Honorverse favorite one-liners

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Allison Harrington was not noted for moderation where her family was concerned, and Honor could just imagine the smiling, merciless "I told you so" daggers she would have planted—as publicly as possible—in at least a dozen prominent Manticoran political figures.

Only Allison and Alfred Harrington's mixed seed could have sprouted into a Salamander.

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"I think the Regent also has a little Steading business he needs to discuss with you while he has the opportunity," Brigham continued. And he probably wants to rip a few strips off various Manticoran politicos, too . . . at least vicariously, since he can't get at them physically, Honor thought resignedly.

I would have enjoyed watching that on HD.

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"I'm sure you want to check the car for possible assassins, Andrew," she told him with one of her slightly lopsided smiles.

I sorely miss the rapport of Honor and Andrew. They came to know each other well. I often thought LaFollet's love for Honor bordered love. I'm still not certain he wasn't simply good at hiding the fact that he'd fallen in love. I kept awaiting RFC's quill to confirm it. RFC probably had to kill Andrew off, because the chemistry present surely would have caused a spark.

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"I'm sure you want to check the car for possible assassins, Andrew," she told him with one of her slightly lopsided smiles.

I sorely miss the rapport of Honor and Andrew. They came to know each other well. I often thought LaFollet's love for Honor bordered love. I'm still not certain he wasn't simply good at hiding the fact that he'd fallen in love. I kept awaiting RFC's quill to confirm it. RFC probably had to kill Andrew off, because the chemistry present surely would have caused a spark.

Andrew would never have acted upon it. His armsman code of honor would never have permitted it.

fallsfromtrees wrote:

cthia wrote:I sorely miss the rapport of Honor and Andrew. They came to know each other well. I often thought LaFollet's love for Honor bordered love. I'm still not certain he wasn't simply good at hiding the fact that he'd fallen in love. I kept awaiting RFC's quill to confirm it. RFC probably had to kill Andrew off, because the chemistry present surely would have caused a spark.

Andrew would never have acted upon it. His armsman code of honor would never have permitted it.

Perhaps it's just the romantic in me, but I'd thought it had been made quietly but explicitly clear that Andrew had, in fact, fallen quite desperately in love with Honor.

That said, fallsfromtrees is right - even if she'd been interested, he never would have acted on his feelings.

fallsfromtrees wrote:

cthia wrote:
I sorely miss the rapport of Honor and Andrew. They came to know each other well. I often thought LaFollet's love for Honor bordered love. I'm still not certain he wasn't simply good at hiding the fact that he'd fallen in love. I kept awaiting RFC's quill to confirm it. RFC probably had to kill Andrew off, because the chemistry present surely would have caused a spark.

Andrew would never have acted upon it. His armsman code of honor would never have permitted it.

roseandheather wrote:Perhaps it's just the romantic in me, but I'd thought it had been made quietly but explicitly clear that Andrew had, in fact, fallen quite desperately in love with Honor.

That said, fallsfromtrees is right - even if she'd been interested, he never would have acted on his feelings.

I thought it was fairly obvious too Rose. And the two of you most probably are right that he never would have acted on it. You just don't mix business with pleasure.

His armsman code would have forbidden it. Even beyond that would have been his Grayson upbringing, and something about taking advantage of a woman weakened by circumstances, by the very one who swore to protect her. Tester's teachings superseded an armsman's code. Though both would conspire to prevent Andrew from taking advantage of it I agree. But it never stopped me from yelling "Kiss already!"

And Honor is so beautiful inside. Andrew was with her for so long and saw her handle everything life's SD's launched at her with aplomb. How can a man not fall in love with someone so beautiful inside?

"I love her for who she is on the inside," and "She's beautiful on the inside" happen to be two common cliches that just so happens to truly fit Honor.

She was so beautiful inside that her crews would gladly follow her to Hell and back. And back again. Or Hades, whichever is closer.

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Re Honor easing Benjamin's worry about causing her grief.

"Trust me, compared to what I've been putting up with on the other side of the line, any 'grief' any Graysons have been giving me is a pillow fight!"

Sad ... but true. Ironic how that did a one-eighty from the beginning of HoTQ.

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"I'm sure you want to check the car for possible assassins, Andrew," she told him with one of her slightly lopsided smiles.

I sorely miss the rapport of Honor and Andrew. They came to know each other well. I often thought LaFollet's love for Honor bordered love. I'm still not certain he wasn't simply good at hiding the fact that he'd fallen in love. I kept awaiting RFC's quill to confirm it. RFC probably had to kill Andrew off, because the chemistry present surely would have caused a spark.

I always thought RFC killed off Andrew and Miranda to save Honor the pain of watching them die of old age.


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GJS

George J. Smith wrote:

cthia wrote:I sorely miss the rapport of Honor and Andrew. They came to know each other well. I often thought LaFollet's love for Honor bordered love. I'm still not certain he wasn't simply good at hiding the fact that he'd fallen in love. I kept awaiting RFC's quill to confirm it. RFC probably had to kill Andrew off, because the chemistry present surely would have caused a spark.

I always thought RFC killed off Andrew and Miranda to save Honor the pain of watching them die of old age.


T&R
GJS

See, and I thought he killed Andrew off just to torture us....

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Benjamin's sentiment regarding Foraker's assignment to Bolthole.

"There's no possible way to confirm it, but if I were a secretary of war who had some sort of high-cost project in applied research and development going on somewhere and I had someone of Foraker's demonstrated abilities to put in charge of it, I know what I'd be doing with her."

I can think of a few things too - besides that.