Mal: All right, let’s get these crates stowed, I don’t want any tourists stumbling over them.
Kaylee: We’re taking on passengers at Persephone?
Mal: That’s the notion. Could use a little respectability on the way to Boros. Not to mention the money.
Jayne: Pain in the ass.
Kaylee: No, it’s shiny! I like to meet new people, they’ve all got stories!
Jayne: Captain, can you stop her from being cheerful, please?
Mal: I don’t believe there’s a power in the ‘Verse can stop Kaylee from being cheerful. Sometimes you just wanna duct tape her mouth and dump her in the hold for a month.
Kaylee: I love my captain.
Firefly: Episode 1 – “Serenity”
“Where’s Professor Snape?” shouted a girl from the Slytherin table.
“He has, to use the common phrase, done a bunk,” replied Professor McGonagall, and a great cheer erupted from the Gryffindors, Hufflepuffs, and Ravenclaws.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – J.K. Rowling
Willow: There is one name that keeps getting spit out. Aggressive behavior, run-ins with authorities, about a screenful of violent incidents.
Buffy: Okay, most of those were not my fault. Somebody else started ’em. I was just standing up for myself.
Willow: They say it’s a good idea to count to ten when you’re angry.
Buffy: One… Two… Three…
Willow: I’ll keep looking.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 2: Episode 15 – “Phases”
Many of my favorite movies have that one scene that I simply have to watch. I’m sure you have them to. When you’re flipping through TV channels and you come across a movie that you love, you’ll sit and watch it until that one scene plays and then you’ll feel free to change the channel to something else. For me and Jurassic Park, it’s the T-Rex attack, or inAliens it’s Ripley in the Power Loader (unless Aliens is showing on AMC, where they split the film’s finale in two so they can air 5 minutes of commercials right smack in the middle), or the Diva’s song in The Fifth Element. This past week I was channel surfing and came across one of my all-time favorite musicals on Turner Classic, West Side Story, and I lucked out because it was right before the start of my favorite scene, the one I just have to watch.
‘Stephen, Stephen, Stephen!’ Jack’s voice came along the corridor, growing louder and ending in a roar as he thrust his head into the room. ‘Oh, there you are. I was afraid you had gone off to your stoats again. The carrier has brought you an ape.’
‘What sort of an ape?’ asked Stephen.
‘A damned ill-conditioned sort of an ape. It had a can of ape at every pot-house on the road, and it is reeling drunk. It had been offering itself to Babbington.’
Post Captain – Patrick O’Brian
Take my love,
Take my land,
Take me where I cannot stand.I don’t care,
I’m still free,
You can’t take the sky from me.Take me out
To the black,
Tell ’em I ain’t coming back.Burn the land
And boil the sea,
You can’t take the sky from me.There’s no place
I can be
Since I found Serenity.But you can’t take the sky from me.
“The Ballad of Serenity” – Firefly
