My favorite is from Edward Buck during the Human - Covenant War
“If I were any better, I’d be a spartan.”
“The peaceful one is at war without and within”
-The Mantle, Fifth Permutation of the Didact’s Number
Halo Cryptum Page 9
Sincerely,
p1ay4OURFUN
I don’t remember the exact wording of it (don’t have a copy of The Fall of Reach on hand either), but one of my personal favorites is Mendez’s quote about how it is acceptable to spend lives if necessary, but not to waste them. If someone could provide an exact quote and page number, I would greatly appreciate it.
“Were it so easy”
“As any Warrior will tell you, uneven gravity is a [expletive, possibly sacrilegious, untranslatable].”
- Ur-Didact, Halo: Silentium
“I? I am a monument to all your sins.”
-The Gravemind
I’ll just quote myself from a similar topic in the past:
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> “Listen to me, Covenant. I am Vice Admiral Preston J. Cole commanding the human flagship, Everest. You claim to be the holy and glorious inheritors of the universe? I spit on your so-called holiness. You dare judge us unfit? After I have personally sent more than three hundred of your vainglorious ships to hell? After kicking your collective butts off Harvest—not once—but twice? From where I sit, we are the worthy inheritors. You think otherwise, you can come and try to prove me wrong.” (Preston J. Cole)
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> I don’t remember the exact wording of it (don’t have a copy of The Fall of Reach on hand either), but one of my personal favorites is Mendez’s quote about how it is acceptable to spend lives if necessary, but not to waste them. If someone could provide an exact quote and page number, I would greatly appreciate it.
‘The Fall of Reach’, Chapter 7 (the page number will vary by book edition):
> “A leader must be ready to send the soldiers under his command to their deaths,” Mendez said without turning to face John. “You do this because your duty to the UNSC supersedes your duty to yourself or even your crew.”
> John looked away from the view screen. He couldn’t look at the emptiness anymore. He didn’t want to think of his teammates - friends who were like brothers and sisters to him - forever lost.
> “It is acceptable,” Mendez said, “to spend their lives if necessary.” He finally turned and meet John’s gaze. “It is not acceptable, however, to waste those lives. Do you understand the difference?”
> “I…believe I understand, sir,” John said. “But which was it on this last mission? Lives spent? Or lives wasted?”
> Mendez turned back toward the blackness of space and didn’t answer.
“Was it?”
John-117 to Lock in one of the advertisments.
'Tanks beat everything."
“Well…Crap!” - Edward Buck, Halo 5
I also like Bungie’s Halo: Reach Legendary Ending goodbye screen.Correct me if I’m wrong, but if Bungie can see this, it certainly has been “…one helluva ride”.
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> “Were it so easy”
^^^^^
> Soon the Great Journey shall begin. But when it does, the weight of your heresy will stay your feet and you shall be left behind.
> - Prophet of Truth
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> “Were it so easy”
Lol you beat me! Sigh… we’re it so easy
“This thing is starting to piss me off!”
“Marine! <em>Did I give you permission to -Yoink!-?</em>”
-Sergeant Banks, Metropolis, Halo 2
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> “As any Warrior will tell you, uneven gravity is a [expletive, possibly sacrilegious, untranslatable].”
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> - Ur-Didact, Halo: Silentium
I remember reading this and losing it at the mental image of a 7+ foot Promethean floating about in nonuniform gravitation and cursing in early Digon (in a possibly sacrilegious way of course).
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“This is the prototype NOVA bomb, nine fusion warheads encased in lithium triteride armor. When detonated, it compresses its fissionable material to neutron-star density, boosting the thermonuclear yield a hundredfold. I am Vice Admiral Danforth Whitcomb, temporarily in command of the UNSC military base Reach. To the Covenant uglies that might be listening, you have a few seconds to pray to your -Yoink!- heathen gods. You all have a nice day in hell…”
Probably a go-to quote for me would have to be “Were it so easy” from the Arbiter.
“When I joined the core we didn’t have any fancy smancy tanks. Just two sticks a rock, and we had to share the rock between a whole platoon.”
You know who said that. Cant lie he hyped me up first time I heard that.