Halo Quotes

“All my young life I had lived on an invisible cushion of civilization. The struggles and designs of thousands of years of history had brought me to this pinnacle. I had had to exhibit only the tiniest minima of self-discipline to inherit the place my family had planned for me: the life of a privileged Forerunner, the very notion of which I found so restraining.”
― Greg Bear, Halo: Cryptum (Forerunner Saga, #1)

“There are points in life when everything changes, and changes in a big way. The old sophistic texts refer to these points as synchrons. Synchrons supposedly tie great forces and personalities together. You can’t predict them and you can’t avoid them.”
― Greg Bear, Halo: Cryptum (Forerunner Saga, #1)

“They understood the universe in ways we never will. We can't unlock their secrets—but now, apparently, we can destroy all they ever made. That's what I call progress.”
― Greg Bear, Halo: Cryptum

“The quest, the fight—never the finding or the victory.”
― Greg Bear, Halo: Cryptum (Forerunner Saga, #1)