Post brief quotes from fiction/narrative/whatever

[Elendil's Heir]

Mal: "Miss Nandi, I have a confession to make."
Nandi: "Maybe I should get the Shepherd."
Mal: "Well, I ain't sinned yet. And I'd feel a little more'n awkward if he were here when I did."

Firefly

[Jizzelbin]

"When Josie comes home, so bad
She's the best friend we ever had
She's the raw flame, the live wire
She prays like a Roman with her eyes on fire"

— Josie

[Elendil's Heir]

Nandi: "Malcolm, I been waiting for you to kiss me since I showed you my guns."
Nandi (after he kisses her but then draws back): "You okay with this?"
Mal: "I'm just waiting to see if I pass out. Long story."

Firefly

[Jizzelbin]

"You know, there's room to move as a fry cook! I could be manager in two years: king! God!"

— Repo Man

[Elendil's Heir]

Kaylee: "Cap'n seem a little... funny to you at breakfast this morning?"
Wash: "Come on, Kaylee. We all know I'm the funny one."

Firefly

[Jizzelbin]

"What a mind Einstein must have had: fucking morons, everywhere!"

— David Lynch, some interview he did

[Elendil's Heir]

Inara: "So you took to bed with Nandi. I'm glad."
. . .
Mal: "So, you're okay. Well, yeah. Why… why wouldn't you be?"
Inara: "I wouldn't say I'm entirely okay. I'm a little appalled at her taste."

Firefly

[Jizzelbin]

"An Aries guy will continue to ignore you, even if you turn on the waterworks in his presence. He is impervious to tears and unimpressed by theatrics.

He won’t feel sorry for you and instead will get annoyed and frustrated that he has to deal with you."

— some astrology website (don't give me any shit about it! it's fun!)

[Elendil's Heir]

Zoe: "You and I would make one beautiful baby. And I want to meet that child one day. Period."

Firefly

[Jizzelbin]

"Vincent, what are you doing? Beat em, eat em and get out of here!"

— The Color of Money

[Elendil's Heir]

Book: "Girls, nobody's going to die!"
Jayne (immediately after): "There's people gonna die."

Firefly

[Jizzelbin]

"The original synth [Ensoniq SQ-80] was discontinued in 1989 and was famously used by the likes of filmmaker John Carpenter and Assyrian producer Aril Brikha."

— some blurb on a website

[Elendil's Heir]

Jayne (over radio): "Whoa, now, girl, that is just plain dirty."
Mal: "Jayne, you aware your radio's transmittin'? Cause I ain't feelin' particular girlish or dirty at the moment."

Firefly

[Jizzelbin]

"In the pipe, five by five."

— Aliens

[Elendil's Heir]

Ooo, great movie!

"Guess she doesn't like cornbread."

Aliens

[Jizzelbin]

"Hey Vazquez, you ever been mistaken for a man?
— No, have you?"

— Aliens

[Elendil's Heir]

"I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit - it's the only way to be sure."

Aliens

[Jizzelbin]

"It was a bad call, Ripley. A bad call."

— Aliens

[Elendil's Heir]

"Did IQs just drop sharply while I was away?"

Aliens

[Jizzelbin]

"Do you like what, I just ain't climbing in no dirty ass trunk!"

— Jackie Brown

[Elendil's Heir]

Ordell Robbie: "You shot Melanie?"
Louis: "Twice."
Ordell Robbie: "Is she dead?" [Louis does not reply] "Is she dead, yes or no?"
Louis: "Pretty much."

Jackie Brown

[Jizzelbin]

"One thing we don't need is that bitch surviving on us. Because pisces natives are in fact unstable, lazy and undisciplined."

— Jackie Brown (shooting script)

[Elendil's Heir]

Ordell Robbie: "Here we go. AK-47. The very best there is. When you absolutely, positively got to kill every motherfucker in the room, accept no substitutes."

Jackie Brown

[Jizzelbin]

"Normally I try to steer them to a nine millimeter, because it's practically the same damned gun, and doesn't have half the jamming problems of a forty-five."

— JB

[Elendil's Heir]

"Shut your raggedy ass up and sit the fuck down!"

Jackie Brown

[Jizzelbin]

"People born under Pisces have no idea how to follow instructions because they believe everything and are illogical."

— some website about stuff. (they also have no ability to provide clear instructions for various games of skill, or anything, really, except in sex)

[Elendil's Heir]

"You can't trust Melanie. But you can always trust Melanie to be Melanie."

