Quotable moments in Andromeda

I totally get where you're coming from. Only some of my Ryders are really into the honor thing. Or into Cora...

Drack: Who taught you to shoot harper your stance is all over the place.

Cora: It's a kherita stance, classic for asari commandos but it's not for everyone. A krogan for example would look like a whale trying to dance ballet.

Drack: Better than looking like a salarian tied to a ceiling fan.

Ryder: C'mon, let's get you back in the stasis pod.
Ruth: Finding a cure (for me) might take centuries. Charlie will be dead by then.
Ryder: We'll stuff Charlie in a pod, too. It'll be fine!

I'm sad the stoner quest is bugged (or disabled) because we can't get this:

Ryder: Uhh, just curious. I'm gonna try a leaf.
SAM: Ingesting an entire leaf could have immediate and unpredictable neural effects on the row row row your boat gently down the stream merrily merrily merrily merrily life is but a dream about a modern major general I've information vegetable animal and mineral I'm very well acquainted too with matters mathematical I understand equations both the simple and quadratical neural effects on the brain's sensory and cognitive centers. Ryder, are you all right?
Ryder: Wha-? Um. Sure. I'm... great. Let's, um, never speak of this again. Ever.
SAM: Speak of what? A general keeps his secrets.

Mods are the number one reason I play on PC over console.  But you already knew that because of romance options. 

Ryder: Liam! Hold me!!
Liam: 'Laughing'
Vetra: I'M SAD I CAN'T PUNCH BOTH OF YOU!!!!!

(Quick note: Sarissa's incompetence is the reason so many Asari died. If she had protected her pathfinder, AS WAS HER JOB, the Leusinia would have been the first Ark to the Nexus. Plus she gets no sympathy from me for hiding her true role in Ashara's death. You fucked up, you need to face the consequences.)

Ryder: ...You've not seen many horror vids, have you?
Liam: Ten credits says she ends up in a pit of spikes.

Ryder: You know, Vorn's got a point.
Drack: Quads, not you too!

Drack: I bet I could drink it.
Lexi: NO Drack, NO.

And Suvi still performed the lick test on a rock...

Sarissa's competence is the only reason any of the Asari made it.  Without the routes to navigate the scourge they would have been dead in the water from the initial Kett attack. She made the right choice, the matriarch was screwing it up and risking the entire ark. She did what a pathfinder should do, path-find to protect the many.  She proved with her actions that she should have been the pathfinder from the get go instead of matriarch only thinks of herself.

They used the data module to escape through the scourge, as in they never would have got to the point where they could later be found and rescued by ryder without it.  They were stopped and caught, there was no we just go straight to the Nexus.  They needed time for a FTL burn long enough to lose them, per the captain. If they could just do that under fire they would have been able to whether Sarissa stole the data module or not.  Without the ability to do that they needed an escape route to get away at all, and sarissa gave it to them. Yes the decimation squad was sent after them and eventually caught them but they never would have made it that far if it weren't for Sarissa.  Ishara begged for help valuing her life over the lives of 20 thousand civilians. That is pretty much pure incompetence and failure IMO. Sarissa valued the civilians over her honor and the life of Ishara, in other words pathfinder exemplary.

From the wikia about Ark Leusinia "Stolen kett navigational data allowed the ark to flee through the Scourge while evacuating as many civilians as possible, but constant harrying eventually forced the ark to go into hiding until rescue arrived."

Side note, watched some videos of this to refresh my memory and they are all from like a year and many patches ago.  And damn I forgot the crazy eyes animation thing.  While animation doesn't wreck a game for me as I enjoyed the game day one, it does make a difference.

I'm not convinced the data were all that useful since Sarissa tells Ryder:  "Get power for the drive core, my SAM and I will finish deciphering the kett data."  I don't think she even really knew what it was she was stealing at first since, at that point, she would not have had Ishara's SAM to start deciphering it.  In addition, the captain says:  Sarissa's theft has made things problematic."  If the captain had been already using the data for navigation, I would have thought she would have acknowledged that.

It's probably buried in some of the datapads on the ship.  I still think it's another one of those cases where Bioware has left it all a little vague so that the player can justify going either way with the decision.  I also don't think Sarissa is all about putting lives ahead of her honor, because she's also going to great lengths to protect her honor by continuing to hide the truth from her captain.  It's also about military discipline and duty.  It wasn't her call to make whether or not to steal the data.  It was Ishara's, her superior officer.  We'll actually never get the chance to know for sure whether Ishara was making the better call because Sarissa basically broke rank and took the matter into her own hands.  If you think about it, the Nilken (the Turian who had been charged with murder) did exactly the same thing.  Should he have been promoted instead of arrested?

I'm not sure if the following are verbatim, but:

Ryder: I'll find it. *deadpan* My job description is only one word. (Tom's delivery here was great.)

In the gravity well on Meridian:
Liam: How far in can we go before we're going out?
Ryder: *deadpan* Half-way.
Liam: Ok, I asked for that.

Lexi: How do you do it? Be both you and the Pathfinder?
Ryder: You really want to know?
Lexi: Yeah.
Ryder: I'm just naturally awesome.
Lexi: GET OUT.