I've known a dozen like you. Skipped off-home early. Minor graft jobs here and there. Spent some time in the lockdown, but less than you claim. Now you're, what, a petty thief with delusions of standing? Sad little king of a sad little hill.

River

Inara: How did I avoid that?
Mal: By being fast like a freak

Inara: You have a strange sense of nobility, Captain. You'll lay a man out for implying I'm a whore, but you keep calling me one to my face.
Mal: I might not show respect to your job, but he didn't respect you. That's the difference. Inara, he doesn't even see you.

See how I'm not punching him? I think I've grown.

Mal

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

Mal

Mal: You know, they walk just as easily if you lead 'em.
Jayne: I like smacking 'em.

Is it bad that what she said made perfect sense to me?

Mal

Right. I'm very sorry if she tipped off anyone about your cunningly concealed herd of cows.

Simon

Doc can be called a lot of things. Coward isn't one of them.

Mal

Dear Diary, today I was pompous and my sister was crazy. Today we were kidnapped by hillfolk, never to be seen again. It was the best day ever.

Jayne

I took you away from there. 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. But I understand. You gave up everything you had to find me. You found me broken. It's hard for you. You gave up everything you had.

River

Mei mei. Everything I have is right here.

Simon

Firefly Quotes

Mal: You're only going to scare him.
Jayne: Pain is scary.

Mal: I gotta know how close the Alliance is, exactly how much you told them before Wash scrambled your call. So I've given Jayne here the job of finding out.
Jayne: He was non-specific as to how.