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

Kaylee: That’s a swan… I like it.

Inara: You do?

Kaylee: Looks like it was made with, you know, longing. Made by a person really longed to see a swan.

Inara: Perhaps because they’d only heard of them by rough description.

Firefly — Episode 5 — “Safe”