Firefly Quotes and Quotation
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Serenity
's : Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... "This Land."
Mal: I don't believe there is a power in the 'verse that can stop Kaylee from being cheerful.
- Wash: Sweetie, we're crooks. If everything were right, we'd be in .
- : We still gotta drop the goods.
- : crime and politics, little girl: the situation is always... fluid.
- Jayne: Ten percent of nothing is, let me do the here, nothing into nothing, carry the...
- Mal: Jayne, your mouth is talking. You might wanna look to that.
- Mal: Been a long time since Patience shot me and that was due to a perfectly legitimate conflict of interest. I got no grudge.
- Zoë: Now we have a boatful of citizens right on top of our... stolen cargo. That's a fun mix.
- : Captain, you mind if I say grace?
- Inara: So. Would you like to lecture me the wickedness of my ways?
- [Mal lowers his hands after realizing the lawman wants to arrest Simon, not him.]
- Wash: Can we maybe vote on the whole murdering people issue?
- Mal: I've given Jayne here the job of finding out.
- Jayne: Testing. Testing, Captain, can you hear me?
- Zoë: Don't think it's a good spot, sir. She still has the advantage over us.
- Mal: Well, we may not have parted on the best of terms. I realize certain words were exchanged. Also, certain... bullets.
- Mal: Well, you were right about this being a bad idea.
- Mal: Now I did a job. I got nothing but trouble since I did it, not to mention more than a few unkind words as regard to my character so let me make this abundantly clear. I do the job. And then I get paid.
- Wash [Speaking about incoming reaver ship] I guess they got hungry again...
- Dobson: Anybody makes so much as a [Mal shoots him.]
- [Wash, very calmly, is trying to evade a ship of brutal reavers.]
- Wash: I don't mean to alarm anybody, but I think we're being followed
- Zoë: I need this man to tear all my clothes off.
- Book: I've been out of the abbey two days, I've beaten a lawman senseless, I've fallen in with criminals. I watched the captain shoot the man I swore to protect. And I'm not even sure if I think he was wrong.
- Mal: How come you didn't turn on me, Jayne?
- Simon: You had the Alliance on you, criminals and savages... half the people on the ship have been shot or wounded including yourself, and you're harboring known fugitives.
The train job
- Mal: Say that to my face.
- : I said, you're a coward, and a pisspot. Now what are you gonna do about it?
- Mal: Nothin'. I just wanted you to face me so she could get behind ya.
- [Zoë punches Lund.]
- Mal: Drunks are so cute.
- Mal: This is why we lost, you know. Superior numbers.
- Zoë: Thanks for the re-enactment, sir.
- Mal: See, this is another sign of your tragic space dementia, all paranoid and crotchety.
- Mal: It's nothin'
- Simon: I expect there's someone's face feels differently.
- Mal: Well, they tell ya, never hit a man with a closed fist, but it is on occasion hilarious.
- Mal: Well, what about you, Shepherd? How come you're flying about with us brigands? I mean, shouldn't you be off bringing religiosity to the Fuzzie-Wuzzies or some such?
- Book: Oh, I got heathens aplenty right here.
- Mal: If I'm your mission, Shepherd, best give it up. You're welcome on my boat. God ain't.
- Inara: What did I say to you about barging into my shuttle?
- Mal: That it was manly and impulsive?
- Inara: Yes, precisely. Only the exact phrase I used was "don't".
- Mal: Kaylee, what the hell's goin' on in the engine room? Were there monkeys? Some terrifying maybe got loose?
- Kaylee: I had to rewire the grav thrust because somebody won't replace that crappy compression coil.
- Mal: He's not the first psycho to hire us, nor the last. You think that's a commentary on us?
- Zoë: Sir, is there some information we might maybe be lacking as to why there's an entire fedsquad sitting on this train?
- Mal: Doesn't concern us.
- Zoë: It kinda concerns me.
- Zoë: Sir? I think you have a problem with your brain being missing.
- Jayne: Time for some thrilling heroics.
- Jayne: You know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat you with until you understand who's in ruttin' command here.
- Jayne: You've got the light.. from the console.. keep you, lift you up. They shine like... [he tries to catch the light in his hands] ...little angels... [the drugged Jayne falls down]
- Wash: Did he just go crazy and fall asleep?
- [Jayne is lying on the floor outside the infermary.]
- Kaylee: We tried to get him into the infirmary, he's just heavy.
- Mal: Now this is all the money Niska gave us in advance. You bring it back to him, tell him the job didn't work out. [Crow spits.] We're not thieves — but we are thieves. Point is we're not takin' what's his. Now we'll stay out of his way the best we can from here on in. You explain that that's best for everyone, okay?
- : Keep the money. Use it to buy a funeral. It doesn't matter where you go, or how far you fly. I will hunt you down, and the last thing you see will be my blade.
