FireFlight: Quotes

Safe

M=Mal, B=Book, I=Inarra, J=Jayne, K=Kaylee, R=River, S=Simon, W=Wash, Z=Zoe
D=Doralee, YR=Young River, YS=Young Simon

YR: We got outflanked by an Independent squad, and we're never gonna make it back to our platoon. We need to resort to cannibalism.
YS: That was fast. Don't we have rations or anything?
YR: They got lost. We're going to have to eat the men.

Tam Sr.: I will not have it in my house. But since your mother's already ordered one, I guess I might as well give up the fantasy that this is my house.

M: So, she's added cussing and hurling about of things to her repertoire. She really is a prodigy.

M: Soon as we unload, she can holler until our ears bleed -- although I would take it as a kindness if she didn't.
R: The human body can be drained of blood in 8.6 seconds given adequate vacuuming systems.
M: See, morbid and creepifying, I got no problem with, long as she does it quiet-like.

M: You know, they walk just as easy if you lead them.
J: I like smackin' them.

Z: Next time we smuggle stock, let's make it something smaller.
W: Yeah, we should start dealing in those black-market beagles.

M: Cattle on the ship three weeks, she don't go near them. Suddenly we're on Jiangyin and she's got a driving need to commune with the beasts?
R: They weren't cows inside. They were waiting to be, but they forgot. Now they see sky, and they remember what they are.
M: Is it bad when what she said made perfect sense to me?

M: When a man engages in clandestine dealings, he has this preference for things going smoothly. She makes things not be smooth.
S: Right. I'm very sorry she tipped off anyone about your cunningly concealed herd of cows.

Grange: We can go to 25.
M: Well... we'll be taking a loss. But you seem like clean and virtuous boys. Done.

S: Some of these words -- they're misspelled. She started correcting my spelling when she was three.

Z: I knew a man had a hole clean through his shoulder once. Used to keep a spare hankie in there.

J: [as Simon] Dear Diary, today I was pompous and my sister was crazy. Today, we were kidnapped by hill people, never to be seen again. It was the best day ever.

Z: Captain'll come up with a plan.
K: That's good, right?
Z: Possible you're not recalling some of his previous plans.

Z: You sanguine about the kind of reception were apt to receive on an Alliance ship, Captain?
M: Absolutely.
J: What's 'sanguine'?
Z: Sanguine. Hopeful. Plus, point of interest, it also means bloody.
M: Well, that pretty much covers all the options, don't it?

D: Place like this might be good for your sister. Quiet, safe, place where folks take care of each other.
S: Yes, seems like a lovely little community of kidnappers.

S: This isn't our home.
D: If it isn't here, where is it?

R: I took you away from there.
S: No.
R: I know I did. You don't think I do, but... 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...
S: it's okay.
R: But I understand. You gave up everything to find me, and you found me broken. It's hard for you. You gave up everything you had.
S: Mei mei, everything I have is right here.

S: These are better than the Camberson's berries.
R: They are. Except they're poison.

S: It's been a big day, with the abduction and all.

S: I'm sorry, Dad. You know I would never have tried to save River's life if I'd known there was a dinner party at risk.

Tam Sr.: Are you trying to destroy this family?
S: I didn't realize it would be so easy.

B: I am a shepard. Folks like a man of God.
M: No, they don't. Man of God makes everyone feel guilty and judged.

M: You like to tell me what really happened?
B: I surely would. And maybe someday I will.

M: Seems we got here just in the nick f time. What does that make us?
Z: Big damn heroes, sir.
M: Ain't we just.

Patron: This is a holy cleansing. You cannot think to thwart God's will.
M: Y'all see that man hanging out of the spaceship with the really big gun? Now I'm not saying you weren't easy to find, but it was kind of out of our way, and he didn't want to come in the first place. Man's looking to kill some folks. So really, it's his will y'all should worry about thwarting.

M: Gotta say, doctor, your talent for alienating folks is near miraculous.
S: Yes, I'm very proud.
Patron: The girl is a witch!
M: Yeah, but she's our witch. So cut her the hell down.

S: So, finally, a decent wound on this ship and I miss out. I'm sorry.
M: Well, you were trying to get yourself lit on fire. It happens.

S: Captain... why did you come back for us?
M: You're on my crew.
S: You don't even like me. Why'd you come back?
M: You're on my crew. Why're we still talking about this?

M: So Shepard says to a Companion, "Well, a good goat will do that."