Name: Firefly
Genre: space Western, science fiction television series, drama television series, space opera
Cast: Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres, Alan Tudyk, Morena Baccarin, Adam Baldwin

A preacher in a long dark coat talks quietly with a rough captain in the lamplit galley of a spaceship. — Original artwork

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.

Book

A preacher in a dark coat and hat sits with folded hands at a galley table, a desert planet beyond the window. — Original artwork

I’ve been out of the abbey two days, I’ve beaten a lawman senseless, I’ve fallen in with criminals. I watched the captain shoot the man I swore to protect. And I’m not even sure if I think he was wrong.

Book

A woman in a blue silk gown examines a wooden carving at a dusty frontier-planet market stall crammed with dolls. — Original artwork

Does it seem every supply store on every water planet has the same five rag dolls and the same wood carvings of – what is this? A duck?

Inara

A burly man in a knitted orange hat tosses goods from a cart to a cheering crowd of frontier townsfolk at dusk. — Original artwork

All of you! You think there’s someone just gonna drop money on ya?! Money they could use?! Well, there ain’t people like that. There’s just people like me.

Jayne

A burly man in a knitted orange hat sits writing in a notebook at a lamplit table in a spaceship galley. — Original artwork

“Dear Diary: Today I was pompous and my sister was crazy. Today we were kidnapped by hill folk, never to be seen again. It was the best day ever.”

Jayne

A short lit wax candle with a small pool of wax on cool grey concrete, casting a sharp shadow to one side. — Original artwork

Far as I see it, you people been given the shortest end of the stick ever been offered a human soul in this crap-hill 'verse. But you took that end, and you... Well, you took it. And that's - Well, I guess that's somethin'.

Jayne

A slender curved glass sculpture glows along a central crack against a dark background. — Original artwork

Instead of us hanging around playing art critic till I get pinched by the Man, how’s about we move away from this eerie-ass piece of work and get on with our increasingly eerie-ass day, how’s that?

Jayne

Mud-caked workers raise tankards around a crude mud statue of a burly man with a gun in a muddy frontier town. — Original artwork

(singing) "The hero of Canton, the man they call 'me'."

Jayne

A folded paper bridge between two rocky ledges, one end resting on three stacked pebbles, surrounded by clouds. — Original artwork

Smellin’ a lot of “if” comin’ off this plan.

Jayne

Painterly empty burgundy velvet armchair with a wilted rose on its seat in a dark room. — Original artwork

This place gives me an uncomfortableness.

Jayne

A heavy rusty chain is piled on a weathered wooden crate in a dim room with strong side light. — Original artwork

You know what the chain of command is? It’s the chain I go get and beat you with ’til you understand who’s in ruttin’ command here.

Jayne

A taut bright red thread running through a small cluster of loose grey knots on a pale background. — Original artwork

No power in the ‘verse can stop me.

Kaylee

Crooked smiling theatrical mask on two blank sealed envelopes, maroon/copper — Original artwork

Ah, he’s not the first psycho to hire us, nor the last. You think that’s a commentary on us?

Mal

An empty cracked leather holster hangs on a rough wall in warm shadow. — Original artwork

Been a long time since Patience shot me, and that was due to a perfectly legitimate conflict of interest. I got no grudge.

Mal

A small sword lies on checked cloth between a yellow arrow near the hilt and a red arrow near the tip. — Original artwork

Don’t worry, I’m not gonna start any sword fights. I’m over that phase.

Mal

Painterly old revolver on a burgundy cushion beside a lit lantern. — Original artwork

Everybody dies, Tracey. Someone’s carryin’ a bullet for you right now, doesn’t even know it. The trick is, die of old age before it finds you.

Mal

A small green Statue of Liberty figurine holds a torch and a wooden baseball bat while standing on blue cloth. — Original artwork

It's my estimation that every man ever got a statue made of him was one kind of sumbitch or another. Ain't about you, Jayne. It's about what they need.

Mal

Orange and blue wooden dominoes stand in a row beside a fallen domino and a small metal spanner on a cream background. — Original artwork

Just once, I’d like things to go according to the gorram plan!

Mal

A toy sheep and cow stand beside a blank wooden arrow sign and a small brass whistle in a grassy landscape. — Original artwork

Let’s go get our wayward babes.

Mal

A tomato pincushion with a large needle beside a small cactus in a rose-coloured pot on a teal background. — Original artwork

Look, you got a little stabbed the other day. That’s bound to make anyone a mite ornery.

Mal

Three small wooden steps in fading gold tones, with a silver letter opener lying on the top step. — Original artwork

Mercy is the mark of a great man. (He lightly stabs Atherton) Guess I’m just a good man. (He stabs him again) Well, I’m all right.

Mal

A small mask with one rough black half and one smooth pink half. — Original artwork

My work’s illegal, but at least it’s honest.