- Mal: Darn. [Mal kills Crow by kicking him into the engine intakes. A second henchmen of Niska is brought forward.] Now this is all the money Niska gave us in advance...
- Henchman: Oh, I'm good. Best thing for everyone. I'm right there with you.
Bushwhacked
- : Proximity alert. Must be coming up on something.
- : [alarmed] Oh my god. What can it be? We're all doomed! Who's flying this thing!? [deadpan] Oh right, that would be me. Back to work.''
- : Looked bigger when I couldn't see him.
- : [about bypassing a boobytrap] Sure. Yeah. I think so. 'Sides, if I mess up, not like you'll be able to yell at me.
- : You fought with Captain Reynolds in the war?
- Zoë: Fought with a lot of people in the war.
- Harken: And your husband?
- Zoë: Fight with him sometimes, too.
- Harken: Is there any particular reason you don't wish to discuss your marriage?
- Zoë: Don't see that it's any of your business, is all. We're very private people.
- Wash: [Zoë's husband] The legs. Oh yeah, definitely have to say it was her legs. You can put that down. Her legs, and where her legs meet her back. Actually, that whole area. That, and above it. [...] Have you seen what she wears? Forget about it. Have you ever been with a warrior woman?
- Harken: Seems odd you'd name your ship after a battle you were on the wrong side of.
- : May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.
- Mal: That poor bastard you took off my ship. . Was made to stare.
- Harken: "It"?
- Mal: The darkness. Kind of darkness you can't even imagine. Blacker than the space it moves through.
- Harken: Very poetic.
- Mal: They made him watch. He probably tried to turn away, and they wouldn't let him. You call him a survivor? He's not. A man comes up against that kind of will, the only way to deal with it, I suspect, is to become it.
- : You saved his gorram life, he still takes the cargo. Hun2dan4 [jerk].
- Mal: He had to.... couldn't let us profit. Wouldn't be civilized.
Shindig
- : coming up a mite fast.
- : That's just cause, I'm going down too quick. Likely crash and kill us all.
- : Well, that happens, let me know.
- Mal: It's sounds like the finest party I can imagine getting paid to go to.
- I don't suppose you'd find it up to standards of your outings. More conversation and somewhat less petty theft and getting hit with pool cues.
- Wash: You want a slinky dress? I can buy you a slinky dress. Captain, can I have money for a slinky dress?
- Mal: [to Badger] You backed out of a deal last time. Left us hanging.''
- Hurt our feelings.
- Badger: You think you're better than other people.
- Mal: Just the ones I'm better than.
- Mal: wears a red sash crossways.
- : Why does he do that?
- Mal: Maybe he won the Miss Persephone . Just help me look.
- Kaylee: Is that him?
- Mal: That's the buffet table...
- Kaylee: Well how can we be sure, unless we question it?
- Wash: Sleepiness is weakness of character. Ask anyone.
- Wash: Here lies my beloved Zoe, my flower, somewhat less attractive now she's all corpsified and gross...
- Sir Warrick Harrow: I know him. And I think he's a psychotic low-life.
- Mal: And I think calling him that is an insult to the psychotic low-life community.
- Mal: My work's illegal, but at least it's honest.
- Mal: And I never back down from a fight.
- Inara: Yes, you do! You do all the time!
- Mal: Mercy is the mark of a great man. [stabs Atherton] Guess I'm just a good man. [stabs Atherton again] Well, I'm all right.
- Inara: Are you in pain?
- Mal: Absolutely. I got stabbed, you know, right here.
- Inara: [squemish] I saw.
- Mal: Don't care much for fancy parties. Too rough.
- Inara: It wasn't entirely a disaster.
- Mal: I got stabbed! Right here!
Safe
- Young River: [playing behind a couch] We got outflanked by the independent squad, and we're never gonna make it back to our platoon. We need to resort to cannibalism.
- Young Simon: That was fast. Don't we have rations or anything?
- Young River: [About Simon's homework] That's wrong.
- Young Simon: It's from the book, River.
- Young River: No, the book is wrong. This whole conclusion is fallacious.
- Gabriel Tam: I will not have it in my house. But since your mother's already ordered you one, I guess I should give up the fantasy that this is my house.
- : So, she's added cussing and hurling about of things to her repertoire. She really is a prodigy.
- : It's just a bad day.
- Mal: No, a bad day is when someone's yellin' spooks the cattle. Understand? You ever see cattle stampede when they got no place to run? It's kind of like a... a meat grinder. And it'll lose us half the herd.
- Simon: She hasn't gone anywhere near the cattle.
- Mal: No, but in case you hadn't noticed, her voice kinda carries. We're two miles above ground and they can probably hear her down there. Soon as we unload, she can holler until our ears bleed. Although I would take it as a kindness if she didn't.
