- Emma: Shepherd...
- Shepherd Book: No, thank you!
- Emma: We were hoping we might have a prayer meeting?
- Lucy: We ain't had one in months, 'cept what Emma here reads out on Sunday.
- Emma: Last Shepherd to come by was springtime, and he only read the one passage, and he took it out in trade off both of us.
- Mal: You know, not wise, sneaking up on a man when he's handling his weapon.
- Inara Serra: I'm sure I've heard that said. But perhaps the dining area isn't the place for this sort of thing?
- Mal: What do you mean? Only place with a table big enough.
- Inara Serra: Of course. In that case, every well-bred petty crook knows that the small, concealable weapons always go to the far left of the place setting.
- Mal: Well, I just, I... didn't want you thinking that I was taking advantage of your friend.
- Inara Serra: She's well worth taking advantage of. I sincerely hope you did.
- Mal: So you're okay. Well, yeah, why-why wouldn't you be...
- Inara Serra: I wouldn't say I'm entirely okay. I'm a little appalled at her taste.
- Inara Serra: How many babies have you actually delivered?
- Simon: As the primary? This would be the first. You?
- Inara Serra: My first too.
- River: Mine too.
- [after Inara agrees to help a friend of hers]
- Inara Serra: I suppose you heard most of that?
- Mal: [peeking around the shuttle entrance] Only because I was eavesdropping.
- Inara Serra: It sounds like something this crew can handle. I can't guarantee they'll handle it particularly well, but...
- Nandi: If they've got guns and brains at all...
- Inara Serra: They've got guns.
- Inara Serra: I learned something from Nandi, not just from what happened, but from her. The family she made, the strength of her love for them, it's what kept them together. When you live with that kind of strength, you get tied to it. You can't break away, and you never want to. There's something - there's something I should've done a long while ago. And I'm sorry, for both of us, that it took me this long. I'm leaving.
- Mal: [over the radio, as Wash and Kaylee are boarding Serenity] Wash, gonna be tradin' injuries in under two minutes. Like my sky a little less empty!
- Jayne: Don't much see the benefit in gettin' involved in stranger's troubles without a up-front price negotiated.
- Shepherd Book: These people need assistance. The benefit wouldn't necessarily be for you.
- Jayne: That's what I'm sayin'.
- Zoë: No one's gonna force you to go, Jayne. As has been stated, this job is strickly speculative.
- Jayne: Good. Don't know these folks, don't much care to.
- Mal: They're whores.
- Jayne: I'm in.
- Mal: Math just don't add up. Our weapon store aren't exactly overpowerin' at the moment, and I don't much like what we'd be up against. Nothing worse than a monster who thinks he's right with God. We might turn Burgess away once, but he'll keep comin' - won't stop 'till he gets what he thinks is his. So we run.