FireFly Quotes
Kaylee: "Everybody's got somebody..."
(wistfully) "Wash, tell me I'm pretty..."
Wash: "Were I unwed, I would take you in a manly
fashion."
Kaylee: " 'Cause I'm pretty?"
Wash: " 'Cause you're pretty."
Kaylee: "Thank you. That was very restorative."
Kaylee: Because I'm Pretty?
Wash: Because you're pretty.
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Mal: "We're not gonna die. We can't die, Bendis. You
know why? Because we are so...very...pretty. We are just too
pretty for God to let us die."
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Jayne: "Do you know what the chain of command is
here? It's the chain I go get and beat you with to show you who's in
command."
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Mal: "Cut her down."
Villager: "The girl is a witch."
Mal: "Yeah, but she's our witch-" (cocks gun,
points it at him) "-so cut her the hell down."
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Inara: "So, explain to me again why Zoe wasn't in
the dress?"
Mal: "Tactics, woman! Needed her in the back.
'Sides, them soft cotton dresses feel kind of nice. There's a whole
airflow."
Inara: "And you would know that because...?"
Mal: "You can't open the book of my life and jump in
the middle. Like woman, I'm a mystery."
Inara: "Best keep it that way. I withdraw the
question."
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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."
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Book: "What are we up to, sweetheart?"
River: "Fixing your Bible."
Book: "I, um...(alarmed)...what?"
River: "Bible's broken. Contradictions, false logistics -
doesn't make sense." (she's marked up the bible, crossed out passages)
Book: "No, no. You - you can't...
River: "So we'll integrate non-progressional evolution
theory with God's creation of Eden. Eleven inherent metaphoric parallels already
there. Eleven. Important number. Prime number. One goes into the house of eleven
eleven times, but always comes out one. Noah's ark is a problem."
Book: "Really?"
River: "We'll have to call it early quantum state
phenomenon. Only way to fit 5000 species of mammal on the same boat." (rips
out page)
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Book: "Yes, I'd
forgotten you're moonlighting as a criminal mastermind now. Got your next heist
planned?"
Simon: "No.
But I'm thinking about growing a big black mustache. I'm a traditionalist."
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Wash: "I mean,
I'm the one she swore to love, honor and obey."
Mal:
"Listen..." (beat) "She swore to obey?"
Wash: "Well,
no, not... But that's just my point! You she obeys! She obeys you! There's
obeying going on right under my nose!"
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Zoe: "Preacher,
don't the Bible have some pretty specific things to say about killing?
Book: "Quite
specific. It is, however, somewhat fuzzier on the subject of kneecaps."
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River:
"Also? I can kill you with my brain."
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Jayne: (wearing ugly homemade hat) "How's it
sit? Pretty cunning,
don'tchya think?"
Kaylee: "I think it's the sweetest hat ever."
Book: "Makes a statement."
Jayne: "Yeah, yeah!"
Wash: "A man walks down the street in that hat,
people know he's not afraid of anything."
Jayne: "Damn straight."
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Mal: "You know, it ain't altogether wise, sneaking
up on a man when he's handling his weapon."
Inara: "I'm sure I've heard that said. But perhaps
the dining area isn't the place for this sort of thing?"
Mal: "What do you mean? Only place with a table big
enough."
Inara: "Of course. In that case..." (rearranges
guns) "Every well-bred petty crook knows -- the small concealable
weapons always go to the far left of the place setting."
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Zoe: "No one's gonna force you
to go, Jayne. As has been stated -- this job's strictly speculative."
Jayne: "Good. 'Cause I don't know these folks, don't
much care to."
Mal: "They're whores."
Jayne: "I'm in."
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Wash: "Little
River just gets more colorful by the moment. What'll she do next?"
Zoe: "Either
blow us all up or rub soup in our hair. It's a toss-up."
Wash: "I hope
she does the soup thing. It's always a hoot, and we don't all die from it."
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Mal: "But she
does have an oddness to her. And I ain't just talking about her proficiency with
firearms. Girl knows things. Things she shouldn't. Things she couldn't."
Jayne: "Wha-...are
you-are you sayin' she's a witch?"
Wash:
(sarcastically) "Yes, Jayne. She's a witch. She has had congress with the
beast."
Jayne: "She's
in Congress?"
Wash:
(amazed) "How did your brain even learn human speech? I'm just so curious."
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Wash: "Psychic,
though? That sounds like something out of science fiction."
Zoe: "We live
in a space ship, dear."
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Mal: You know, you ain't quite right.
River: It's a popular theory.
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River: No power in the 'verse can stop me.