Honorverse favorite one-liners

roseandheather wrote:

JeffEngel wrote:... It occurs to me that you need to get the two of them behind shipping your various not-yet-happy-couples. You know, in their spare time.

What makes you think they haven't already? They sent Sonja off to Bolthole and Shannon, didn't they?

Ya, I'm still going to put that one down to winning the silly war against the largest human polity ever and the centuries- and space-spanning conspiracy.

Besides, Sonja's not Shannon's type. Maybe now that they're representing friendly states and no longer in the same chain of command, she can get together with Warner.

roseandheather wrote:

JeffEngel wrote:... It occurs to me that you need to get the two of them behind shipping your various not-yet-happy-couples. You know, in their spare time.

What makes you think they haven't already? They sent Sonja off to Bolthole and Shannon, didn't they?

JeffEngel wrote:Ya, I'm still going to put that one down to winning the silly war against the largest human polity ever and the centuries- and space-spanning conspiracy.

Besides, Sonja's not Shannon's type. Maybe now that they're representing friendly states and no longer in the same chain of command, she can get together with Warner.

On the other hand, common-alities attract common-allies.

They both like playing with their Cogswell cogs, Spacely sprockets and ship's spanners. Love for each other's work may lead down a road to love for each other. Besides, if human nature hangs out with each other long enough, you're bound to rub each other the right or wrong way. Either creates a spark.

"....I'd be lying if I said a nasty little part of me doesn't take a certain satisfaction in seeing the almighty Solarian League flat on its face in the mud while somebody tapdances on its spine."

Eloise Pritchart, Mission of Honor

You and me both, Eloise. You and me both.

You see why she's the love of my life?

Honor Among Enemies

She saw Aubrey Wanderman and Rafe Cardones bent over a Tracking yeoman, hands flashing as they slapped emergency seals onto her skinsuit, and her eyes flinched away from the mangled ruin which had once been Carolyn Wolcott and Kendrick O'Halley and Eddy Howard's drifting corpse.

Ever wonder what demons are in Honor's nightmares ?...

cthia wrote:Honor Among Enemies

She saw Aubrey Wanderman and Rafe Cardones bent over a Tracking yeoman, hands flashing as they slapped emergency seals onto her skinsuit, and her eyes flinched away from the mangled ruin which had once been Carolyn Wolcott and Kendrick O'Halley and Eddy Howard's drifting corpse.

Ever wonder what demons are in Honor's nightmares ?...

Nope.

Though I am a functioning empath and do commiserate with our favorite fictional admiral because she has to carry them, I distinctly do NOT wish to wonder about nor understand those demons. Not a single one.

cthia wrote:Honor Among Enemies

She saw Aubrey Wanderman and Rafe Cardones bent over a Tracking yeoman, hands flashing as they slapped emergency seals onto her skinsuit, and her eyes flinched away from the mangled ruin which had once been Carolyn Wolcott and Kendrick O'Halley and Eddy Howard's drifting corpse.

Ever wonder what demons are in Honor's nightmares ?...

SharkHunter wrote:Nope.

Though I am a functioning empath and do commiserate with our favorite fictional admiral because she has to carry them, I distinctly do NOT wish to wonder about nor understand those demons. Not a single one.

Consider poor David, who effectively does have to wonder about and understand those demons.

cthia wrote:Honor Among Enemies

She saw Aubrey Wanderman and Rafe Cardones bent over a Tracking yeoman, hands flashing as they slapped emergency seals onto her skinsuit, and her eyes flinched away from the mangled ruin which had once been Carolyn Wolcott and Kendrick O'Halley and Eddy Howard's drifting corpse.

Ever wonder what demons are in Honor's nightmares ?...

