Quotes About Adaptation

All things change, for that is the way of the world we walk through.

Nature could be shifted, but not controlled.

In two weeks a man could completely refashion his history; he could walk all the way to Ohio or Iowa, change his name and his accent, disappear into another life. In the woods, footprints faded, the wind rose up to disperse of clothing, flesh became grass.

I was not pleased to be sent from my mother, but I occupied myself, a skill learned by children who must sometimes act older than their age.

The things that go wrong are rarely the things you,ve thought to worry about.

I saw this was the way of the future, to leave the past behind as if it were a dream.

what you give up you can learn to live without, even if it causes you heartbreak at the start. Whether you are mortal or not, you go on, even if sorrow nags

Sometimes you think you know what's going to happen next, and then the world surprises you

I was so unaccustomed to such emotions it took some time before I realized I was happy. The sea was ever changing, ever interesting

Once upon a time, before the whole world changed, it was possible to run away from home, disguise who you were, and fit into polite society

All the same, some things stay with you forever. You are a different person now. You know it and I know it. You're not the same. You're a survivor. Congratulations.

It's amazing what you can block out when you really try. Although some things stay with you no matter what they affect everything that you do.

Loss does different things to different people. Some fall apart. Some, like the Finder, rebuild. I have done both. I have crawled under my table and refused to come out. I have covered myself with thorns and tattoos. I have planted a garden, reached out to my neighbors, begun to write down my story.

It is foolish to cry over things you cannot change

A fish and a sparrow cannot live in the same world. one will gasp for air and the other will drown.

But now he had been forced to learn many skills; how to fix a roof, how to cook, how to steal, how to say goodbye.

He could not make conversations with strangers, and yet conversations with strangers were perhaps the first thing required of him in his new life.

Like exiles, their delight was not in where they now found themselves but in whatever they could remember about the place, and the time, they had abandoned.

A human being born into a cold, indifferent world will regard his situation as the only possible one.

It occurred to him, and had occurred to him before, that there was after all something to be said for dealing with things the way most people of his age seemed to do. It was sensible perhaps to stop noticing, to believe that this was still the same world they were living in, with some dreadful but curable aberrations, never to understand how the whole arrangement had altered.

And so it often happened with those practical people. In spite of their calculations, their survival instincts, they might not get as far as they had quite reasonable expected.

It would be better to think that time had soured and thinned and made commonplace a brew that used to sparkle, that difficulties had altered us both, and not for the better.

El invierno cae con dureza sobre el campo, se asienta en él como la capa de hielo de tres metros de profundidad hace miles de años. La gente vive envuelta en el invierno de un modo que los extraños no comprenden. Mantienen una actitud precavida, previsora, tranquila, animosa.

There's no condition one adjusts to so quickly as a state of war.