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brownquotes "war stories"
Thursday, January 15, 2009 6:51 PM
War Stories[Book quotes fictional warrior-poet and psychotic dictator Shan Yu to Simon.]
Book: He said, "Live with a man forty years. Share his house, his meals… speak on every subject… then tie him up, and hold him over the volcano's edge, and on that day, you will finally meet the man."
Simon: What if you don't live by a volcano?
Book: I suspect he was being poetical.
. . .
Book: You're moon-lighting as a criminal mastermind now. Got your next heist planned?
Simon: No. But, I am thinking of growing a big black mustache. I'm a traditionalist.
. . .
Book: A government is a body of people; usually, notably ungoverned.
Simon: Now you're quoting the Captain.
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[River and Kaylee are running recklessly through the cargo bay.]
Mal: [to Inara] Ah, the pitter-patter of tiny feet in huge combat boots... [to River and Kaylee] SHUT UP!
. . .
Mal: One of you is gonna fall and die, and I'm not cleaning it up!
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[Kaylee triumphantly holds up the apple she wrested from River.]
Kaylee: No power in the 'verse… can stop me.
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[Wash and Zoe are arguing about the extent to which Zoe follows Mal's orders.]
Zoe: Is there any way I'm gonna get out of this with honor and dignity?
Wash: You're pretty much down to ritual suicide, lamby-toes.
...
Zoe: I thought your plan was too risky. I thought.
Wash: Then tell me. I am a large, semi-muscular man. I can take it.
Zoe: That's right. Because what this marriage needs is one more shouting match.
Wash: No, what this marriage needs is one less husband. Right now it's kind of crowded.
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River: Played with Kaylee. The sun came out, and… I walked on my feet, and… heard with my ears. I ate the bits. The bits did stay down. And I work. I… function like I'm a girl. I hate it because I know it'll go away! The sun… goes dark, and chaos is come again. Bits… fluids! What am I?
Simon: You... are my beautiful sister.
[River and Simon hug]
River: I threw up on your bed.
Simon: Yep. Definitely my sister.
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[Repeated line, when Jayne spots Inara with her female client.]
Jayne: I'll be in my bunk.
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[Wash has sabotaged Serenity's shuttle to prevent Zoe from leaving with Mal.]
Mal: Okay. I'm lost... I'm angry... and, um, I'm armed.
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Wash: Hey, I've been in a firefight before. [Pauses] Well, I was in a fire once. [Pauses] Actually, I was fired from a fry cook opportunity...I can handle myself.
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[Wash and Mal are blindfolded in Niska's torture chamber.]
Wash: Mal, she's my wife!
Mal: Huh?
Wash: What right do you have to put her in a dangerous situation like this?
Mal: I didn't!
Wash: You did!
Mal: She ain't here, Wash!
Wash: Yeah, but she would have been!
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Wash: I'm the one she swore to love, honor and obey.
Mal: You- [amused] Obey? She swore to obey?
Wash: Well, no, not- but that's my point! You she obeys! She obeys you! There's obeying going on right under my nose!
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Mal: You're making out like Zoe just blindly follows my every word, and that ain't true.
Wash: Sure it is.
Mal: Not so. There have been plenty of orders of mine she didn't obey.
Wash: Name one!
Mal: She married you!
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[Zoe, Book, and Jayne come across the corpses of the men Mal and Wash were dealing with.]
Book: This is precision work. Sharpshooters. From the look of these wounds I'd say a 54-R sniper
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