The Salamander leaves a lot of ghosts behind: most of the crews of the CL and CA Fearless; the crew of HMS Madrigal, ambushed and overwhelmed in a system she'd departed for reasons she can't quite accept in retrospect; more casualties out of HMS Nike and her brief de facto flag at Hancock Station; one man, just one, but that was Paul Tankersley, in the aftermath of Hancock; the first wall of battle of the GSN at Fourth Yeltsin, and the children - children! - murdered to smear her reputation in roles as Steadholder and entrepreneur she never wanted; the crew of HMS Wayfarer in Selker Rift; HMS Prince Adrian and too many old friends, savaged both in honest battle and under StateSec brutality; the people she couldn't save when she had to choose to save her monarchs in Yeltsin; the millions dead in the Second War she couldn't prevent or end any sooner; Andrew Lafollett, who she couldn't even get out of the line of fire in the end, not consistent with his sense of duty and love which put and kept him there in the first place; the millions she had to kill at Second Manticore. And who knows how many more who'll be dead under her command or at her orders before duty finally lets her stop killing.

It's not fair for her to blame herself for any of them, but she's got a generous sense of responsibility and it sponges up all the blood in the neighborhood.

cthia wrote:Honor Among Enemies

She saw Aubrey Wanderman and Rafe Cardones bent over a Tracking yeoman, hands flashing as they slapped emergency seals onto her skinsuit, and her eyes flinched away from the mangled ruin which had once been Carolyn Wolcott and Kendrick O'Halley and Eddy Howard's drifting corpse.

Ever wonder what demons are in Honor's nightmares ?...

JeffEngel wrote:
The Salamander leaves a lot of ghosts behind: most of the crews of the CL and CA Fearless; the crew of HMS Madrigal, ambushed and overwhelmed in a system she'd departed for reasons she can't quite accept in retrospect; more casualties out of HMS Nike and her brief de facto flag at Hancock Station; one man, just one, but that was Paul Tankersley, in the aftermath of Hancock; the first wall of battle of the GSN at Fourth Yeltsin, and the children - children! - murdered to smear her reputation in roles as Steadholder and entrepreneur she never wanted; the crew of HMS Wayfarer in Selker Rift; HMS Prince Adrian and too many old friends, savaged both in honest battle and under StateSec brutality; the people she couldn't save when she had to choose to save her monarchs in Yeltsin; the millions dead in the Second War she couldn't prevent or end any sooner; Andrew Lafollett, who she couldn't even get out of the line of fire in the end, not consistent with his sense of duty and love which put and kept him there in the first place; the millions she had to kill at Second Manticore. And who knows how many more who'll be dead under her command or at her orders before duty finally lets her stop killing.

It's not fair for her to blame herself for any of them, but she's got a generous sense of responsibility and it sponges up all the blood in the neighborhood.

Darn Jeff! Since you've produced a compendium of her source of demons, I'm shocked! The poor girl is suffering chronic nightmares for certain, because of the type person she is. She remembers every single life lost. There was a passage which states that Mac lived with her constant demon-nightmares as well. I wonder if they have at least subsided.

And let's not forget the Reverend Julius Hanks, who was an innocent bystander mistakenly absorbing violence meant for her.

cthia wrote:snip
And let's not forget the Reverend Julius Hanks, who was an innocent bystander mistakenly absorbing violence meant for her.

Julius Hanks did not mistakenly absorb violence meant for her. He deliberately sacrificed himself to save Honor, and I, for one, prefer not to trivialize that sacrifice by calling him an innocent bystander mistakenly absorbing violence meant for her.

fallsfromtrees wrote:

cthia wrote:snip
And let's not forget the Reverend Julius Hanks, who was an innocent bystander mistakenly absorbing violence meant for her.

Julius Hanks did not mistakenly absorb violence meant for her. He deliberately sacrificed himself to save Honor, and I, for one, prefer not to trivialize that sacrifice by calling him an innocent bystander mistakenly absorbing violence meant for her.

I am hereby chastised.

I'm quoting the assholes responsible, who opined that Hank's death was a mistake.