Quotes from Greg Bear

There is no possibility that the Killers, if they still exist around Leviathan, have knowledge of humans," the mom continued

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.

The Benefactors could not have known our character before you sent your ships into the Earth's system…

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.

They start again as children—all together. It is what the Composer was designed to prevent.

But love and loyalty could not be earned by indebtedness.

Can the Flood choose to infect, or not to infect?

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.

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.

He had performed this ritual before, getting into trouble and then coming to his mother, uneasy and uncertain, not sure precisely what sort of trouble he was in. With uncanny regularity, she had seemed to jump onto a higher plane of reasoning and identify his problems, laying them out for him so they became unavoidable. This was not a service that made him love her any more, but it did make her invaluable to him.

He held her hand and shook his head. They're inside, part of us by now. They are us. Where can we escape?

What's a "god"?' Khren asked. Nico, Shewel, and Denbord walked on Tiadba's left, Khren and Macht on her right. Perf, as always, straggled behind with Frinna and Herza. Nobody answered. 'Just thought a Tall One might know,' Khren murmured. Tiadba

If a truth is dangerous, he said, then perhaps it is not true enough.   The

They were burying the past, or as much of it as they could part with.

Occupation of vast reaches of space means nothing. It is control of population centers and essential resources that determines victory or defeat.

You fucking hope we do," John growled. "You first." Jerry pointed. "Love you, too." "Go!" They entered the tunnel.

Split atoms if you wish, but splitting an infinitive--and getting away with it--is far nobler. Lance boils if you wish, but pricking pretensions is often cleaner and always more fun." "Then why are Mom and

But ingenuity is often indistinguishable from foolish play, and foolish play is one of those traits I find most endearing about humanity.

She's forty-something with a Persian-cat face and looks like a former beauty queen who's spent too many years under the Texas sun—pretty in a rough fashion but hard.

Dr. Bernard, please." "Dr. Bernard?" She looked puzzled. "We don't have—" "Dr. Milligan?" Edward turned to see Bernard entering the automatic doors. "Thank you, Janet," he said to the receptionist.

This is solute, which will cause every animal killed by Halo action to instantly decay into component molecules. This will avert an ecological miasma. But it could also be construed as a way to hide a tremendous crime from later investigators.

Ropes of destiny we cannot see rig this ship

The asteroids interfere with the collapsing function of each emerging ship; in effect, either forcing them to abandon the transit, or to combine asteroid mass with the ship's.

He looked at his frayed sports coat and his worn-out running shoes, decided he was easily ten years behind the times and thousands of dollars short in refurbishing his wardrobe, and sighed as he entered the elevator.