Favorite Moments So Far?

kenl511 wrote:Honor's capture of [i]Vaubon[i] in HAE. "I don't know what you're doing or why, but thank you. I feel bad about demanding your surrender now."

roseandheather wrote:

kzt wrote:"Good-bye, Citizen Chairman."

The second-greatest moment in the series for me, bar none. I'm pretty sure I screamed aloud.

(The greatest, of course, is the following:

"'I apologize for waking you up in the middle of the night, Your Majesty,' President Eloise Pritchart said calmly, 'but I think we need to talk.'"

....needless to say, at that moment, I did scream aloud. )

Daryl wrote:Couldn't imagine anyone on here being interested in anything to do with Eloise Pritchart?

"It occurs to me that if _House of Lies_ includes a story then Eloise Pritchart would be a possible protagonist with much of it set before her first appearance in _Honor Among Enemies_."

“Good points, all.” Michael leaned forward slightly, his expression more intent. “My turn now. We’ll skip the dramatic build-up and go straight to big one. Namely, Countess Calvingdell and First Lord Cazenestro want to give those corvettes away.”
Edward felt his jaw drop. “They what?”
“No, you heard correctly,” Michael said......
.........“They want to just give them to Breakwater?”
“So they’ve told me,” Michael said. “And before you start wondering about their sanity, understand that no one’s making a spur-of-the-moment decision here. Breakwater may have thought he was blindsiding us with this proposal, but there’ve been hints coming out of the Exchequer’s office for a couple of weeks now. Calvingdell and Cazenestro have had plenty of time to think this through.”
“All right,” Edward said slowly. “But if everyone’s agreed, why are we fighting about it? If Calvingdell and Cazenestro want to give him the corvettes, why did we even have this meeting?”
“Because it’s never a bad idea to let Breakwater think he’s won a battle,” Michael said; a grim twinkle in his eye. “It’s an even better idea to make him think he owes the Navy a favour that can be called in somewhere down the line.”

Hutch wrote:Besides the dozens already mentioned, my additions can be summed up with one quote each:

1. "We're home, System Command," she said. "It took us a while, but we're home."



2. And then there was no more room for thought. Not coherent ones, anyway. She was fifty-four T-years old, and that didn't matter at all as she stepped away from Benjamin Mayhew, holding out her arm to her mother through her blinding haze of tears.

"Momma?" she half-whispered, her soprano hoarse, and she tasted salt on her lips as her parents came towards her. "Daddy? I—"



3. Sneer and be damned!


4. “Why is it that people like you always think you’re more ruthless than people like me?”

5. "There will be," Terekhov said, with the certitude of God's own prophet. "And when it arrives, my people will be alive to see it."