Quotes About Adaptation

She thinks of all that will have to be done to dismantle a life.

If one has a good reputation and trusted, the rules can be bent to accommodate.

But after a while, that too passes, and she and Jack go back to normal, as they have been before, which is to say that they, like all the other couples Kathryn has ever known, live in a state of gentle decline, of being infinitesimally, but not agonizingly, less than they were the day before.

kind of necessary acceptance will form around her, like a lobster making its new shell, one that will be soft and easily breakable in the beginning but so hard that only lobster crackers can shatter it in the end. She can hardly wait.

Years had passed, and all of life was different now.

Es decir, ellos, como todas las otras parejas que ha conocido, viven en un estado de suave declive, de convertirse, de modo sutil y sin torturas, cada día en algo menos de lo que eran el día anterior.

It's not what happens to us that molds us. It's what we do with what happens to us.

She used to cry roughly three times a year. Now she seemed to cry three times before breakfast. Could that be considered progress?

Love didn't necessarily look the way you expected it to.

Grief was like a newborn, and the first three months were hard as hell, but by six months you'd recognized defeat, shifted your life around, and made room for it.

It was funny how the old practices always came around again. It was the rhythm of human enterprise to invent and worship some new approach, to fully reject it a generation later, to realize the need for it again a generation or two after that and then hastily reinvent it as new, usually without its original elegance. Scientists hated to look backward for anything.

No matter how far back you cut a willow tree, it will never really die.

Carmen didn't like change, and she certainly didn't like endings.

But like everything else, love changed.

Tibby, who was not fond of change, had once told Bridget that the present, no matter what it brought, couldn't change the past. The past was set and sealed.

I knew her hair and her coloring and her shapes would be different next time, but the way she wore her body would keep on.

Bouncing is for balls. -Tibby Rollins

You have to be like a turtle, she thought; you have to figure out how to bring your home along with you.

Le chagrin, c'est comme un nouveau-né, les trois premiers mois, c'est l'enfer et, au bout de six mois, on finit par s'avouer vaincu, on réorganise sa vie en fonction de lui, on lui fait de la place.

They were more like the grown-up dog whose family loved it but had to move to an apartment in Korea (is it Korea?) where people sometimes eat dogs.

It was the rhythm of human enterprise to invent and worship some new approach, to fully reject it a generation later, to realize the need for it again a generation or two after that and then hastily reinvent it as new, usually without its original elegance.

He was never very good at talking about feelings. He'd been on his own for so long that it was as if he'd had to learn a new language

EARLIER IMMIGRANTS WERE CHAMPS AT ASSIMILATION

When I was older, I could move to some place (like Australia or Kentucky) where the boys act more like human beings.