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“Jayne: We're sittin' put for a funeral?

Mal: Yes, Jayne. That's exactly what we're gonna do. Not gonna have these people lookin' over my shoulder once we're gone. I ain't sayin' there's any peace to be had, but on the off chance there is, those folks deserve a little of it.

Inara Serra: Just when I think I've got you figured out.”
— Jayne Cobb, Firefly, Season 1: Bushwhacked
Tagged: funeral, Peace
“It's a real burden being right so often.”
— Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly, Season 1: Bushwhacked
Tagged: Humblebragging
“ We didn't fly 86 million miles to track down a box of Band-Aids, Colonel.”
— Hands of Blue, Firefly, Season 1: The Train Job
Tagged: band-aids, Space Travel
“Tell you what I think. I figure that fella we run into did everyone on board. Killed 'em all. Then he decided to take a swim, see how fast his blood would boil out his ears.”
— Jayne Cobb, Firefly, Season 1: Bushwhacked
Tagged: Murder, blood boiling
“Book: How's the girl?

Mal: Still a little whimsical in the brainpan. Seems calm enough, though.

Mal: [River knocks over a tray of medical instruments; both look her way at the sound of instruments clattering] Mm-hmm.

Book: That young man's very brave.

Mal: Yeah. [sarcastically]

Mal: He's my hero.

Book: Gave up everything to free his sister from that place. Go from being a doctor on the central planets to hiding on the fringes of the system... Not many who would do that.”
— Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly, Season 1: The Train Job
Tagged: Brave, Hero
“[after Inara has been doing Kaylee's hair and Mal has ordered her out]
Mal: You're servicing crew now.

Inara Serra: [snickers] In your lonely, pathetic dreams.”
— Inara Serra, Firefly, Season 1: The Train Job
Tagged: Come-ons, shot down
“That sounds like the Alliance. Unite all the planets under one rule so that everybody can be interfered with or ignored equally.”
— Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly, Season 1: The Train Job
Tagged: Unity
“These are stone killers, little man. They ain't cuddly like me.”
— Jayne Cobb, Firefly, Season 1: The Train Job
Tagged: killers, Cuddly
“Mal: [after getting tossed out a simulated bar window] Wash, we got some local color happening. A grand entrance would not go amiss.

[Zoe comes out fighting a drunk; more join in as Mal takes on the one Zoe knocked down]

Mal: Is Jayne even awake?
[Jayne comes out fighting two at once, pushing them back with his stool]”
— Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly, Season 1: The Train Job
Tagged: local color, fights
“You're a very 'up' person.”
— Zoë Washburne, Firefly, Season 1: The Train Job
Tagged: positive
“Sheriff Bourne: We had some, uh, unrelated trouble. His story had kind of an odor to it.

Inara Serra: Yes, it's not the only thing about him that does.”
— Inara Serra, Firefly, Season 1: The Train Job
Tagged: odor, body odor
“Niska: Oh, you do not like I kill this man?

Mal: Oh no, I'm sure he was a...very bad person.”
— Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly, Season 1: The Train Job
Tagged: Murder
“Jayne: [the three of them are playing Chinese checkers; to Mal] Your move.

[Mal jumps four marbles]
Zoë: That's a bold move.

Mal: I live on the edge.
[Zoe jumps six of his marbles]

Jayne: Nice work, dumbass.

Mal: [as Zoe chuckles] I've given some thought to moving off the edge. Not an ideal location. Might get a place in the middle.”
— Jayne Cobb, Firefly, Season 1: The Train Job
Tagged: chinese checkers
“Book: I wish I could help.
[Inara turns to face him & he realizes what he said] I mean...I don't wanna help—not help help, but—not with the thieving, but— [Inara smiles, tries not to laugh]

Book: I do feel awfully useless.

Inara: You could always pray they make it back safely.

Book: I don't think the captain would much like me praying for him.

Inara: Don't tell him. I never do.”
— Inara Serra, Firefly, Season 1: The Train Job
Tagged: useless, prayer
“Jayne: [as Lund raises a gun] Hey, hey, hey, them ain't kosherized rules.

Lund: I'm thinkin' somebody needs to put you down, dog. What do you think?

Mal: I'm thinking we'll rise again.

[Serenity rises into view behind them]

Wash: [over loudspeaker] Every man there go back inside, or we will blow a new crater in this little moon.
[door opens and Jayne, Zoe and Mal run onto the ship; watching the men from the bar retreat inside, Mal waves goodbye as the door closes]

Jayne: Damn yokels, can't even tell a transport ship ain't got no guns on it.
[laughing] 'Blow a new crater in this moon.'”
— Jayne Cobb, Firefly, Season 1: The Train Job
Tagged: yokels, kosher, crater, Moon, Guns
“Simon: [looking at Mal's swollen knuckles] 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.

