Mal: You know what the first thing of flying is, Little Albatross? Well of course you do. You can read my mind.

River: I want to hear you say it.

Mal: Love. You can know all the math in the 'verse, you take a bird in the air you don't love it'll shake you just as sure as the worlds turn. Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down. Tells you she's hurting 'fore she keenes. Makes her a home.

River: The storm's getting worse.

Mal: We'll come out of it soon enough.

Wash: I am a leaf on the wind, watch how I soar.

Kaylee: Going on a year now and ain't nothing twixt my nethers that ain't been run on batteries.

Mal: Oh, God, I can't know that!

Jayne: I could stand to hear a little more.

Jayne: She is starting to damage my calm.

Mal: Just get us on the ground.

Wash: That part will happen most definitely.

Wash: I don't know, but if she doesn't give more power to offset the burn through this landing is going to get very interesting.

Mal: Define interesting.

Wash: "Oh God, Oh God we're all going to die"?

Mal: [Talking into the intercom.] This the captain speaking. We might experience some turbulence, then explode.

Mr. Universe: Guy killed me with a sword, Mal. How weird is that?

Mal: You wanna pilot this ship?

Jayne: Yes!

Mal: Well...you can't.