Serenity Quotes

Do you know what the definition of a hero is? Someone who gets other people killed.

You all got on this boat for different reasons, but you all come to the same place. So now I’m asking more of you than I have before. Maybe all. Sure as I know anything I know this, they will try again. Maybe on another world, maybe on this very ground swept clean. A year from now, 10, they’ll swing back to the belief that they can make people better. And I do not hold to that. So no more running. I aim to misbehave.

We’re making a better world. All of them, better worlds.

Shepherd Book used to tell me, “If you can’t do something smart, do something right.”

Love. You can learn all the math in the ‘verse, but you take a boat in the air that you don’t love, she’ll shake you off just as sure as the turning of the worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she ought to fall down, tells you she’s hurting before she keels. Makes her a home.

If your quarry goes to ground, leave no ground to go to.

I ain’t looking for help from on high. That’s a long wait for a train don’t come.[to Derrial]

Ah, hell, I’m a fan of all seven. But right now, I’m gonna have to go with wrath.[The Operative: Do you know what your sin is, Mal?]

This landing is gonna get pretty interesting.[Malcolm ‘Mal’ Reynolds: Define interesting.]Oh, God, oh, God, we’re all gonna die?

There’s a lot of fine ways to die. I ain’t waiting for the Alliance to choose mine.

Secrets are not my concern. Keeping them is.

Please, spend an hour with him.[The Operative: Captain Reynolds, I should tell you, so that you don’t waste your time, you can’t make me angry.]