Quotes from Alan Dean Foster

It wasn't the thought of death or the failure of their mission that troubled him as he sat there and played. It was a fear of personal failure, a fear that had haunted him since he'd been a child. It was the fear which had driven him to pursue two different careers without being able to choose between them. And though he didn't realize it, it was the fear which had driven more men and women to greatness than far more rational motivations… .

In his mildly stoned stupor he forgot that hubris is more deadly than any weapon.

Probably, an increasingly desperate Bala-Tik thought as he let off yet another ineffectual blast, Solo had done it by talking all of them into a state of complete insensibility.

Eying him, Finn felt he knew the type if not the man. His only fear then was that the man might shoot first and ask questions later. Thankfully, he did not.

I never answer that question until after I've done it.

You may not believe it, but there are some people out there who don't like me." "Hard to imagine," she murmured.

he had never killed anyone before. He still felt the same. The pistol had done the killing, not him. The man had set if off himself, as a consequence of his own idiotic actions.

The two stormtroopers might not have been tactically sophisticated, but they had been good shots.

A few, less constrained by pride and more resilient, survived and had children. Their offspring grew up with no illusions about the supremacy of humankind or anykind. They matured and observed the world around them through different eyes. Roll the log. Give and take. Bend with the wind. Adapt, adapt, adapt …!

Poe readied himself. The Resistance will not be intimidated by you. As you wish, then. There is no 'Resistance' in this room. Only the pilot Poe Dameron. And I.

Tut! They were justified in their feelings, if not the extremity of their reaction." He winked with his unglassed eye. "I was doubtless guilty of some indelicate prestidigitation of the dice. My mistake was that I was found out. "If they had actually caught and killed me, of course, I would have been somewhat more upset.

was certain: His former colleagues would not understand, no matter how hard he tried to explain. No one fled the First Order and lived. The sand sucked at his feet as he stumbled toward the rising smoke. "Poe! Say something if you can hear me! Poe!" He did not expect a response, but he hoped for one. Flame had joined smoke

Despite lack of any training with a lightsaber, Finn was athletic and courageous. In tandem with such traits, the saber made him a formidable fighter.

Despite the difference in size between the girl and her assailants, it was looking as if she was not in need of any outside assistance.

To date, however, the boy had proved himself relentlessly ordinary.

One did not have to be trained as a pilot to infer that a dead console did not bode well for future voyaging.

Facts can be most persuasive.

She stood and extended a hand. He glanced at it, his dark gaze rising to her face, then gratefully accepted her offer of assistance. "Follow me," Rey said. She turned and broke into a run, the grateful Finn allowing himself to be guided.

There's a Blarina merchant there named Ohn Gos who is afflicted with the sorry habit of listening sympathetically.

Man and thranx had been so close for so long that they were no longer thought of as aliens. More like short people in shiny suits.

was at once appalled and impressed. Personally, he could not recall having read or heard of an instance where a human economist had resolved a disagreement with a fellow academician by ripping out the other's tendons and ligaments.

Unlike in simulations, reality bled.

remove a trigger from a gun and while the trigger itself would look decidedly unimportant, its absence would render the gun useless.

No es vergonzoso admitir que no se sabe todo. Es una muestra de sabiduría, que es un talento mucho mas preciado que la fuerza física, o la capacidad de influir en la fuerza