Alien In a Small Town Quotes

“Cause this town needs a little color. And I like you.”

“Oh. Thank you,” Paul said. “‘Color’?”

“Diversity. Spice. Excitement. Something to break the monotony,” she said.

“Oh,” he said. “I thought that was exactly what people here didn’t want.”

She smiled wickedly. “Yeaaaaaah.”
― Jim Cleaveland, Alien In a Small Town

“She grew dimly aware of a sound of movement in the trees some distance behind her. Indeed, the noise had gone on some while and been growing louder, but she'd been too absorbed in her half-somnolent ruminations to notice. Unlikely though it was that a large bear had appeared out of the woods with intent to eat her, she conceded it was possible, and so she probably ought to look. With a grunt, she shifted around and beheld an extraterrestrial... The ground trembled at its approach, not in time with its footsteps, but rather as through the thing were growling in a voice so deep only seismographs could hear it plainly. The tentacled hulk moved awkwardly through the trees, but it would none the less be upon her in moments. When it was near her, she addressed it. "Evening," she said, and yawned.”
― Jim Cleaveland, Alien In a Small Town

“Paul grasped humor only imperfectly, but supposed he could see the absurdity of it from a human perspective. “Yes, and you are a very charming bipedal bladder of fluid,” he said. “Nicest thing anyone’s said to me all day!”
― Jim Cleaveland, Alien In a Small Town