- : The human body can be drained of blood in 8.6 seconds given adequate vacuuming systems.
- Mal: See, morbid and creepifying, I got no problem with, long as she does it quiet-like.
- : [to Simon stepping in a cow pie] 'Bout time you broke in them pretty shoes.
- Mal: [about cattle] You know... they walk just as fast if you lead 'em.
- Jayne: I like smackin' 'em.
- : Next time we smuggle stock, let's make it something smaller.
- : Yeah, we should start dealing in those black-market beagles.
- River: They weren't cows inside. They were waiting to be, but they forgot. Now they see the sky and they remember what they are.
- Mal: Is it bad that what she said made perfect sense to me.
- Simon: I'm very sorry if she tipped off anyone about your cunningly concealed herd of cows.
- : Does it seem every supply store on every 'water planet has the same five rag dolls and the same wood carvings of... what is this? A duck?
- : That's a swan. I like it.
- Inara: You do?
- Kaylee: [stroking swan] Looks like it was made with, you know, longing. Made by a person really longed to see a swan.
- Inara: Perhaps they'd only heard of them by rough description.
- Simon: It's fun, being forced to the ass-end of the galaxy. To get to live on a piece of lèsè [crappy] wreck. And to eat molded protein. And to be bullied around by our pien juh duh jiou chiao ren of a captain. It's fun.
- Kaylee [a mechanic]: Lèsè?
- Mal: This is the last time. Last time with cows. Hear there was an idea regarding beagles? They have smallish droppings?
- Zoë: I believe so, sir. Also, your disreputable men are here.
- Mal: Better go take their money.
- : That's... that's quite a lot of blood, isn't it?
- Mal: Just means you ain't dead.
- Book [a preacher]: Afraid I might be needing a preacher.
- Mal: That's good. You lie there and be ironical.
- River: We're lost... lost in the woods.
- Zoë: Knew a man who had a hole clean through his whole shoulder, once. Used to keep a spare hankie in there.
- Jayne: [faux-reading Simon's journal] "Dear Diary, Today I was pompous and my sister was crazy. [flips page] Today we were kidnapped by hill folk never to be seen again. It was the best day ever."
- Zoë: Captain will come up with a plan.
- Kaylee: That's good. Right?
- Zoë: Possibly you're not recalling some of his previous plans.
- Zoë: You sanguine about the kind of reception we're up to receive on an Alliance ship, Cap?
- Mal: Absolutely. What's "sanguine" mean?
- Zoë: "Sanguine." Hopeful. Plus, point of interest, it also means "bloody."
- Mal: Well, that pretty much covers all the options, don't it?
- Alliance commander: We aren't an emergency facility, Captain. Our services aren't available simply to anyone.
- Book: Com... mander... my... ident card.
- Alliance commander: [seeing who Book is] Get this man to the infirmary at once.
- Doralee: A place like this might be good for your sister. Quiet. Safe. A place where folks take care of each other.
- Simon: Mmm, yes, seems like a lovely little community of kidnappers.
- Jayne: [in the Alliance cruiser Magellan] This place gives me an uncomfortableness.
- River: I get confused. I remember everything. I remember too much, and... some of it's made up, and... some of it can't be quantified, and... there's secrets.
- River: You gave up everything you had to find me. And you found me broken.
- River: We won't be here long. Daddy will come and take us home. And I'll get better. I'll get better.
- Simon: It's been a big day, what with the abduction and all.
- Doralee: "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live!"
- Simon: I'm sorry, dad. You know I would never have tried to save River's life if I had known there was a dinner party at risk.
- Book: I am a Shepherd. Folks like a man of God.
- Mal: No, they don't. Men of God make everyone feel guilty and judged.
- Simon [standing on River's pyre]: Light it.
- Mal: Appears we got here just in the nick of time. What does that make us?
- Zoë: Big damn heroes, sir.
- Patron: This is a holy cleansing. You cannot think to thwart God's will.
- Mal: Y'all see the man hanging out of the spaceship with the really big gun? Now I'm not saying you weren't easy to find. It was kinda out of our way, and he didn't want to come in the first place. Man's lookin' to kill some folk. So really it's his will y'all should worry about thwarting. [to Simon] Gotta say, doctor, your talent for alienatin' folk is near miraculous.
- Simon: Yes, I'm very proud.
- Mal: [about River] Cut her down.
- Patron: That girl is a witch.
- Mal: Yeah, but she's our witch. [cocks gun] So cut her the hell down.
- Mal: Well, you were busy trying to get yourself lit on fire. It happens.
- Mal: So then the Shepherd says to the Companion, "Well, a good goat would do that."
Our Mrs. Reynolds
- Jayne: I married me a powerful ugly creature.
- Mal: How can you say that? How can you shame me in front of new people?
