Acclimation Quotes

“I was persisting in reading my present environment in the light of my old one.”
― Richard Wright, Black Boy

“I was seized by doubt. Should I have come here? But going back was impossible. I had fled a known terror, and perhaps I could cope with this unknown terror that lay ahead.”
― Richard Wright, Black Boy

“If I’m my biggest fan, the odds are I’m my only fan.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“There will come a day for each of us, and then for all of us, when the future will be done with. Until then, humanity will acclimate itself to every new horror that comes knocking as it has done from the very beginning.”
― Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race

“In the summer of 1776, the average British soldier was 28 years old with seven years experience in the Army. The average American soldier was 20 and had known military life for only six months.”
― Joseph J. Ellis, Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence

“There’s less need to slowly acclimate these guys to the tank,” Bailey said. “They’ll be food pretty soon, so their happiness is less important than the shark’s.”
― Dave Eggers, The Circle

“I look around at people and I often wonder if the darkness within them has any idea that there could be something other than darkness.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“He quashed his memories too. His life in Canton - his mother, his grandparents, a decade of running about the docks - it all proved surprisingly easy to shed, perhaps because this passage was so jarring, the break so complete. He'd left behind everything he'd known. There was nothing to cling to, nothing to escape back to. His world now was Professor Lovell, Mrs. Piper, and the promise of a country on the other side of the ocean. He buried his past life, not because it was so terrible but because abandoning it was the only way to survive. He pulled on his English accent like a new coat, adjusted everything he could about himself to make it fit, and within weeks, wore it in comfort. In weeks, no one was asking him to speak a few words in Chinese for their entertainment. In weeks, no one seemed to remember he was Chinese at all.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel