Nor Crystal Tears Quotes

“Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.”
― Alan Dean Foster, Nor Crystal Tears

“A little bit of everything you admire eventually rubs off on you.”
― Alan Dean Foster, Nor Crystal Tears

“It's merely a matter of seeing them as people. As I've mentioned, they feel the same way about the tiny arthropods on their own worlds. We are each the stuff of the other's nightmares. These are primitive attitudes that both races must fight to overcome. There is no logic to them.”
― Alan Dean Foster, Nor Crystal Tears

“As it was for him. Their warm, smelly bodies pressed constantly around him and he had to struggle to suppress his own instinctive reactions. At least that was not a reciprocal problem. Even the two who actively disliked him confessed that his natural odor a cross between lemon and lilacs, whatever they were. More than once he caught a crew member inhaling with obvious pleasure in his presence. Their sense of smell was located in twin openings located just above their mouths, which struck Ryo as a particularly impractical arrangement. How odd it would be, he thought amusedly, if understanding should be reached between our species not on the basis of mutual interests or intellectual discourse, but because one of us smells good to the other.”
― Alan Dean Foster, Nor Crystal Tears