I’ve only seen fragments from my childhood. But what I saw, what I felt, was goodness. I saw a capacity for hope. Love. There is something within us. Something special in humans. Something sacred. Something worth protecting.[to Makee]
You heard a message. This will happen again. You’ll think about it every day. Their faces pop up when you least expect. Doesn’t get better. Just gets further away.[to Talia]
Where does the Spartan end, Kai? And where do you begin?[to Kai]
When the battle ends, they don’t talk about the ones who don’t come home. They just call it a victory.[to Talia]
When I touch the artifact, I don’t just see those memories. I feel them.
We’re the last of our kind. Spartans never die. But they do. Don’t they?[Kai]Not today.[Master Chief]
We lose the artifact, we lose the war. It’s that simple. No matter what they’ve done to us, we’re all we have now.
Usually when people are hurt in combat, it’s because they’re poorly trained or poorly led.[to Briggs]
The moment a person becomes a Spartan, their life in your world ends. They live in mine. There are no burials. There’s no funerals. They’ve already said goodbye.[to Kwan]
John, you can’t save them.[Margaret Parangosky]You have no idea what I can do.[Master Chief]
It all costs something. Even when you can’t see it. That’s what you people never understand. Somebody always pays.[to Ackerson]
If you want me dead, you’ll need to aim up here.[to Kwan, after taking off his helmet]
