Halo Quotes

“When all hopes are lost, only then does reality acquire that sharp focus that defines who we are and what we have become.”
― Greg Bear, Halo: Primordium

“So this additional indignity will be inflicted upon you. It means, I believe, that humans will not end here, but may rise again—fight again. Humans are always warriors.”
― Greg Bear, Halo: Primordium: Book Two of the Forerunner Saga

“It is no crime. I once felt affection for a Warrior-Servant as I hunted his ships and destroyed his fighters. No lover ever felt my attentions so fiercely.”
― Greg Bear, Halo: Primordium: Book Two of the Forerunner Saga

“enough so”
― Greg Bear, Halo: Primordium: Book Two of the Forerunner Saga

“No immunity and no cure. There is only struggle, or succumb. Either way, the Primordial will have its due. We have met our creators, they have given us the answers we sought—and that is our curse.”
― Greg Bear, Halo: Primordium: Book Two of the Forerunner Saga

“Can the Flood choose to infect, or not to infect?”
― Greg Bear, Halo: Primordium: Book Two of the Forerunner Saga

“Work, fight, live. All the sweeter. Mind after mind will shape and absorb. In the end, all will be quiet with wisdom.”
― Greg Bear, Halo: Primordium: Book Two of the Forerunner Saga

“What I could not understand was why the Didact had decided to save one of those very weapons whose creation he had so decisively opposed.”
― Greg Bear, Halo: Primordium: Book Two of the Forerunner Saga

“Having undergone that disintegration and dying of past individuals and rebirth into something vastly more powerful, all these creatures had joined millions of years before into its own early Gravemind, far more than the sum of its parts.”
― Greg Bear, Halo: Primordium: Book Two of the Forerunner Saga

“All that I was, but for reflections in a cracked mirror, has been lost for a long, long time.”
― Greg Bear, Halo: Primordium: Book Two of the Forerunner Saga

“This is the one who betrays Forerunners, their own greatest monster. We know this one. Remember?”
― Greg Bear, Halo: Primordium: Book Two of the Forerunner Saga

“They start again as children—all together. It is what the Composer was designed to prevent.”
― Greg Bear, Halo: Primordium: Book Two of the Forerunner Saga

“You smell bad,” Riser observed. “I want to piss my pants,” I said. “Me, too,” Riser said. “Let’s not and say we did.”
― Greg Bear, Halo: Primordium: Book Two of the Forerunner Saga

“Occupation of vast reaches of space means nothing. It is control of population centers and essential resources that determines victory or defeat.”
― Greg Bear, Halo: Primordium: Book Two of the Forerunner Saga

“My finest opponent, the Mantle accepts all who live fiercely, who defend their young, who build and struggle and grow, and even those who dominate—as humans have dominated, cruelly and without wisdom.”
― Greg Bear, Halo: Primordium: Book Two of the Forerunner Saga

“All dreams are young, my host, my friend. All dreams belong to youth, whether they be nightmares or idylls.”
― Greg Bear, Halo: Primordium: Book Two of the Forerunner Saga

“We shouldn’t cross this place,” I said. “A bad, sad place. It doesn’t know it’s dead.”
― Greg Bear, Halo: Primordium: Book Two of the Forerunner Saga

“Of course! We laid waste their fleets, attacked their outpost worlds.… And the Forerunners themselves found a way to bring down the indestructible architecture of the Precursors, on Charum Hakkor.… Charum Hakkor, once called the Eternal.”
― Greg Bear, Halo: Primordium: Book Two of the Forerunner Saga

“We survived the Shaping Sickness. Forerunners hoped to learn the secret of how we survived the Shaping Sickness, but we would not give it to them, even under torture!”
― Greg Bear, Halo: Primordium: Book Two of the Forerunner Saga

“The horizon curved upward to both sides. Not good, not right. Horizons do not curve up.”
― Greg Bear, Halo: Primordium: Book Two of the Forerunner Saga