Firefly Quotes

[Book is giving a sermon to a church while Mal, Jayne, and Zoe are on a job at the local bank. After the job goes south, Book shows up in some sort of giant dune-buggy to rescue them.]
Mal: So... how goes the flock?
Book: At the moment? To their homes. To fetch their guns.

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[Still in the dune-buggy, dodging bullets.]
Mal: Prayerful group you found yourself here, Shepherd. And here I thought that book of yours had a thing in it about not killing folks.
Book: It does. Comes a bit before the one about not stealing.
. . .
Jayne: Stop chasin' us! We don't got your damn money! Go chase the guys with the money!!!
Zoe: Jayne, you yelling like that's only going to make them want to shoot you more.
Jayne: How you figure?
Zoe: Because it makes me want to shoot you.

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River: Ball of yarn... All knotted and tangled with different weights and colors, but pull one string and you pull them all...

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[Mal hands a bag of coins to Wash.]
Mal: Get her fueled, Wash.
Wash: With dirt? With cheap dirt?

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Jayne: He was crowdin' me, and I don't know him. I hit people that crowd me I don't know.

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[Dobson talks with the blue-gloved men.]
Dobson: You're wrong. I don't want Serenity. I want Reynolds.
[Reveal: A room filled with defaced images of Mal, "Kill Reynolds" and "die Reynolds" scrawled on the walls and furniture.]
Dobson: You could say I'm… preoccupied with the idea.

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[Mal is wearing a red shirt and just finished explaining their next job.]
Mal: Anyone else has words, now would be the time.
River: I hate that color on you. I always have.

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Mal: You kill me. What then?
Dobson: I dunno. I imagine I'll get a hobby or something…

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Zoe: And after we kill 'em all, sir?
Mal: Honestly, my thinking hadn't gotten that far.

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Mal: We're in space, Shepherd. It's always the middle of the night.

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Zoe: Where are we going, sir?
Mal: The same as always. Forward.

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Mal: [After shooting an already dead Dobson] Just making sure.

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from "Firefly-Serenity Chinese Pinyinary"

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bao 
stuffed bun (hanyupinyin: bao)
ching-wah TSAO duh liou mahng 
frog-humping sonofabitch (hanyupinyin: qing wa cao de liu mang)
da-shiong bao-jah-shr duh la doo-tze 
the explosive diarrhea of an elephant (hanyupinyin: da xiang bao za shi de la du zi)
DONG-luh-MAH?
Are we clear here? (hanyupinyin: dong le ma?)
guay 
hell; ghost, demon (hanyupinyin: gui)
go-se 
crap, worthless thing; from gou-shi, dog excrement (hanyupinyin: gou shi)
HOE-tze duh PEE-goo 
monkey's butt (hanyupinyin: hou zi de pi gu)
hwoon dahn 
jerk, bastard, scoundrel; literally, "bastard egg" (hanyupinyin: hun dan)
Je shr shuh muh lan dong shi? 
What the hell is this stuff?; literally: This is what (cock) thing? (hanyupinyin: zhe shi shenme lan dongxi?)
luh-suh 
garbage (Taiwanese) (hanyupinyin: le se)
mei-mei 
little sister (hanyupinyin: mei mei)
Ni cho lyen, yo may yo?
Do you have a worried face? (hanyupinyin: ni chou lian, you mei you?)
shee-niou 
rhino (hanyupinyin: xi niu)
shiong-mung duh kwong-run 
violent lunatic (hanyupinyin: xiong meng de kung ren)
suo-SHEE 
petty, small and tedious; trivial; trifling (hanyupinyin: suo xi)
wei 
hey; hello (hanyupinyin

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[opening narration for episodes: Out of Gas and Shindig]
Mal: Here's how it is: Earth got used up, so we terraformed a whole new galaxy of Earths, some rich and flush with the new technologies, some, not so much. Central Planets, them as formed The Alliance, waged war to bring everyone under their rule. A few idiots tried to fight it, among them, myself. I'm Malcolm Reynolds, Captain of Serenity. Got a good crew: fighters, pilot, mechanic. We even picked up a preacher and a bona fide companion. There's a doctor, too. Took his genius sister outta some Alliance camp, so they're keeping a low profile. You got a job, we can do it, don't much care what it is.

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[opening narration for episodes: Safe, Ariel, War Stories, Heart of Gold]
Mal: Here's how it is: The Earth got used up, so we moved out and terraformed a whole new galaxy of Earths. Some rich and flush with the new technologies, some not so much. The Central Planets, thems formed the Alliance, waged war to bring everyone under their rule; a few idiots tried to fight it, among them myself. I'm Malcolm Reynolds, captain of Serenity. She's a transport ship; Firefly class. Got a good crew: fighters, pilot, mechanic. We even picked up a preacher for some reason, and a bona fide companion. There's a doctor, too, took his genius sister outta some Alliance camp, so they're keepin' a low profile. You understand. You got a job, we can do it, don't much care what it is.

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[opening narration for episodes: Train Job, Bushwacked, Our Mrs. Reynolds, Jaynestown]
Book: After the Earth was used up, we found a new solar system and hundreds of new Earths were terraformed and colonized. The central planets formed the Alliance and decided all the planets had to join under their rule. There was some disagreement on that point. After the War, many of the Independents who had fought and lost drifted to the edges of the system, far from Alliance control. Out here, people struggled to get by with the most basic technologies; a ship would bring you work, a gun would help you keep it. A captain's goal was simple: find a crew, find a job, keep flying.

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opening song: Take my love, take my land / Take me where I cannot stand / I don't care, I'm still free / You can't take the sky from me / Take me out to the black / Tell 'em I ain't comin' back / Burn the land and boil the sea / You can't take the sky from me / There's no place I can be / Since I found serenity / But you can't take the sky from me

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