Quotes About Adaptation

Kita tak bisa kembali. Tak bisa memperbaiki apa yang telah kita rusak. Tapi, kita bisa maju ke depan.

what's different

The daily life of kids was a strange one, she thought. You got hauled to various locations, dumped there, hauled out again at the end of the day. During the dump time, you formed your own little societies that might have little or nothing to do with your pecking order in your home life. So weren't you constantly adjusting, readjusting, dealing with new rules, new authorities, more power, less? No wonder kids were so weird.

People sue the clouds if it rains on their picnic.

It took time, at least in her experience, to grow accustomed to carrying love.

As for your Spanish, don't worry, persist. One day it will cease to feel like a language, it will become the way things are.

You will believe me when I say the life we lead grows less and less distinct from the life we led of Cruso's island. Sometimes I wake up not knowing where I am. The world is full of islands, said Cruso once. His words ring truer every day.

You are like a stick insect, Michaels, whose sole defence against a universe of predators is its bizarre shape. You are like a stick insect that has landed, God knows how, in the middle of a great wide flat bare concrete plain. You raise your slow fragile stick-legs one at a time, you inch about looking for something to merge with, and there is nothing. Why did you ever leave the bushes, Michaels?

An intellectual apparatus marked by a conscious knowledge of its insufficiency is an evolutionary aberration.

Whoa. Fangs. She had fangs. She leaned in, prodded them a little. Eating with those puppies was going to take some getting used to, she thought. On impulse, she brought up her hands, turned her fingers into claws. Hissed. Cool.

Life's meant to be lived blind—that's how you don't take shit for granted.

Life has gotten in the way of our life.

Lassiter hit pause and clamped a hard hand on his shoulder.Sit the fuck back. Watch and learn. What? How much I hate rom-coms? How 'bout we just stipulate that and let me go. You're going to need this. For my second career as a pussy?

V had a passing thought that she used the word anyway like an eraser on a crowded chalkboard. She said it whenever she needed to clear off the things she'd just shared to make room for more.

Fear of change was a weakness

People going in the wrong direction will get like that. Round pegs just don't fit in square holes.

In his old life, the answer would have been easy: He'd have just put a gun to Vin's head and dragged the fucker to the altar. Now? He needed to be a little more civilized.

Sometimes the changes in life came at you so fast, and with such fury, there was no way to keep up with reality. It took time for things to sink in, the new equilibrium establishing itself only after some period of your brain sloshing back and forth against the walls of your head. He was still in the slosh zone.

Dont' try to own problems or faults that aren't yours. It's not a good longterm strategy.

Sometimes the changes in life came at you so fast, and with such fury, there was no way to keep up with reality.

I learned long ago never to predict. All you can do is influence what you can and endure the rest.

Sometimes, pretending to be normal was the very best antidote to weirdness. Fake-it-until-you-make-it was more than psychobabble bullshit.

That which cannot go on will not.

The poor thing had cowered away from the sides of the pan, blackened on top, and developed drying cracks. It was inedible, better suited to the construction supply trade than to a dinner plate. A few dozen more of these and some mortar and she'd have that wall she wanted around her terrace.