone. You always have one foot in two places. You can never be truly happy because, from the moment you leave, you are two selves, and wherever you are one half of you is always calling to the other. This is our price, Louisa. This is the cost of who we are.

Kad te netko katapultira u posve nov život ili te bar gurne toliko snažno u tu?i život da se osjetiš kao da ti je lice priljubljeno uz tu?i prozor - prisiljen si ponovo razmisliti o tome tko si. Ili kako te drugi doživljavaju.

But, like a creeping tide, the outside world insisted steadily on intruding.

I told myself there was no point in dwelling on something that was gone.

And we immigrants know this more than anyone. You always have one foot in two places. You can never be truly happy because, from the moment you leave, you are two selves, and wherever you are one half of you is always calling to the other.

las cosas cambian, crecen o se marchitan, pero que la vida continúa

White-water rafting and scuba diving were not part of his plan for convalescence.

if you cannot change your situation, then you have no choice. You can only change how you think about it.

She looked a bit like a different person. It was weird. Just a few weeks away from home could rub the familiarity right off someone.