Honorverse favorite one-liners

SWM wrote:

cthia wrote:I'll be bach......wait, what, huh, who said that?!

I'm not sure--must be playing haydn-seek.

cthia wrote:Changer of Worlds

"You," Makira said darkly, "are an evil person who will undoubtedly come to an unhappy end, and if there is any justice in the universe, I'll be there to see it happen."

Honor grinned, and Nimitz bleeked a lazy laugh from the table between them.

"You may laugh . . . for now," he told them both ominously, "but There Will Come a Day when you will remember this conversation and regret it bitterly." He raised his nose with an audible sniff, and Nimitz turned his head to look up at his person. Their eyes met in complete agreement, and then Nassios Makira's arms windmilled wildly as a gray blur of treecat bounded off the table and wrapped itself firmly around his neck. The midshipman began a muffled protest that turned suddenly into a most unmilitary—and high-pitched—sound as Nimitz's long, agile fingers found his armpits and tickled unmercifully. Chair and midshipman alike went over backwards with a high, wailing laugh, and Honor leaned back in her own chair and watched with folded arms as the appropriate penalty for his ominous threat was rigorously applied.

I have never actually known Honor to play in this manner. With Nimitz and a frisbee, yes. But this? How refreshing. She actually had a little fun, before she had to quickly grow up.

Whatever happened to Nassios Makira?

Amaroq wrote:

cthia wrote:
I've been wanting to find time to reread HAE, because, well because everything. But mostly because of Stacy Hauptman. I just loved Stacy. I also like the way Honor was approached to command the Q-Ship.

There's also a lot of important foreign or secondary characters who either get introduced or more fleshed out in that book: Warner Caslet, Admiral Giscard, Eloise Pritchart, Shannon Foraker, Chien-lu Anderman, Stacey and Klaus Hauptman...

Cauldron of Ghosts wrote:Damewood smiled. "Nothing fancy, Ganny. It'd be nice to have you pulling away from the station right as this new ship is arriving and cursing up a blul streak on an open frequency.

He paused, his eyebrows rising as if he'd been struck by a suddenn thought. "You do know how to curse, don't you?"

Cauldron of Ghosts wrote:Her reply put to rest any doubts he might have had -- or anyone this side of Betelgeuse, for that matter.

Amaroq wrote:

Hutch wrote:
I know he had to die so that Elizabeth could inherit the throne and become the beloved character that she is, but damn--the stories that weren't told because we lost Roger Michael Danton Maxwell Winton, King of the Star Kingdom of Manticore.

He was by all accounts (and what little we get to see of him) a pretty amazing monarch. Aside from the whole secret R & D project he set up and the naval buildup he initiated (that saved the SKM's butt) his insistence on beginning to train Elizabeth for the throne so early even though prolong should've guaranteed him a long rule was a stroke of genius.

Hutch wrote:I know he had to die so that Elizabeth could inherit the throne and become the beloved character that she is, but damn--the stories that weren't told because we lost Roger Michael Danton Maxwell Winton, King of the Star Kingdom of Manticore.

Amaroq wrote:He was by all accounts (and what little we get to see of him) a pretty amazing monarch. Aside from the whole secret R & D project he set up and the naval buildup he initiated (that saved the SKM's butt) his insistence on beginning to train Elizabeth for the throne so early even though prolong should've guaranteed him a long rule was a stroke of genius.

timmopussycat wrote:Elizabeth had more than a little to do with the early start to her training. See HoS.

SharkHunter wrote:Warning: do not read pg. 14 while eating breakfast:

Cauldron of Ghosts wrote:Damewood smiled. "Nothing fancy, Ganny. It'd be nice to have you pulling away from the station right as this new ship is arriving and cursing up a blul streak on an open frequency.

--little snip, saving the punch line--

He paused, his eyebrows rising as if he'd been struck by a suddenn thought. "You do know how to curse, don't you?"

*me, coughs whilst reading....*

Cauldron of Ghosts wrote:Her reply put to rest any doubts he might have had -- or anyone this side of Betelgeuse, for that matter.

*me, puts down book and goes to clean up messy shirt from milk and cereal splatter*

“Don’t. Say. Anything,” warned Yana. She glared down at her new bosom. Her very, very impressive new bosom.
“Mind you, it’s likely to be a short life,” she said. “I’m bound to topple over and kill myself the moment I get distracted.”
“It’s a status symbol in a number of Verge cultures,” Kham elaborated. “And the wealthier you are, the—ah—more voluptuous you are.”
Steph and Andrew studied Yana a bit longer.
“So what do we call you now?” Andrew asked. “Midas?”

SharkHunter wrote:Hopefully I "split snipped" this correctly...

Hutch wrote:I know he had to die so that Elizabeth could inherit the throne and become the beloved character that she is, but damn--the stories that weren't told because we lost Roger Michael Danton Maxwell Winton, King of the Star Kingdom of Manticore.

Amaroq wrote:He was by all accounts (and what little we get to see of him) a pretty amazing monarch. Aside from the whole secret R & D project he set up and the naval buildup he initiated (that saved the SKM's butt) his insistence on beginning to train Elizabeth for the throne so early even though prolong should've guaranteed him a long rule was a stroke of genius.

timmopussycat wrote:Elizabeth had more than a little to do with the early start to her training. See HoS.

For those who are wondering what those references are, King Roger' story is amazing: and told in David's book "House of Steel", the story is "I Will Build a House of Steel" [book abbrev: HoS]. We also learn about the source of enmity between White Haven and Hemphill, the Queen's mother, Caitrin Henke, earlier politicos, etc. Best read in a long while.

Zilwicki heaved his massive shoulders. For someone built along normal human rather than dwarf lord lines, that would have been a shrug.