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81 " If we who are honored with life do not perceive the obvious, then we are forced to live it again, around another corner, from another angle. "
― Greg Bear , Halo: Silentium
82 " Fear is a drug you need to survive. Without fear, you die quicker; that’s part of basic, that’s what the old guys instill in us when we’re fledglings waiting and eager to fly; fear is your friend, but only in controlled doses, never in such flooding waves that you panic. Panic kills you quicker than bullets. Panic turns you into doomed animals. "
― Greg Bear , War Dogs (War Dogs, #1)
83 " You always knew what you wanted to be didn’t you? He asked Edward.More or less.Smart moves, a gynecologist. Never false moves. I was different, I had goals but no direction. Like a map without roads, just places to be. "
― Greg Bear , Blood Music
84 " It went okay." Kaye shifted her eyes to one side and shrugged. "Rachel Browning tried to pull down my shorts.""Did she succeed?" Cross asked."Got them down to my curlies," Kaye said.The young men looked ready to appear shocked, should Cross be. Cross laughed. "Jesus, Kaye. I never know what I'm going to hear from you. You drive my PR folks nuts. "
― Greg Bear
85 " I now understand why humans smile. Forerunners have done all they can to banish smiles. Not all smiles are about greetings and joy. Some smile in shared pain. "
86 " MY HUSBAND … HAS become a child again. But not any sort of child I’d be proud of. Not any sort of child I would trust. "
87 " 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 (Forerunner Saga, #1) (Halo, #8)
88 " named Wendell Berry, often used by citizens of Thistledown. The slate's simple "
― Greg Bear , The Eon Series: Legacy, Eon, and Eternity (The Way, #1-3)
89 " Sparkling lakes and rivers on Earth … pictures of Thierry riding his solar-powered yacht around the world. That sort of thing. All very attractive to a Moon girl.” “Did "
― Greg Bear , Far Thoughts and Pale Gods
90 " We were not then powerful enough to erase all evidence of the Precursors, to destroy their star roads and citadels and other artifacts. And so we left at least one Precursor behind, to live out dreams of vengeance and hatred, to lay down plans in cold and darkness at the heart of a lost asteroid—over millions of years. "
91 " If the Domain is destroyed, I have condemned my husband to an eternity of darkness, silence, with only his own rage and madness to keep him company. "
92 " 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
93 " They start again as children—all together. It is what the Composer was designed to prevent. "
94 " But love and loyalty could not be earned by indebtedness. "
― Greg Bear , Eternity (The Way, #2)
95 " Can the Flood choose to infect, or not to infect? "
96 " 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. "
97 " 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. "
98 " the children were no longer fast gods, but pigeons in the head of a very quiet, dark bomb, "
― Greg Bear , Anvil of Stars (Forge of God, #2)
99 " He held her hand and shook his head. "They're inside, part of us by now. They are us. Where can we escape? "
100 " Being scared is nothing,” the old woman said. “Being bored, or ignorant—now that’s a crime. "
― Greg Bear , Sleepside: The Collected Fantasies of Greg Bear