LMB Quote Game

[SPetty]

Damn, I replied, but my post was lost in some technical bug, it seems. The hint really gives it away : it's Miles to Auson in The Warrior's Apprentice, as he is about to board a pelian ship full of bombs set to explode (the explosion being the "blah-blah" event). They're gonna stop the explosion a full three seconds before too late ^^.

Looks right to me (though I'd have to go to the book to verify that it's Auson). I wonder if Voralfred got the e-Arc of Cryoburn, and hasn't noticed that someone answered the quote....

[voralfred]

No, no, it is just that my access to the Web is still haphazard .
This is indeed the correct answer so Caroline gets one and a half sherlock, and the next quote.
Though Suzette hints that she knew the answer.. and Caroline wrote she had already answered earlier so maybe Suzette had seen that first answer and this is why she did not answer? Anyway as it stands, the one and a half and the next go to Caroline.

[Caroline Tredez]

Voralfred may not have been absorbed by Cryoburn, but I certainly was So good.

Hmpf. So, next quote, not too hard :

" [...] No man could wish to live on like that."

Book, speaker, listener ?

[SPetty]

I'm pretty sure it's Aral in Shards of Honor speaking to Cordelia about the condition of Ensign DuBauer (this is off the top of my head, so I may have the spelling wrong) who was incapacitated, but not killed, by a nerve disruptor.

Unless, of course, the sentiment is elsewhere, too.

[Caroline Tredez]

Correct on all accounts ! Your turn, SPetty

[SPetty]

At least the search for Voralfred's last quote got me something (that's when I ran across it).

Anyway, next quote:

Is that not enough to qualify me?

Note that it's a thought, not spoken out loud. (I wish the quote boxes would get rid of the opening quotation in the left corner. I get distracted by misused punctuation.)

Book?
Who is thinking this?
Enough to qualify to do what?

[SPetty]

It seems an expansion is in order:

I am an orphan now, though.Is that not enough to qualify me?

It's still a thought, not spoken out loud, of course.

Book?
Who is thinking this?
Enough to qualify to do what?

[JKCade]

Man, NONE of that rings ANY kind of bells!

James

[Caroline Tredez]

I think I have it, but I'm not sure I have the right to answer yet, so I'll let 2 days pass with the hint to give everyone a chance (and to check if I'm right ^^)

[SPetty]

I am an orphan now, though.Is that not enough to qualify me?

It's still a thought, not spoken out loud, of course.
Further hint: The quote is fairly close to the beginning of the book.

Book?
Who is thinking this?
Enough to qualify to do what?

[E Pericoloso Sporgersi]

I still have no idea where to go look for it.

At first I thought of making a list of all possible confirmed orphans (confirmed by Lois' text or logically deduced, that is).

Of course Gregor, Aral and Duv are orphaned after their parents' death.
Drou and Helena are not an orphans, but Kou, Alys, Simon and Bothari probably are.
Elli Quinn, though she has relatives, is probably an orphan, because she doesn't go visit any parents in Ethan of Athos.
But in the case of Rowan Durona it is vague. One may assume that the parents of her progenitor have passed away, leaving her a clone with lots of siblings but technically orphaned. But it is not certain.

I'm afraid someone (Caroline?) will have the answer long before I complete such a list.

Of course what I understand to be the definition of orphan may be wrong.

Come on, Caroline, shoot! Give us "le coup de grâce" ...

[SPetty]

Just so you know, none on your orphan list so far is the right orphan.

The person has recently become an orphan in the book, though we don't see the funeral.

[E Pericoloso Sporgersi]

Just so you know, none on your orphan list so far is the right orphan.

Yes, yes. No need to twist the dagger ...

[JKCade]

GOT IT!!!!

I am an orphan now, though. Is that not enough to qualify me?

Book? Paladin of Souls
Who is thinking this? Ista, two weeks after the death of her mother.
Enough to qualify to do what? She is considering the fact that she has had a "new thought" and that she desires the road, much like "The poor orphan boy (who) packed his sack and started off down the road to seek his heart's hope...".

It was the, "recently become an orphan in the book, though we don't see the funeral." that got it for me. I kept wondering who in the Miles' universe had a recent funeral: Empress Lisbet of Cetaganda? We WENT to her funeral! Then I thought, wait a second, didn't Ista's mother,,,,.

Good job!

James

[SPetty]

Correct! I wasn't too sure about dropping that particular hint, but I didn't want it to go cold. I'm glad it was a challenge! There were a few similar style quotes in Paladin of Souls (from my recent re-read) that I may use later, just because they're interesting, and not ones I remembered.

You're up!

[JKCade]

"Xxxx yyyy zzzzz?" she said, appalled. "Eew!"

X, Y, and Z are three different words that make up a complete sentence, or question in this case.


Book?
Who is appalled?
What is her question?

James

[JKCade]

A little more.

"Xxxx yyyy zzzzz?" she said, appalled. "Eew!"
"Not often. Just in the worst of summer or the worst of wointer."


X, Y, and Z are three different words that make up a complete sentence, or question in this case.


Book?
Who is appalled?
What is her question?

James

[SPetty]

Ooh, I'd guessed wrong then. I was thinking it was the Cetagandan lady who was bothered that Ivan was a body birth in Cetaganda. But now that I think about it, she was too Cetagandan to say, "Eew," and she said something about Yenaro being crude. I think. Interesting quote!

[JKCade]

Hey, that almost WOULD work there, LOL!

[E Pericoloso Sporgersi]

"Xxxx yyyy zzzzz?" she said, appalled. "Eew!"

I was thinking of Ekaterin when she sees the Cetagandan scalps kept in the Vorkosigan House attic.
But I'm wrong.

[Caroline Tredez]

Tsk, you're really too "Miles-oriented" ^^ My guess would be Fawn to Dag (in the second book of TSK, Legacy) after she gave him the socks she has knitted. I think the question is "Your feet bleed ?"

[JKCade]

Correct! Congratulations! Your up!

James

[SPetty]

I do have to ask, how recently have you read it Caroline? I didn't particularly remember it, though the expansion of the quote lead me to re-read Legacy over the last few days. I wouldn't have been able to guess the question without reading it recently. Though if James had posted the question in full, it would have been easy to guess.

[Caroline Tredez]

@SPetty : a few months ago, I guess ? I'm not sure I've re-read it this year yet. But the whole TSK books are among my favorites, I'm a big fan of romance-oriented stuff, and Dag's one of my favorite characters. I was pretty sure the "Eew!" sounded Fawn-ish, but I needed the expansion to remember the circumstances.

Next quote :

"Everybody's an expert," sighed XXX. "Except me... [...]"

Who is XXX ?

[voralfred]

Haven't checked yet but if I remember correctly:
Miles in _Komarr_, at the meeting with all the people of Tien's workplace who discuss the effects of the broken mirror on terraforming