Quotes About Adaptation

Gardening is not outcome-oriented. A successful harvest is not the end of a gardener's existence, but only a phase of it. As any gardener knows, the vitality of a garden does not end with a harvest. It simply takes another form. Gardens do not die in the winter but quietly prepare for another season.

The walls are everywhere. Limits. You're not smart enough, not rich enough. You get tired. You die. Some people like to pretend they've broken out. That they're running free. But there's no escape. You have to find a way to live within the walls. And then, they don't matter.

You are an endless project...changing, evolving, surprising.

Does anything on you work properly? Asked ter Borcht. Well, I do have a highly developed sense of irony. Replied Iggy.

Well, I don't know. Mostly I just suck up what life throws my way, stomp on it, and then keep going. I don't dwell much on what I am or how I got this way. It just is. I just am. I'm Max, and whatever form I take, it's good enough for me.

Like we were just jagged puzzle pieces that made no sense alone but together we fit perfectly. That's what life is supposed to be like for normal people right? You find that other piece that matches yours that completes yours. And you make the jags and the crevices fit, even if they don't go in perfectly smooth, even if they require a few adjustments. You don't demand perfection you make it work and appreciate the parts that fit instead of obsessing about the small angles that don't.

Speed never killed anyone! It's suddenly becoming stationary… that's what gets you.

Fang is not the huggiest person in the world—he turns into an unbending statue, and you just have to do the best you can. Which

There comes a point in everybody's life when you realize the stakes have suddenly changed. The carefree ride of your life slams into a stone wall; all those years of merely bouncing along, life taking you where you want to go, abruptly end.

Life goes on. It just does, whether we're ready for the next chapter or not. Embrace it.

Fortunately, we could all see pretty well in the dark. Especially Iggy.

Le secret pour rester en vie? Ne jamais cesser de respirer.

A vida é aquilo que acontece quando se está ocupado a fazer outros planos

to hug Toni Burgess and Sandy Wilson, the Devil Girlz we'd met in Taylor Creek, Oregon. Correction: former Devil Girlz. There was no sign of leather. Instead Toni was in a dress and had soccer-mom hair, and she said she was going back to teaching school. Sandy just looked sweet. More people were introduced: lawyers for both sides, and His Honor Marlon Sykes, a judge

Just as the snake sheds its skin over and over, we must shed our past.

walking food source.

The Smileys, of course, are still the Smileys. They just have more room to frown in.

Let's hear it for spontaneous mutation, folks!

back to the city.

He's playing Linus. Lucy's supposed to be his sister. How's that going to look? I mean, in the comic strip, Lucy only has black hair." Her whole table titter-giggles. "I guess this is why the show is called You're a Good Man, Charlie… Brown!" Meredith

If life gives you lemons, learn how to juggle.

I guess. But not in the, uh, traditional way.

How about you, Rafe?" she asked when Georgia finally took a breath. "What do you think of middle school so far?" "Well," I said, "it's not as bad as I thought it was going to

Isn't it funny how just changing your location changes your perspective?