Mal: 'We have done the impossible, and that makes us mighty.'

Mal: 'Now this is all the money Niska gave us in advance. You give it back to him, tell him the job didn't work out.'

Mal: 'Reavers ain't men—or they forgot how to be.'

Mal: 'Mercy is the mark of a great man... Guess I'm just a good man... Well, I'm all right.'

Simon: 'She has done nothing to you! If she dies tonight, it won't be God's will that killed her! It'll be you! Your lunacy, your... ignorance!'

Book: 'If you take sexual advantage of her, you're going to burn in a very special level of Hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater.'

Jayne: 'The hero of Canton, the man they call me.'

Mal: 'Ship like this, be with you till the day you die.'

Jayne: 'Make something up. Don't tell 'em what I did.'

River: 'No power in the 'verse can stop me.'

River: 'Also, I can kill you with my brain.'

Jayne: 'What'd y'all order a dead guy for?'

Inara: 'I wouldn't say I'm entirely okay. I'm a little appalled at her taste.'

River: 'Wrong about River. River's not on the ship. They didn't want her here. But she couldn't make herself leave. So she melted. Melted away. They didn't know she could do that.'