Mal

A torn strip of pale frayed cloth hangs over a rusted metal plate against a rough brown background. — Original artwork

Reavers ain’t men – or they forgot how to be.

Mal

A dagger balances upright on its point between two coins on a dark wooden surface. — Original artwork

Someone ever tries to kill you, you try to kill ’em right back!

Mal

The next time you decide to stab me in the back, have the guts to do it to my face.

Mal

Painterly gold trophy on the tallest of five pedestals against deep crimson. — Original artwork

We have done the impossible and that makes us mighty.

Mal

A woman in a pink dress cooks in a spaceship galley as a captain in a long brown coat stands watching. — Original artwork

Well, my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle.

Mal

Painterly red rose lying across a gold-framed hand mirror on dark red velvet. — Original artwork

We’re not gonna die. We can’t die, Bendis. You know why? Because we are so very pretty. We are just too pretty for God to let us die.

Mal

A small wooden figure casts two shadows in opposite directions across cracked orange ground. — Original artwork

We’re not thieves. Well, we are thieves. Point is, we’re not takin’ what’s his. Now, we’ll stay out of his way as best we can from here on in. You explain that that’s best for everyone, okay?

Mal

Three small unmarked stylized pistols in a compact static arrangement — Original artwork

You know, I do believe that woman is planning to shoot me again.

Mal

A young woman in a pale dress, seen from behind, stands in a spaceship galley doorway with a red scarf at her feet. — Original artwork

He looks better in red.

River

A fluffy white hat drapes over a wooden stool with loose tufts scattered on pale grey ground. — Original artwork

They say the snow on the roof is too heavy. They say the ceiling will cave in. His brains are in terrible danger.

River

A worn muddy walking boot stands beside a fern and small pebbles against a muted green background. — Original artwork

We’re lost. Lost in the woods.

River

A frosty blue glass tube wrapped in a knitted scarf stands in a mound of white crystals. — Original artwork

You’re afraid we’re going to run out of air. That we’ll die gasping. But we won’t. That’s not going to happen. We’ll freeze to death first.

River

A model ship made from a walnut shell with a pale sail beside a brass compass on a teal surface. — Original artwork

Tell you what. You buy this ship – treat her proper – she’ll be with you for the rest of your life.

Salesman

I’m very sorry if she tipped off anyone about your cunningly concealed herd of cows.

Simon

A frayed rope hangs down the corner of a battered blue-gray metal crate. — Original artwork

It’s been a big day, what with the abduction, and all.

Simon

A pilot holds up a toy dinosaur at the controls of a starship cockpit facing a sky full of stars. — Original artwork

Yes. Yes. This is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it …’This Land’.

Wash

A small ceramic ballot box with a teal paper slip in its slot and a tiny brass gavel on a rust-orange cloth. — Original artwork

Can we maybe vote on the whole “murdering people” issue?

Wash

A wooden bear, blue vintage car and guitar sit beside a black felt poodle leaping above felt snow and three wooden goslings on cupped wooden hands. — Original artwork

Every planet has its own weird customs. About a year before we met, I spent six weeks on a moon where the principal form of recreation was juggling geese. My hand to God. Baby geese. Goslings. They were juggled.

Wash

A small green toy dinosaur stands beside a pale feather on a warm golden surface. — Original artwork

I wish I was somebody else right now, somebody not… married, not madly in love with a beautiful woman who can kill me with her pinky.

Wash

A black clerical collar with a white tab rests on a red velvet cushion beside a pink carnation. — Original artwork

Monastic humor. I miss out on all the fun.

Wash

A small metal trophy with a red cape stands against cobalt blue. — Original artwork

We gotta go to the crappy town where I'm the hero!

Wash

What happened to Simon? Who is this diabolical master of disguise?

Wash

A miniature wooden bed with a pillow and rust-colored blanket, beside a small box holding a second pillow. — Original artwork

Remember that sex we were planning to have, ever again?

Zoe

A battered transport ship climbs over desert mesas at sunset, a lone rider on a ridge watching, in rust and teal print colours. — Original artwork

You can't take the sky from me.

"The Ballad of Serenity", the theme of Firefly (2002)

A grinning pilot lounges at a starship's controls with his boots up, holding a toy dinosaur, more toy dinosaurs on the dashboard and a ringed planet outside, a woman watching from the doorway. — Original artwork

Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!

Wash

A man in a long brown coat rests a hand on the curved hull in a spaceship's cargo bay, a desert sunset glowing through the open ramp. — Original artwork

Shiny.

Mal

Two figures in long coats walk through a torchlit crowd toward a girl tied to a pyre as a battered spaceship hovers overhead, its ramp open. — Original artwork

Mal: What does that make us? Zoe: Big damn heroes, sir. Mal: Ain't we just.

Mal Reynolds and Zoe, Firefly, "Safe" (2002)