Honorverse favorite one-liners

stewart wrote:

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When you register: Midshipman.
Your 10th post makes you an Ensign.
25: Lt. J. G.
50: Lieutenant
100: Commander
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200: Captain
300: Commodore
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500: Vice Admiral
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(2) Officers are not gainfully employed
(3) Many officers are suspected of being of questionable parentage.....

-- USN Retired Enlisted

Scathach wrote:I have been re-readign the books recently.
I missed the characters and it was good to realise that it doesn't matter how many times I read the books, some passages or one-liners still feel like the first time I read them.

"She felt... empty. Emptier than the wind or space itself, sucked clean by the silent undertow of entropy" FOD

I love this line. It kills me every time I read it, but it's just beatifully written.
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"Bushwah!"
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"C-c-c-clubs, My Lady?" The major gasped for breath, holding his aching ribs with both hands, and tears of mirth gleamed in his eyes. "Those... those aren't clubs, My Lady - they are baseball bats!" FIE

I love Andrew, deeply. And this scene it's just brilliant.
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"You want pretzels with your beer, Skipper?" FIE
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"There were debts no death could pay, and she was so tired of death."
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"Skipper, I've got the most beautiful sight in the goddamned universe out there!" Scotty half-shouted, swearing in her hearing for the first time in her memory. "It's gorgeous, Skipper" HAE

I always imagine Scotty jumping like a kid excited for presents on a Xmas morning.
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"Oh, stop moping, Mac! It's not like I'm abandoning you."
[...]I'm only to be gone for about eighteen hours."

I know this one it's not much of an interesting quote, but it hit me yersterday when I started IEH.
I realised "Drat, she'll be gone for two years. He'll think her dead." It should be one of those nice moments between Mac and his Captain but I just wanted to cry.
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"That was why he felt that dreadful flash of anger. Because however deeply his impotence shamed him, it was real. Because he longed to be worthy of their respect, and could not be." IEH

... just because I am not enough in love already with Thomas.
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"You just keep right on, Sir." Harkness told him confortably "And the next time you need to find your posterior, you can use your own flashlight." EOH
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"White Haven reached out, his fingers trembling, and touched her face on the com as gently as he might have touched a terrified bird, yet the terror was his, and he knew it."
"He was afraid to so much as breathe lest oxygen wake him and destroy this impossible dream, and he realised he was weeping only when his display shimmered." EOH
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"Merry Christmas, Wesley" AoV
This one is definitely in the top 20 of my favourite quotes.
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"Hamish Alexander stood on Benjamin the great's flag deck with his hands clasped behind him and tried very hard not to feel a sense of godlike power." AoV

I am sorry but everytime I read this passage I imagine him all dressed in black and The Imperial March playing in the background. And I laugh.
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"Live, or die, she and Giscard would fight to the last ditch together." AoV
*grabs her tissues* *sniff*
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"She was tired. Not physically, but with a soul-deep heart sickness that had driven her spirit to its knees, and she could no longer fight the inevitable." WoH
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"Scotty? You got Scotty for me?" Cardones' white teeth flashed in an immense grin "Dare I hope that you got me Harkness as well?" "Where one of them goes, the other is certain to turn up." Honor said dryly
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"We just can't do it, Eloise. I won't do it. Not after how much blood you and I shed to prove we are not the People's Republic." WoH
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"We are her personal life," Mattingly said flatly. "We are as much her family as her mother and father, as Faith and James. Except that we're the expendable part of her family... and everyone knows and accepts that. Except her." AAC
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"Don't make me kill any more, Madam President. Please." MoH

This gives me goosebumps. Every time. You can feel Thomas' anguish, his pain...
Thomas is one amazing character. (Yes, I have a soft spot for him)
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"He ran out of time, love" MoH Andrew's death is one of the many that I still haven't processed. Nope.
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"The Peeps won't get us, baby," he whispered. "We're safe now." He drew a ragged breath. "Mommy made it safe." SVW
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And now I need chocolate -tons of it - to compensate for all the angst.

roseandheather wrote:

Scathach wrote:I have been re-readign the books recently.
I missed the characters and it was good to realise that it doesn't matter how many times I read the books, some passages or one-liners still feel like the first time I read them.

<<SNIP>>
And now I need chocolate -tons of it - to compensate for all the angst.

Well, HELLO. I think you and I are going to get along JUST fine. For starters, you have excellent taste in favorite characters - any friend of Theisman's or Eloise's is a friend of mine!!

Now, shall we go find that chocolate?

Oh, and to lighten things up a bit....

"[Khumalo] rumbled like an irritated boar." TSoS

Something about that image just gets to me. The fact that I want to cuddle the cranky admiral probably doesn't say much for my sense of self-preservation, though....

cthia wrote:I wasn't aware that it is a book. Since you've recommended it, I shall. Thanks.

Pritchart agreed in a tone which diplomatically failed to notice the anger and pain which were seldom far from Honor’s surface these days.

“And, truth be told, there were frigates . . . and then there were frigates”

Yow wrote:I think I would love to have one it'd be akin to fishing with dynamite.

CoG

“And, truth be told, there were frigates . . . and then there were frigates”

Nat turners

MaxxQ any chance you've rendered these bad ass pop guns?

So, Andrew would have to do all of it, with whatever (none-too-expert) help Steph could give him. But she wasn’t worried about it. This was the same man, after all, who’d jury-rigged a starship’s hyper generator.

roseandheather wrote:
Well, HELLO. I think you and I are going to get along JUST fine. For starters, you have excellent taste in favorite characters - any friend of Theisman's or Eloise's is a friend of mine!!

Now, shall we go find that chocolate?

Oh, and to lighten things up a bit....

"[Khumalo] rumbled like an irritated boar." TSoS

Something about that image just gets to me. The fact that I want to cuddle the cranky admiral probably doesn't say much for my sense of self-preservation, though....