More Whedon-speak.

From “Shindig”:

Harrow: “I know him. And I think he’s a psychotic lowlife.”

Mal: “And I think calling him that is an insult to the psychotic lowlife community.”

“Safe”:

Book: “What are we up to, sweetheart?”

River: “Fixing your Bible.”

Book: “I, um…(alarmed)…what?”

River: “Bible’s broken. Contradictions, false logistics - doesn’t make sense.” (she’s marked up the bible, crossed out passages)

Book: “No, no. You - you can’t…

River: “So we’ll integrate non-progressional evolution theory with God’s creation of Eden. Eleven inherent metaphoric parallels already there. Eleven. Important number. Prime number. One goes into the house of eleven eleven times, but always comes out one. Noah’s ark is a problem.”

Book: “Really?”

River: “We’ll have to call it early quantum state phenomenon. Only way to fit 5000 species of mammal on the same boat.” (rips out page)

“Out of Gas”:

Mal: “Looks can be deceiving.”

Jayne: “Not as deceiving as a lowdown, dirty… deceiver.”

Mal: “Well said. Wasn’t that well said, Zoe?”

Zoe: “Had a kind of poetry to it, sir.”

“Objects in Space”:

Wash: “Little River just 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.”

[…]

Mal: “But she does have an oddness to her. And I ain’t just talking about her proficiency with firearms. Girl knows things. Things she shouldn’t. Things she couldn’t.”

Jayne: “Wha-…are you-are you sayin’ she’s a witch?”

Wash: (sarcastically) “Yes, Jayne. She’s a witch. She has had congress with the beast.”

Jayne: “She’s in Congress?”

Wash: (amazed) “How did your brain even learn human speech? I’m just so curious.”