Quotes About Adaptation

For me, that was the hardest thing about living in America, being so far away, it was like being orphaned.

Schizophrenic behaviour is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.

If this were a book or movie, she thought, she'd be able to read the stars and get her bearings. Characters always had just the right random skill set to master the situation at hand. Like, Thank god for that summer on an uncle's smuggling boat and the handsome deckhand who taught me celestial navigation. Ha.

This is Weep. You can't expect things to make sense here." Thyon didn't agree. "I expect they make perfect sense," he said. "Just under a different set of rules." It was a matter of learning the rules, like learning a new language.

It wasn't even an alternate version of his life. He hadn't gone back in time and done everything differently to get to this place. It turned out that sometimes it's enough to start doing things differently now.

He listened like a cactus drinks the rain.

She'd have to get used to him all over again, taking small sips of his beauty as if it was too hot a drink to swallow all at once.

Qué pasa? ¿Por qué te ríes? - Porque la vida es una bastarda. - Bien, entonces supongo que encajamos perfectamente en ella.

So what,' said Zuzana. 'They had to be pretty stupid butterflies to fall for him anyway. You'll grow new ones with more sense. New wise butterflies.

Las cosas cambian. Pueden cambiarlas quienes tienen voluntad de hacerlo.

She was all dark-eyed intensity. Something was lost in her. Karou saw it and mourned. War does that, nothing for it. Reality lays siege. Your framed portrait of life is smashed, and a new one thrust upon you. Its ugly, and you don't even want to look at it , let alone hang it on the wall, but you have no choice.

War is all we've been taught, but there are other ways to live. We can find them, Akiva. We can invent them. This is the beginning, here.

What?" demanded Liraz. "Why are you laughing?" "Because life's a bastard," was all Akiva could say. "Well then," was his sister's flat reply. "I guess we fit right in.

Things change. They can be changed, by those with the will.

Our enemies don't always stay where we put them.

Nuniek knew only too well when to stop, when to heed her husband's change of voice. She knew that you had to feel your way through a marriage, not unlike politics. Just when you thought your relationship with your husband was firmly in place, the tables began, ever so slightly and unfathomably, to turn.

Increasingly she realized there is no such thing as word-for-word equivalents with another language. When she translated a line, never mind an entire work, she became aware that the original ceased to be, as she had led it to a place where it could not survive in its pure form.

One thing always sure. Life go on with you or without you, no matter how much you seen.

Time partially reconciles us to anything. I gradually became content--doggedly contented, as wild animals in cages.

For each of us, he understood, is born into our own time and eventually the things we held as the center of our world, dearly, unforgivingly, must fade.

Any problem can be solved using the materials in the room.

An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed.

In my opinion, neither organisms nor organizations evolve slowly and surely into something better, but drift until some small change occurs which has immediate and overwhelming significance. The special role of the human being is not to wait for these favorable accidents but deliberately to introduce the small change that will have great significance.

We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.