Relic Quotes

“Two surviving human beings on the entire planet, Ruslan thought, and they can’t stand each other. A fitting metaphor for the entire species.”
― Alan Dean Foster, Relic

“I talk to myself,” he had once explained to his minder. “I have conversations with myself. I debate with myself.” He remembered smiling. “Sometimes I even win the arguments.”
― Alan Dean Foster, Relic

“It was left to San’dwil to sum up the totality of the attempt. “So you can make the bodies live but cannot bring back consciousness.” Wol’daeen gestured affirmatively. “It is most exasperating. The resurrected forms have all the appearance of life but none of the necessary cognitive functions.”
― Alan Dean Foster, Relic