Inara: So, explain to me again why Zoe wasn’t in the dress?

Mal: Tactics, woman. Needed her in the back. ‘Sides, those soft cotton dresses feel kinda nice. It’s the whole… air-flow.

Inara: And you’d know that because…?

Mal: You can’t open the book of my life and jump in the middle. Like woman, I’m a mystery.

Inara: Let’s keep it that way. I withdraw the question.

Firefly —Episode 6 — “Our Mrs. Reynolds”