Quotes About Adaptation

Are we at mercy of technology or is technology at mercy of us?

their nineteen-sixties with the flowers in the guns and their summers of love, as if all we'd had was winter, all we'd had was rations. Just very good at keeping quiet, is what we were. We had to be. It was the way. Them with their jet-age.

Animals, Mark, have no use for nostalgia, Aunt Kenna says. It is not a tool for survival, my darling. But

It is like her mother has been struck by - what? Lightening. Her mother has lightened up since the moment they landed in this country and the plane door opened and the warmer air came in. The moment they walked into this room she lightened even more

You can't stop change, the man says. It comes of necessity. You have to go with it and make something of what it makes of you.

There's ways to survive these times, Doubleclick, and I think one way is the shape the telling takes.

There's ways to survive these times, Doubledick, and I think one way is the shape the telling takes

Never mind literal climate change, there's been a whole seasonal shift. It's like walking in a blizzard all the time just trying to get to what's really happening beyond the noise and hype.

Eras end, Paulina said. I'm Romanian. I know. They have to. So that new eras can begin.

Working title? Paddy says. <...> Same as the novel, he says. To persuade people it's an adaptation of something a lot of people bought so it must be good.

the whole point of Bagatelle is that you trifle with the stories that people think are set in stone.

Everything, sooner or later, transforms into story.

Not whole thing works as configured. Not everyone acts as trained.

The rain could not last forever; Nature must cease weeping some time. Just as girls, far away from their old homes and their old friends, must cease wetting their pillows with regretful tears after a time, and look forward to the new interests and new friends to which they have come.

Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player.

But teaching was like a rubber band. It could expand and take in all kinds of experience, or it could remain, wound tight and unyielding, around the small package that was your life. Perhaps it had something to do with the kind of person you were. Perhaps it only depended on circumstances.

The others adapted, for nothing quelled a revolution more quickly—wrote Pauline Schulz—than the prevailing powers inviting it in for drinks.

Parenting is not about going back," she said. "Parenting is all about moving forward, and constant, unpredictable change.

Some things, when they change, never do return to the way they once were. Butterflies for instance, and women who've been in love with the wrong man too often.

All loss is gain. Since I have become so near-sighted I see no dust nor squalor, and therefore conceive of myself as living in splendor.

The Bouviers and the Lees alike operated within the great American tradition of immigrant ambition, which held that in making yourself anew, you had the right to embellish the past.

Don't cry because it's over; smile because it happened. And if you can't do that, force a smile on your face and sob into your pillow later.

We don't have control over our lives. We just have control over how we take things.

Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results we value it in the act.