Quotes About Adaptation

One of the great New Testament words is Now. That was then, this is now.

So everything is something else.

I used to love dogs until I discovered cats.

Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.

L'exil accélère l'oubli. L'exil va vite. Il suffit de quelques mois parfois, d'une année ou deux, pour que le pays qui était le sien ne soit plus le même.

He couldn't say the words, had spent too long in Silence, but he'd learned other ways to speak. Taking the paperweight she'd knocked off her desk out of his pocket, he put it in her hands. "It's fixed. As long as you don't mind more than a few scars.

Because he, more than anyone, knew that sometimes, love wasn't enough. Sometimes, people changed so deeply that the change broke love itself.

Pups think rules are suggestions.

This time, his bear stayed quiet, finally getting with the "sneaky like a cat" program. Today

But plants grow again," She murmured, focusing on the verdant beauty around her. "They put down new roots, create room for themselves in foreign soil.

Only the stupid regret choices. The smart learn to adapt.

Pero tú tienes una ventaja —susurró—. Ahora eres un poquito humano.

He was having a hard time with Aodhan so far out of reach, the two yet struggling to come to a balance in their relationship - Illium had become used to being the stronger one in the partnership, the one who looked after a badly traumatized Aodhan. But Aodhan was coming out of his shell, and the man he'd become wasn't the boy Illium remembered.

Life changes us. To wish otherwise is pointless.—Nimra, Angel of New Orleans

The logical connection was irrefutable. Her vision channels were being forced to encompass more than the narrow field of commerce, thereby becoming wider. The subject matter or palatability of the new visions was irrelevant. That they

she'd been shaped by the winds of another life. Now

Left Foot, Right In

Nalo Hopkinson

I'm happy to be here," he thought to himself as he shined an old woman's mirror, "and I know this is better than the Great Swamp of Ink, but it isn't what I expected at all.

A Raggy Dog, a Shaggy Dog In

I had put on beauty as a hermit crab puts on a discarded shell.

We do not know a planet that is home. We are always home. It is our job to see and map and learn languages and stories and carry them from place to place.

We are all here, all the powers of the Ginen lives for all the centuries that they have been in existence, and we all fight. We change when change is needed. We are a little different in each place that the Ginen have come to rest, and any one of is already many powers. No cancer can fell us all, no blight cover us completely.

So often, life isn't what we expect—or want—it to be. I know this isn't the most profound statement, but it's true—shit happens . . . and we just either have to soldier on . . . or not.