Jackie Brown

[Jizzelbin]

"Who says she do anything for me? She my friend!"

—JB

[Elendil's Heir]

"Half a million dollars will always be missed."

Jackie Brown

[Jizzelbin]

"We eating, look at 'em sleeping
Now doobie sucker you supper
I tell 'em 'welcome to Kansas City, duck motherfucker!'"

— Tech N9ne, "Give it Up"

[Elendil's Heir]

Petaline (holding her infant son): "Rance, this is Jonah. Jonah... say hi to your daddy." (she shoots Rance) "Say goodbye to your daddy, Jonah."

Firefly

[Jizzelbin]

"Well now, here's a man who wants to get right down to it. Kinda anxious to get to it are ya?"

—Mulholland Drive

[Elendil's Heir]

Kaylee: "You don't remember any of this?"
Simon (thinking back to a drunken party after graduating from med school): "I remember talking the feds out of telling my father. Or... or paying the feds out of telling my father? I get fuzzy on that aspect...."

Firefly

[Jizzelbin]

“In the plain ordinary hustle you hide your true speed; in the psychological hustle you try to drive your opponent out of his fucking skull."

— Danny McGoorty, reported in Robt. Byrne, D. McGoorty, McGoorty: A Pool Room Hustler

[Elendil's Heir]

Jayne: "Saint Jayne, got a ring to it!"
Book: "I'm just trying to remember how many miracles you've performed."
Jayne: "I once hit a guy in the neck from five hundred yards with a bent scope, don't that count upstairs?"
Book: "Oh, it'll be taken into consideration."
Jayne: "...You made that sound kinda ominous."

Firefly

[Jizzelbin]

"Ever fight a dinosaur, kid? They can cause a variety of damage!"

— Mickey, in Rocky III.

[Elendil's Heir]

Mal: "You know, the only thing you're gonna find in New Melborne is fish and fish-related activities, so unless you got the overwhelming urge to gut sturgeon... and who hasn't, occasionally...."

Firefly

[Jizzelbin]

“At some level, all love is combat, a wrestling with ghosts.”

— Camille Paglia

[Elendil's Heir]

Mal (after relieving River of a gun she, disoriented, didn't realize she was holding): "Fully loaded, safety off. This here is a recipe for unpleasantness."

Firefly

[Jizzelbin]

"[W]ith Young Frankenstein, I bought 200 [white handkerchiefs] —it was a bigger crew, a lot of people. I said, “If you’re not in the scene, take this handkerchief, and when you feel you’re going to laugh, shove this in your mouth.”

— interview with Mel Brooks

[Elendil's Heir]

River: "She understands. She doesn't comprehend."
Mal: "Well, I'm glad we've made that distinction."

Firefly

[Jizzelbin]

"And the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day before the sun went down: What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? And he said unto them: If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle."

— Judges reported speech by character "Samson" (spoiler alert: Delilah was involved as well).

[Elendil's Heir]

Mal: "If I want a lot of medical jargon, I'll talk to a doctor."
Simon: "You are talking to a doctor."

Firefly

[Jizzelbin]

"It's just too bad that girl's a bum
She's crafty - she's gets around
She's crafty - she's always down
She's crafty - she's got a gripe"

— Beastie Boys, "She's Crafty"

[Elendil's Heir]

Wash: "Little River gets more colorful by the moment. What'll she do next?"
Zoe: "Either blow us all up or rub soup in our hair. It's a toss-up."
Wash: "I hope she does the soup thing, it's always a hoot and we don't all die from it."

Firefly

[Jizzelbin]

"What it do, it's your boy big Snoop Dogg, and I need y'all to go subscribe right now to the AARP Channel, you know what I'm talking about?"

— Snoop Dogg, advertising for AARP

[Elendil's Heir]

Zoë: "Where's River at now?"
Mal: "In her room, which I'm thinking we bolt from the outside from now on."

Firefly

[Jizzelbin]

"It's better to be alone than to be with someone who makes you feel alone."

— hoary aphorism

[Elendil's Heir]

Zoe: "Sir, I know she's unpredictable. But I don't think she'd harm anyone."
Jayne: "Butcher's knife?!"
Zoe: "Anyone we can't spare."

Firefly

[Jizzelbin]

“I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I’m one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know.”

— Mel Brooks