Dwelling on life’s restrictions didn’t do much for anyone’s morale.
What happens to people when they realize they’re never going to die? Wow. The whole human existence is predicated on inevitable death.
What are these things? he asked. I saw them on the river, too. Ruby- and sapphire-colored insects were dancing above the surface of the puddle. Daywings, Etain said. I’ve never seen colors like it. Th...
We don’t do psyop. We’ve never worked with Spartans before. And we’re definitely not trained for this spook stuff. But how hard can it be? They were ODSTs. They could do anything. It was all about the...
That’s the worst thing about having chakaare like us around. We just wander off, find someplace you don’t know about, and hole up in it and get into all sorts of mischief that you know nothing about....
That much took no Force techniques to achieve, because a confident air of purpose often opened more doors than an ID pass. He
Somehow, though, they managed to ignore the fact that being the dominant species on Earth meant that absolutely nothing about their position was inevitable or beyond their control.
She held her hand out to him. He hesitated for a moment and then reached across the table and took it. We could be dead tomorrow, both of us, she said. Or the next day, or next week. That’s war. She t...
Rock shrews. It had all started with damned rock shrews.
Regular people said they couldn’t tell the difference between one clone and another, did they? That was what came of spending too much time looking at faces and not enough wondering what shaped people...
Leave nothing but footprints, take nothing but memories.
It never ceased to amaze Skirata how much simpler it was to buy and sell death than it was to pay taxes.
Is it better to not get to know them?' 'No. It's not. It's sharking your responsibility, and it's disrespectful. Get to know them, and then you fully understand the price you're asking them to pay.
If you can’t take a joke, you shouldn’t have joined.
If we were given one word of information in our entire history, how we'd treasure it! how we'd pore over ever syllable, divining it's meaning, arguing its importance; how we'd examine it and wring eve...
I don’t know who the good guys are anymore. But I do know what the enemy is. It’s the compromise of principles. You lose the war when you lose your principles. And the first principle is to look out f...
Family took a lot more than genes to hold it together
Dom decided that when life returned to normal—even after fourteen years, he had to think that it could—he’d follow Cole’s example and treat money as easy come, easy go. People were what mattered. You...
Darman: I want my HUD back. I want my enhanced view.Fi: But you get to wear face camo instead. Makes you feel wild and dangerous.Sev: I'm wild. And then I get dangerous. Shut up.Fi: Copy that. [exits...
Covering his tracks by randomizing his route back to the apartment had become routine for Skirata now, which was a bizarre irony in itself.