Honorverse favorite one-liners

cthia wrote: Body chills. Such a pointed poignant post pitted with prickly tears.
You're such an oxymoronic considerate-miscreant.
Once again, thanks Hutch. Memories are the key to our immortality.

Now where are my tissue?

Hutch wrote:

cthia wrote: Body chills. Such a pointed poignant post pitted with prickly tears.
You're such an oxymoronic considerate-miscreant.
Once again, thanks Hutch. Memories are the key to our immortality.

Now where are my tissue?

Now, if you want a REAL challenge, where did I borrow the line "there may even be tears" from? (Hint-not the Honorverse).

Thunder Child Actual wrote:Now, if you want a REAL challenge, where did I borrow the line "there may even be tears" from? (Hint-not the Honorverse).

The movie Serenity. Mal says it to Simon in regards to the possibility of something happening to River.

On the other hand, if Lacoön Two was going according to plan and no one else had managed to jump the gun, he was about to become the first naval commander in history to seize a Solarian wormhole terminus by force.
And isn’t that going to make the Sollies happy? he thought dryly.

cthia wrote:

Thunder Child Actual wrote:Now, if you want a REAL challenge, where did I borrow the line "there may even be tears" from? (Hint-not the Honorverse).

The movie Serenity. Mal says it to Simon in regards to the possibility of something happening to River.

Spoiler Alert!
But thanks. I love resident tac-witches!

Thunder Child Actual wrote:
Spoiler Alert Really? The movie came out 8 and a half years ago. As Nathan Fillion loosely says "If it happened last season its not a spoiler. You are just behind the times." How long do you think something should not be discussed because of possible spoliers?

If you have not seen Serenity do an internet search for a Browncoat Group in your area that is planning on renting out a theater for a showing of the movie in late June. This has been going on in a lot of locations for the last few years. The fan costume contest was really good the three times that I went. I'd say my favorite was a Dinosaur dressed up as Wash who was playing with some Firefly Actions figures.

Instead, he’d moved transited from the Manticoran Junction to Beowulf, then crossed sixty-three light-years from Beowulf to the Roulette System, then transited the Roulette-Limbo hyper bridge and crossed another forty-nine light-years of hyperspace from Limbo to Agueda.
Spreading sunshine and light the entire way, he reflected. Amazing how unpopular we are.

Commander Bagwell—" Paxton nodded to the operations officer "—has been better briefed on the details than I have, but my understanding is that the Manties—"
He broke off, and his face darkened with what Honor guessed was a most unusual blush. She raised a hand to hide her smile, but Nimitz was less restrained. His soft bleek of amusement sounded clearly in the silence, and Paxton turned even darker.
"Sorry, My Lady. I meant to say 'the Manticorans.' "
"No, Commander, you meant to say the Manties." Honor lowered her hand and let him see her smile. "I have heard the term before, you know, and as long as you don't add any, ah, pejorative adjectives, I won't hold it against you."
"I—" Paxton paused, then grinned suddenly and raised both hands in surrender. "Mercy, My Lady. I yield."

For reasons that made no sense in ideological terms- in the past, if anything, they'd tended in the direction of being Havenite apologists- the Progressives where now taking a stance of sharp opposition to the rapprochement between Manticore and Haven.
Why? nobody outside the Progressives' own leadership really knew, but theories abounded.
One school of thought believed that the PP was on the Mesan Alignment's payroll. Anton thought that was unlikely, although he didn't rule it out completely. He leaned more toward the second school of thought, which was that-
The Progressives were a pack of fumble-witted loons whose incompetence at politics seemed to have no bottom.

Cathy almost sprang out of her seat in excitement. "Yes! Go for it, Mack! Gut the fucking asshole!"
Cathy proceeded to issue several more sentences which, though grammatically impeccable, transgressed the bounds of propriety. Pretty much the way piranhas transgress the bounds of dining etiquette.

He considered and then discarded the idea of actually taking control of Lower Radomsko. That was certainly possible. Victor couldn't have done it on his own. But with Thandi available, it was by no means out of the question. Still, even with her, the project would take too much time.

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roseandheather wrote:
They were so flawless together and I love them together so much and I need them to reunite so badly and we won't discuss my Honor/Estelle fantasies....

I thought Estelle was supposed to get with Khumalo, rose? Now I'm confused...