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Quotes About Evolution

isn't a sadness, but a joy, that we don't do the same things for the length of our lives.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
I was fully devoted to it, and now I'm not. I think if I'd become a professional, I would likely have fallen out of love with it anyway. It isn't a sadness, but a joy, that we don't do the same things for the length of our lives.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
It occurred to Sadie: She had thought after Ichigo that she would never fail again. She had thought she arrived. But life was always arriving. There was always another gate to pass through. (Until, of course, there wasn't.)
~ Gabrielle Zevin
What was amazing to Sam—and what became a theme of the games he would go on to make with Sadie—was how quickly the world could shift. How your sense of self could change depending on your location. As Sadie would put it in an interview with
~ Gabrielle Zevin
She had thought after Ichigo that she would never fail again. She had thought she arrived. But life was always arriving. There was always another gate to pass through. (Until, of course, there wasn't.)
~ Gabrielle Zevin
I què és l'amor, al capdavall -va dir l'Alabaster-, tret del desig irracional de deixar de banda la competitivitat evolutiva per facilitar el viatge d'algú altre a través de la vida?
~ Gabrielle Zevin
The easiest way to get old is to be technologically behind
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Gabrielle Zevin
~ Glass Flowers
A good game designer knows that clinging to a few early ideas about a project can cut off the potential for the work.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Typically, a game character stays the same age and of the series---think Mario or Lara Croft. The reasons for this are simple: branding, and it is much less work .
~ Gabrielle Zevin
And what is love, in the end? Alabaster said. Except the irrational desire to put evolutionary competitiveness aside in order to ease someone else's journey through life?
~ Gabrielle Zevin
as coisas que nos tocam aos vinte não são necessariamente as que nos tocam aos quarenta, e vice-versa. isso é verdade para livros e para a vida.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
But life was always arriving. There was always another gate to pass through.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Tell me something from Spanish literature," Schiele said. "I'll give you a line from my favorite novel. 'Los seres humanos no nacen para siempre el dia en que sus madres los alumbran, sino que la vida los obliga a parirse a si mismos una y otra vez.'" ("Humans are not born forever on the day their mothers have them; life necessitates giving birth to themselves over and over again.")
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Living, it seemed to her, was the acquiring of bad habits. Dying, the process of rescinding them.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Sadie and Marx took a cab back to the hotel. "Do you mind what your father said?" she asked him. "No," Marx said. "I loved being a student actor. I was fully devoted to it, and now I'm not. I think if I'd become a professional, I would likely have fallen out of love with it anyway. It isn't a sadness, but a joy, that we don't do the same things for the length of our lives.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
She doesn't recognize the number—none of her friends use their phones as phones anymore.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
I also think people didn't truly understand the Internet back then, if indeed they can be said to understand it now.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Ismay has aged like an actress should: from Juliet to Ophelia to Gertrude to Hecate.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
She realized what a gate was: it was an indication that you had left one space and were entering another. She walked through another gate. It occurred to Sadie: She had thought after Ichigo that she would never fail again. She had thought she arrived. But life was always arriving. There was always another gate to pass through. (Until, of course, there wasn't.)
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Emily B. Marks.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
my latter-day reaction speaks to the necessity of encountering stories at precisely the right time in our lives. Remember, Maya: the things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Det vi tar till oss som tjugoåringar är inte nödvändigtvis samma saker som vi tar till oss som fyrtioåringar och vice versa. Detta gäller både böcker och livet i allmänhet (s. 51).
~ Gabrielle Zevin
What was amazing to Sam—and what became a theme of the games he would go on to make with Sadie—was how quickly the world could shift. How your sense of self could change depending on your location.
~ Gabrielle Zevin