Firefly (TV Series)

War Stories (2002)

Ron Glass: Shepherd Derrial Book

Quotes 

• Zoë : Preacher, don't the Bible have some pretty specific things to say about killin'?

  Book : Quite specific. It is, however, somewhat fuzzier on the subject of kneecaps.

• Simon : I never - never shot anyone before.

  Book : I was there, son. I'm fair sure you haven't shot anyone yet.

• Book : A government is a body of people, usually, notably ungoverned.

• Book : Oh, my.

  Kaylee : Oh, gosh, I - I-I knew she took female clients, I just... They look so glamourous together.

  Jayne : [beat]  I'll be in my bunk.

• Book : I'd forgotten, you're moonlighting as a criminal mastermind now. Got your next heist planned?

  Simon : No... but I'm thinking about growing a big black mustache. I'm a traditionalist.

• Book : Did you ever read the works of Shan Yu?

  Simon : Shan Yu the psychotic dictator?

  Book : Yep. Fancied himself quite the warrior poet. Wrote volumes on war, torture, the limits of human endurance.

  Simon : That's nice.

• Zoë Washburne : Preacher, don't the Bible have some pretty specific things to say about killing?

  Shepherd Book : Quite specific. It is, however, somewhat fuzzier on the subject of kneecaps.