Quotes About Adaptation

Sometimes you have to be the monster to survive

Lev looks at Risa, almost afraid to ask the obvious question. Finally he says, 'Uh...why do we have a baby?' 'Ask him ,' says Risa. Stone-faced, Conner looks out of the window. 'They're looking for two boys and a girl. Having a baby will throw them off.' 'Great,' snaps Risa. 'Maybe we should all pick up a baby along the way.

A family is a collection of strangers trapped in a web of DNA and forced to cope.

Even though the whole world had slid of its axis. Breakfast was breakfast. How dare it be?

We are not the same beings we once were. So then, if we are no longer human, what are we?

She supposed it must always be this way; once the unthinkable settles into being the norm you become numb to it. She never wanted to be that numb.

Nothing stays wondrous forever. It's human nature to grow accustomed to that which becomes normal, even if it's a new shade of normal.

But life doesn't end," the smiling proponents of unwinding all insist. "It just transforms. We like to call it 'living in a divided state.'

Elasticity is a fundamental principle of perception

Life is like a bad haircut. At first it looks awful, then you kind of get used to it, and before you know it, it grows out and you gotta get another haircut that maybe won't be so bad... So life goes on, good haircut, bad haircut, until finally you go bald, and it don't matter no more.

Things pass. Even big things. And when they're far behind us, they don't look as big anymore.

when something drastic happens, there's a lag time. It's not quite denial, and not quite shock, but more like a mental free fall.

Yes, yes, but you have to remember people take from a situation the thing that they need.

We do, you know. Find ourselves. Although it's a little harder each time. Days pass. Weeks. Then we squeeze ourselves back into the skin of who we were before all this. We put the pieces back together and get on with things.

Of course, the bad scythes weren't all in the past. But instead of "bad" they were now called "innovative" and "forward-thinking.

Does a sick society get so used to its illness that it can't remember being well?

Count your blessings," the captain says. "And if you count less than ten, cut off the remaining fingers.

Scythe Curie seemed a mix of many emotions, but she folded them all away, like clothes that no longer fit, and closed the drawer.

I should like to be on a scythe committee one day," Rowan said. Citra looked at him oddly. "Why are you talking like Faraday?" Rowan shrugged. "When in Rome…

No son los mejores sitios del mundo, ¿verdad? Tienes que luchar para que sepan que estás ahí; si no, vives una vida de mera adecuación, que es lo peor que hay.

Good in Crisis; Sucks at Normal.

If the bar can't be lowered," Goddard said slowly, "then the floor must be raised.

Lorsqu'un événement grave se produit, il y a comme un temps de réaction. Ce n'est ni du déni ni de la surprise, plutôt une sorte de chute libre mentale. On s'imprègne de la nouvelle... et lorsqu'on se décide enfin à bouger, la fenêtre d'action s'est déjà refermée. — Alyssa

One can never truly master the art of driving, because no journey is ever exactly the same.