Quotes

Jayne: Yeah, too tall, too tall!
Wash: Jayne!
Jayne: Little man!

Inara: Simon, you are. Leaving your whole world behind. It's incredibly selfless.
Simon: Yeah. I selflessly turned us both into wanted fugitives.
Inara: Well, we're all running from something, I suppose.

Wash: Oh my god. What can it be? We're all doomed! Who's flying this thing!? Oh right, that would be me. Back to work. 
Kaylee: So I guess that makes us one man short.
Jayne: Little Kaylee's always one man short.

River: It's ghosts.

Jayne: Tell you what I think. I think that fellow we ran into did everyone on board, killed them all, then decided to take a swim through space, see how fast his blood would boil out of his ears.
Wash: You're a very "up" person. 

Simon: Shh, shh, it's okay, it's okay, I'm here. Bad dreams again?
River: No, I can't sleep. There's too much screaming.
Simon: River, there is... there is no screaming.
River: There was.

Mal: Nobody escaped.
Zoe: Sir?
Mal: Nobody.
Zoe: Oh my god.
Mal: Jen dao mei. I know what did this. Get her out of here. Jayne? Jayne, drop what you're doing, and get to the engine room. I want you to take Kaylee and the doctor off this boat.

Simon: Oh yes, he's a real beast. It's a wonder you're still alive.
Jayne: Looked bigger when I couldn't see him.

Book: So he'll live then.
Mal: Which to my mind is unfortunate.
Book: Not a very charitable attitude, Captain.
Mal: Charity'd be putting a bullet in his brainpan.
Inara: Mal!
Mal: Only save him the suffering.

Jayne: Reavers ain't men.
Book: Of course they are. Too long removed from civilization, of course, but men. And, I believe there is a power greater than men, a power that heals. 
Mal: Reavers might take issue with that philosophy. If they had a philosophy. If they weren't too busy gnawing on your insides. Jayne's right, Reavers ain't men. Or they forgot how to be. Now they're just nothing. They got out to the edge of the galaxy, to that place of nothing, and that's what they became.

Mal: Yes, Jayne, that is exactly what we're going to do. Not going to have these people looking over my shoulder once we're gone. I'm not saying there's any peace to be had, but on the off chance there is, those folks deserve a little of it. 
Inara: Just when I think I've got you figured out.

Mal: You tell me right now, little Kaylee, you really think you can do this?
Kaylee: Sure. Yeah. I think so. 'Sides, if I mess up, not like you'll be able to yell at me.

Harken: I want every inch of this junker tossed.
Kaylee: Junker?
Mal: Settle down, Kaylee.
Kaylee: But Captain, did you hear what that purple-belly called Serenity?

Inara: Not in the least. It's a mutually beneficial business arrangement. I rent the shuttle from Captain Reynolds, which allows me to expand my client base. And the Captain finds that having a Companion on board opens certain doors to him that might otherwise be closed to him.
Harken: And do you love him?

Wash: The legs. Oh yeah, definitely have to say it was her legs. You can put that down. Her legs, and where her legs meet her back. Actually, that whole area. That, and above it. 

Wash: Have you seen what she wears? Forget about it. Have you ever been with a warrior woman?

Mal: Commander, I'm not what you need to be concerned with right now. Things go the way they are, there's going to be blood. 

Mal: They made him watch. He probably tried to turn away, and they wouldn't let him. You call him a survivor? He's not. A man comes up against that kind of will, the only way to deal with it, I suspect, is to become it. He's following the only course left to him. First, he'll try to make himself look like one. Cut on himself, desecrate his flesh and then, he'll start acting like one. 

Jayne: You saved his gorram life he still takes the cargo. Hwoon dahn.
Mal: He had to... Couldn't let us profit. Wouldn't be civilized.