Quotes About Adaptation

Other crack teams get bat boomerangs and wall-climbing powers; we get Aquatruck.

Sometimes," Jem said, "our lives can change so fast that the change outpaces our minds and hearts. It's those times, I think, when our lives have altered but we still long for the time before everything was altered-- that is when we feel the greatest pain. I can tell you, though, from experience, you grow accustomed to it. You learn to live your new life, and you can't imagine, or even really remember, how things were before.

You've always been what you are. That's not new. What you'll get used to is knowing it.

Everything changes in my life, and the world stays the same.

Change is no loss, Will. Not always.

I think you ought to let me take poor Tessa into town to get some new clothes. Otherwise, the first time she takes a deep breath, that dress will fall right off her." Will looked interested. "I think she should try that out now and see what happens.

Change is not always accomplished peacefully, but that does not make it disadventageous.

He wondered if normalcy was something, like vision or silence, you didn't realize was precious until you lost it.

Those of us who do not live forever do not like change perhaps as much as those of you who do.

We get used to living one way, even if it's a bad way or a hard one. When that's gone, there's a hole to fill. It's in our nature to try to fill it with anxieties and fears. It can take time to fill it with good things instead.

As long as she is alive and well and happy in this world, I will find a way to be happy as well, even if it is not beside her

I think you were the wrong person for the Jace that I was, but not the Jace that I am now, the Jace you helped make me. Who is, incidentally, a Jace I like much better than the old one. You've changed me for the better, and even if you left me, I would still have that.

Their closeness wouldn't break, but it would bend and stretch into a new shape.

There was a time I thought I was a ferret.

Eres como yo. Dices las cosas que pienso pero nunca digo en voz alta. Lees los libros que leo. Amas la poesía que yo amo. Me haces reír con tus canciones ridículas y la forma en que lo ves todo. Siento como si pudieras mirar dentro de mí y ver todos los lugares en los que soy extraña o inusual y adaptas tu corazón alrededor de ellos porque eres extraño e inusual de la misma forma. Somos lo mismo.

People could bear so much, but Simon did not know how much of the original you was left when the world had twisted you into a whole different shape.

Sorry. Was it awful?" "Being a rat? No. First it was disorienting. I was suddenly at ankle-level with everyone. I thought I'd drunk a shrinking potion, but I couldn't figure out why I had this urge to chew used gum wrappers.

We can't shape what we don't understand, and what we don't understand and use ends up shaping us.

I was of the "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, then wonder why life didn't give you freaking sugar so you could drink the stuff" school of thought.

Nothing is static; things always change. The best you can do is change along with them and work with what you have.

If you can change things, change them, but don't waste time worrying about things you can't change.

Blue Eyes, if you do not know the tosi tivo way, we must do it the Comanche way.

Henry jerked up his left suspender and raked his hand through his hair, looking at the hole Rachel had shot in the puncheon. "What in hell you gonna tell people happened to your floor, missy?" Rachel smiled. "Why, I'll tell them how quick you got in and fixed it, Henry. We can't have holes in the floor, can we?

There are cultures on Earth that are more alien than some of the aliens in SF. More extensive quote: "the theme of immersion into different cultures comes naturally to science fiction, since a major theme of the genre is how humans interact with 'alien' cultures. Yet many of the so-called alien cultures of science fiction, particularly in its younger days, felt myopic, more like Western cultures even than other cultures on our own planet.