Quotes About Adaptation

Do you know what a foreign accent is? It's a sign of bravery.

What you forget, living here, is that just because you have stopped sinking doesn't mean you're not still underwater.

She traveled the world, and turned into the person she could be in other places with people she would never see again.

You know what happens when you feed the birds? They forget to fly south and freeze to death.

You should think about your character. Know where you are changing, how you will be changed, what cannot be changed back again.

Forever did not mean what it once had. Forever was what changed inevitably over time.

The life we receive is not always what we choose.

Life's always a big fucking compromise. You don't always get what you want, no matter how smart you are, how hard you work, how good you are. That's a myth. We're all hanging in the best way we can.

I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what's comfortable and routine, and then you get to see things with fresh eyes, with new eyes.

Why would any writer in her right mind ever consider making a movie instead? That's like going from being a monk or a nun to serving as a camp counselor for hundreds of problem children.

I learned to make things not matter, to put a seal on my hopes and place them on a high shelf, out of reach. And by telling myself that there was nothing inside those hopes anyway, I avoided the wounds of deep disappointment.

Fate once made you American. Fate took it away.

How funny to see the foreigner in a farmer's work hat, like a fish that has put on clothes. Around

If you live with a cripple, you will learn to limp. —Plutarch

When I am most deeply rooted, I feel the wildest desire to uproot myself.

Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.

When I first met him, he did not care if a friend did not fit into his world, because at that time his world had not been born yet.

I was stirred only like a leaf in the wind, that is all. . .

One does not learn to suffer less but to dodge pain.

he words we did not shout, the tears unshed, the curse we swallowed, the phrase we shortened, the love we killed, turned into magnetic iron ore, into tourmaline, into pyrite agate, blood congealed into cinnabar, blood calcinated, leadened into galena, oxidized, aluminized, sulphated, calcinated, the mineral glow of dead meteors and exhausted suns in the forest of dead trees and dead desires.

Perfection is static, and I am in full progress. The faithful wife is only one phase, one moment, one metamorphosis, one condition.

What is necessary to life, to livingness, is to move on, in other words to move from one kind of problem to another. Jung has mentioned this. The neurotic is obsessed with one kind of problem. He cannot move on.

I had been hired to prepare the mountain for the people instead of the other way around.

It was possible that when the climbers were ready, the mountain wouldn't be