- Mal: You been bird-doggin' this township awhile now... folks 'round here wouldn't mind a corpse of you.
- Mal: I swear by my pretty flowered bonnet, I will end you.
- Mal: Like woman, I am a mystery.
- Mal: Someone ever tries to kill you, you try to kill 'em right back!
- Book: If you take sexual advantage of her, you're going to burn in a very special level of hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater.
- : Remember that sex we were planning to have, ever again?
- Jayne: It is my very favorite gun.
- Mal: She has a name.
- Jayne: So does this. I call it Vera.
- Mal: Well my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle.
- Mal: Whoa! Hey! Flesh...
- Mal: Whoa, good Bible.
- Mal: It's been a while -- a long damn while -- since anybody but me took ahold of my plow.
- : Some people juggle geese!
- Wash: Oh do I wish I was somebody else right now. Somebody not... married, not... *madly* in love with a beautiful woman who can kill me with her pinkie!
- Jayne: That's why I never kiss 'em on the mouth.
- Mal: But she was naked! And all... articulate!
- Wash: Okay! Everybody not talking about sex, in here. Everyone else, out.
- Jayne: See, Vera? Dress yourself up, you get taken out somewhere fun.
Jaynestown
- Kay: Bye now. Have good sex.
- Simon: All right. Fine. I'll go. Just... stop describing me.
- Wash: (watching Simon play his role... poorly): Who is this diabolical master of disguise?
- Simon: This must be what going mad feels like.
- Jayne: Instead of us hanging around playing art critic till I get pinched by the Man, how's about we move away from this eerie-ass piece of work and get on with our increasingly eerie-ass day?
- River: Bible's broken.
- Wash: We gotta go to the crappy town where I'm the hero!
- Simon: I reattached a girl's leg. Her whole leg. She named her hamster after me. I got a hamster. He drops a box of money, he gets a town.
- Simon: To Jayne! The box-dropping, man-ape-gone-wrong-thing.
- River: They say the snow on the roof was too heavy. They say the ceiling will cave in His brains are in terrible danger.
- Jayne: The living legend needs eggs.
- Mal: Let's go get our wayward babes.
- Jayne: You think there's someone just going to drop money on you?! Money they could use?! Well there ain't people like that... There's just people like me.
- River: Just keep walking, preacher-man.
- Mal: It's my estimation that every man ever got a statue made of him was one kind of sumbitch or another.
Out of gas
: You are very much lacking in imagination.: I imagine that's so, sir.
Mal: Try to see past what she is, on to what she can be.
Zoë: What's that, sir?
Mal: Freedom, is what.
Zoë: [pointing] No, I meant — what's that?
Mal: Oh. Just step around it. I think something must've been living in here.
Zoë: Get her running again?
Mal: Yeah.
Zoë: So not running now?
Mal: Not so much. But she will.
: Monastic humor. I miss out on all the fun.
: Yeah, 'cos sick people are hi-larious.
: [about Simon's birthday] "Day" is a vestigial mode of time measurement based on solar cycles. It's not applicable. [beat] I didn't get you anything.
: [regarding Simon's cake] Come on, Doc. Give a good blow.
Bester: No can do, cap. Secondary grav boot's shot.
Kaylee: No it ain't. [getting dressed] Ain't nothing wrong with your grav boot. Grav boot's just fine. Hello.
Bester: She don't... that's not... No it ain't!
Kaylee: Sure it is. Grav boot ain't your trouble. I seen the trouble plain as day when I's down
there on my back. Your reg couple's bad.
Mal: I need that in Captain Dummy Talk.
: Suffocation's not exactly the most dignified way to go. The human body will involuntarily
: [interrupting him] Please, I don't really require a clinical description right now.
Simon: I'm sorry. I just... [beat] It was my birthday
Wash: I guess the news that we're all gonna be purple and bloated and fetal in a few hours has made me little snippy.
Wash: Right. Because teenage pranks are fun when you're about to die.
Mal: I'm not leaving Serenity.
Inara: Mal — you don't have to die alone.
Mal: Everybody dies alone.
Mal: Well. Looks can be deceiving.
Jayne: Not as deceiving as a low down dirty... deceiver.
Mal: Well said. Wasn't that well said, Zoë?
Zoë: Had a kind poetry to it, sir.
Jayne: You want I should shoot 'em now, Marco?
Marco: Wait until they tell us where they put the stuff.
Jayne: That's a good idea. A good idea. Tell us where the stuff's at so I can shoot ya.
Mal: Point of interest? Offering to shoot us, don't work so well as an incentive as you might imagine.
Mal: I mean, let's say you did kill us. Or didn't. It could be torture. Whatever.
Mal: Zoë, I'm paying you too much.
Mal: You all gonna be here when I wake up?
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