LMB Quote Game

[voralfred]

Oh.. I understand.
I just felt bad about depriving Suzette of one of her good answers when I did not need it...
I hope she comes back soon and guesses correctly among the only two choices left...

[SPetty]

Don't worry about it, voralfred. The kids are on summer vacation, and taking all the computer time. Feel free to guess all you'd like.

So there's only two unknowns left? I'll guess R is 11 (based on all the Komarran politics, though there's a lot of that in ACC too), and C for 15. If I'm wrong, then someone else can flip them, and the block quotes are over.

[E Pericoloso Sporgersi]

Don't worry about it, voralfred. The kids are on summer vacation, and taking all the computer time. Feel free to guess all you'd like.

So there's only two unknowns left? I'll guess R is 11 (based on all the Komarran politics, though there's a lot of that in ACC too), and C for 15. If I'm wrong, then someone else can flip them, and the block quotes are over.

Flip!

(Hm ... the most succinct gamble I ever made. Also the easiest. Though I may still be wrong. Hm ...)

[SPetty]

Yep, you're right. I just found the biology isn't destiny quote in ACC (between Miles and Rene Vorbretton).

I can't seem to pick the fastest line at the grocery store, either. Ah well.

[Caroline Tredez]

Seems everything was found. Here I post a recap :

The trouble with the position, he found, was that in whatever direction you looked there fell away a glassy, uncontrollable slide down to a strange future you would then have to live in.
→ Ethan in Chapter 10, Ethan of Athos.

People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large.
→ Cordelia in Chapter 13, Mirror Dance

A rose by any other name.
→ Miles to Eli in Chapter 1, Brothers in Arms

The wounded want power, nothing else; they think it will keep them from being hurt again.
→ Miles thinking about Tris, The Borders of Infinity

Let the challenge emerge, don’t rush to meet what you cannot yet see.
→ Miles's thought in Labyrinth

I am Fortune’s fool.
→ Miles before Haut Rian, Chapter 5, Cetaganda

I did not fully understand the situation here.
→ A Felician official to Miles, Chapter 14, The Warrior’s Apprentice

I knew there’d be a jar turn up in this story somewhere.
→ Miles to Harra, The Mountains of Mourning

And have you stopped beating your wife ?
→ Miles about fallacies and Tung, Chapter 14, The Vor Game

That was a very, uh, knightly deed.
→ Cordelia to Bothari, Chapter 7, Shards of Honor

She knew perfectly well what he meant, but she wanted to see him run to his limit. All the way, damn you; spit it all out.
→ Cordelia to Piotr, Chapter 15, Barrayar

Just because we’re adults doesn’t automatically mean we can save you…
→ Leo, Chapter 12, Falling Free

Now he will attempt to make me feel guilty. All my fault.
→ Ekaterin thinking about her spouse, Chapter 9, Komarr

Not that every man doesn’t have his price.
→ Miles to the consul, Chapter 8, Cryoburn

Why didn’t anybody stop us ? Why aren’t there more regulations about this sort of things ?
→ Miles, Epilogue of Diplomatic Immunity

All it needed was window slits and a moat. And a few bats and raven, for decoration.
→ About Vorkosigan House, Chapter 4, Memory

Human being are so fragile.
→ Taura in Winterfair Gifts

Biology isn’t destiny ?
Not anymore, it’s not.
→ Miles to Vorbretten, Chapter 6, A Civil Campaign

Sherlocks hard to give, but let's say 1/2 to sarsaparilla, 1/2 for SPetty, and 2 for voralfred (counting the bonus I owed him), along with the next quote.

[voralfred]

Next quote for me? I did not get the last ones... EPS did, he deserves at least 1/2 sherlock, doesn't he?
But I did get 12 out of 18, I believe..

Ok, so let's see:

"Well, it would have been nice if any of that had been on purpose, instead of by accident,"

Book?
Speaker?
Who just listed the "that" of which all was on accident rather than purpose?

Bonus: list more than half of "that" (if you do it by memory rather than by quoting, I'll decide whether each proposal is close enough to each item)

[voralfred]

Next quote for me? I did not get the last ones... EPS did, he deserves at least 1/2 sherlock, doesn't he?
But I did get 12 out of 18, I believe..

