Alan

“Despite all the death, there is beauty in the remains,” Johan said softly. “Even amid destruction so terrible. When Galen fell, others banded together to save whom they could. Battle ceased, enemies forgiven so all might work together in the rescue. I have always felt that is humanity’s greatest, and most often wasted, trait. Peel away the anger, hatred, and pride of men’s souls and you’ll find an innate desire to protect others. Such a shame it requires a terrible catastrophe to jostle this selflessness free.”
― David Dalglish, Shadowborn

“But the narrow confines of the passageway again made it that much easier to kill the parasitic life-forms, and five minutes later the human walked up a ramp on the other side of the metal door to find that the Monitor was there, humming to himself.
'Oh, hello! I'm a genius.'
'Right. And I'm a Vice Admiral”
― William C. Dietz, The Flood

“But then Rose pointed toward the woman’s feet. “You dropped your ear,” she said. And Astra—who’d been an empress, then a goddess, and whose dark sorcery now threatened to snuff out every soul in Grandual—looked down. Like an idiot.”
― Nicholas Eames, Bloody Rose

“He must be losing it to get so emotional over some damn pizza.”
― Kelly Gay, Halo: The Rubicon Protocol