After watching Everlasting Regret

"Adapt, that is what you are going to do. Just as birds and animals must do if they are going to survive. Just like the sparrows and pigeons that have adapted themselves to city life and live on leftovers and rubbbish thrown to them in the streets instead of searching for grains and insects in the field, " Mon Repos explained, "so you wil have to adapt to your new environment."

- Village by the sea , Anita Desai