Ok, so let's see:

"Well, it would have been nice if any of that had been on purpose, instead of by accident,"

Book?
Speaker?
Who just listed the "that" of which all was by accident rather than on purpose?

Bonus: list more than half of "that" (if you do it by memory rather than by quoting, I'll decide whether each proposal is close enough to each item)

[voralfred]

Looks like a little hint is needed. Alas, it makes the bonus moot!!!!

We uncovered a traitor, plugged a security leak, foiled a kidnapping, and broke up a major plot against the XXX YYY. And we got paid. What more do you want for one week?"
"Well, it would have been nice if any of that had been on purpose, instead of by accident,"

Book, first and second speaker.

XXX in an adjective, YYY a noun but they don't bring a bonus, either..

[voralfred]

OK, I call it

Anyone can post a new question, on a first come, first serve basis.
As soon as a new quote is posted, mine loses the power of giving the right to post the following one.
However, it would still bring a full sherlock, indefinitely, to anyone who answers it. And as long as a new question is not yet posted, if someone answers it, (s)he gets the new quote, not anyone else.

[Caroline Tredez]

I'd say end of Brother in Arms, Quinn to Miles ?

[voralfred]

I'd say end of Brother in Arms, Quinn to Miles ?

Got it by the skin of your teeth!!!
Yes, this is correct. So I rescind the status. You, and only you, are entitled to post a new quote!
The full is a matter of course, anyway.

[Caroline Tredez]

Ok, so here's the quote :

I believe I forgot to ask, come to think on it.

Who's talking, and what did they forgot asking ?

[E Pericoloso Sporgersi]

I believe I forgot to ask, come to think on it.

I never gamble. Except for peanuts, chips (the edible kind, crisps to the British) and in the LMB Quote Game.

So here goes:
In the epilogue of The Warrior's Apprentice, Miles replies this to Kostolitz, when the latter asks whether Miles has permission to carry his antique dagger with the Vorkosigan seal in the hilt.

[Caroline Tredez]

Hey, not a bad guess, but no (Miles in fact HAS permission, for once, in the event you recall). But you give me my hint : it is about permission. But permission to what ?

[sarsaparilla]

Ok, so here's the quote :

I believe I forgot to ask, come to think on it.

Who's talking, and what did they forgot asking ?

Liss is talking to Ista in Paladin of Souls. She never asked for permission to leave home and become a courier.

I'm going to be out of town and away from the internets for about a week, so in the interest of keeping things going, I bequeath my New Quote Privileges on the first person to post a new quote! (Assuming my answer is correct, that is.)

If no one takes me up on it, I'll post one when I get back.

[Caroline Tredez]

You're completely right, sarsaparilla I'll post your sherlock right away. Next quote up for whoever wants it !

[E Pericoloso Sporgersi]

...

I can't resist the opportunity.
This really is much too good to pass up.

Spoiler: show

Edit: video link corrected

Questions: Who does it remind us of, what place and in which book?

P.S. I wonder if these guys have just read that particular book.

[E Pericoloso Sporgersi]

...

Spoiler: show

Edit: video link corrected

Questions: Who does it remind us of, what place and in which book?

Oh, come on! The video itself is an unambiguous straightforward HINT.

Oh well, I'll give you a crumb:
After the fishing spree, several cats are collateral beneficiaries, but they're not Zap and her kittens.

[Ghost]

Miles and Captain Illyan use a "battery bomb" to catch fish in Memory.

[E Pericoloso Sporgersi]

Miles and Captain Illyan use a "battery bomb" to catch fish in Memory.

Good enough.
The next question is yours.

[Ghost]

New quote:

“Mongrels, to a man. Or to a lord, anyway.”

Speaker, listener, and book.

[SPetty]

Ijada to Ingrey in Hallowed Hunt (about the fact that the Weald descendants had mixed with Darthacans enough so that there were few if any of full Weald blood left).

I'd originally thought it was Horseriver to Ingrey, but decided to read the book through rather than looking for the quote. Probably a good thing, as it was closer to the beginning of the book than I would have looked.

[Ghost]

Correct, you're up.

[SPetty]

Ok, next quote:

"How come I wasn't invited?"

Speaker and book, please.

[SPetty]

Quote:

"How come I wasn't invited?"

Speaker and book, please.

Hint 1: The speaker has been used as a point of view character (in other words, scenes have been described from the speaker's point of view, including the quote scene).