Simon: Hmm. I suppose so.”
— Simon Tam, Firefly, Season 1: The Train Job
Tagged: fights, closed fist
“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.”
— Shepherd Derrial Book, Firefly, Season 1: Our Mrs. Reynolds
Tagged: Child Molestors, Sexual Advantage, Hell, Threats
“How we treat our dead is part of what makes us different...than those did the slaughtering.”
— Shepherd Derrial Book, Firefly, Season 1: Our Mrs. Reynolds
Tagged: Death, burial, slaughtering
“Mal: Whatever happens, remember I love you.

Zoë: Sir?

Mal: Because you're my wife.

Zoë: Right. Sir. Honey.”
— Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly, Season 1: The Train Job
Tagged: Love, Marriage, Wife
“Inara: Mal, if you're being a gentleman, I may die of shock.

Mal: Have you got time to do my hair?

Inara: Out!”
— Inara Serra, Firefly, Season 1: The Train Job
Tagged: Gentleman, Hairdo
“Lund: [drunk] Hey, you gonna drink t'the Alliance with me? Six years today, the Alliance sent the Browncoats runnin', pissin' their pants. You know, your coat is kind of a brownish color.

Mal: It was on sale. [drinks]

Lund: You didn't toast. Y'know, I'm thinkin' you're one o' them In'apendants.

Mal: And I'm thinking you weren't burdened with an overabundance of schooling. So why don't we just ignore each other till we go away?

Lund: The Independents were a bunch o' cowardly inbred piss pots. Should'a been killed off o' every world spinnin'.

Mal: [puts down drink] Say that to my face.

Lund: [threateningly] I said... you're a coward and a pisspot. Now what're you gonna do about it?

Mal: [smiles suddenly] Nothing. I just wanted you to face me so she could get behind ya…[Lund turns, and Zoë hits him in the face with the butt of her gun]…Drunks are so cute.”
— Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly, Season 1: The Train Job
Tagged: Drinking, Drunks, Violence
“Inara Serra: A companion chooses her own clients. That's guild law. But physical appearance doesn't matter so terribly. You look for a compatibility of spirit... There's an energy about a person that's difficult to hide. You try to feel that...

Mal: [walks in] And then you try to feel the energy of their credit account. It has a sort of aura...

Inara Serra: What did I say to you about barging in to my shuttle?

Mal: That it was manly and impulsive?

Inara Serra: Yes, precisely. Only the exact phrase I used was 'don't.'

Mal: Well you're holding my mechanic in thrall—and Kaylee, what the hell's going on in the engine room? Were there monkeys? Some terrifying space monkeys maybe got loose?”
— Inara Serra, Firefly, Season 1: The Train Job
Tagged: Companion, Law, Appearance, manly, Energy, Credit, Aura
“Jayne: You know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat you with 'til ya understand who's in ruttin' command here. Now we're finishing this deal…[breathing becomes a little more labored]…and then maybe, maybe we'll come back for those morons who got themselves caught. You can't change that by getting all... bendy.

Wash: All what?

Jayne: [starts swaying] You've got the—the light from the console...keep you, lift you up. They shine like...[starts grabbing at the air like he's trying to catch something]…little angels...[Jayne falls flat on his face]

Wash: Did he just go crazy and fall asleep?

Simon: I told him to sit down.”
— Jayne Cobb, Firefly, Season 1: The Train Job
Tagged: Drunk, Drugged, Chain of Command
“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 fuzzy-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.”
— Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly, Season 1: The Train Job
Tagged: Religion, God, Heathen
“Malcolm: There’s plenty of orders of mine that she didn’t obey!
    
Wash: Name one!
    
Malcolm: She married you!”
— Cheryl Cain, Joss Whedon, Firefly, Season 1: War Stories
Tagged: obedience, orders, Marriage, insults
“The way it is, is the way it is. We gotta deal with what’s in front of us.”
— Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly, Season 1: Serenity
Tagged: Practical, Pragmatic, Reality
“I start fighting a war, I guarantee you’ll see something new.”
— Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly, Season 1: Serenity
Tagged: Fighting, War, Creativity
“I’m no good with words. Don’t…don’t use ’em much myself.”
— Jayne Cobb, Firefly, Season 1: Jaynestown
Tagged: Words, Loquaciousness, Silent Type
“Up until the punching, it was a real nice party.”
— Kaylee Frye, Firefly, Season 1: Shindig
Tagged: Violence, party, Irony
“ Sir, I think you have a problem with your brain being missing.”
— Zoë Washburne, Firefly, Season 1: The Train Job
Tagged: Stupid, insults, Anacephalic
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