River Tam

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River Tam Quotes

	Season 1 / Episode 14: - Trash River Tam: My food is problematic. Jayne Cobb: Girl's a mind-readin' genius, can't even figure out how to eat an ice-planet.
	Season 1 / Episode 14: - Trash River Tam: [to Simon] You are such a boob.
	Season 1 / Episode 14: - Trash River Tam: My food is problematic.
	Season 1 / Episode 10: - Objects in Space Mal: How come there's a guy on board and how come you're all of a sudden the ship? River Tam: I know you have questions Mal: That would be why I just asked them.
	Season 1 / Episode 10: - Objects in Space Zoë: I can take this guy out. River Tam: He's faster than you - all of you. And he's wearing armor. Hoban 'Wash' Washburne: What about his face? Is his face wearing armor?
	Season 1 / Episode 10: - Objects in Space River Tam: Permission to come aboard? Mal: You know, you ain't quite right River Tam: It's the popular theory. Mal: Go on. Get in there. Give your brother a thrashing for messing up your plan. River Tam: He takes so much looking after.
	Season 1 / Episode 9: - War Stories River Tam: No power in the 'verse can stop me.
	Season 1 / Episode 9: - War Stories Simon: Did you do anything today? River Tam: Played with Kaylee. The sun came out, and I walked on my feet and heard with my ears. I hate the bits, the bits that stay down and I work, I f-function like I'm a girl. I hate it because I know it'll go away! The sun grows dark and chaos has come again. It's... fluids. What am I? Simon: You are my beautiful sister. River Tam: I-I threw up on your bed. Simon: Yep. Definitely my sister.
	Season 1 / Episode 7: - Safe River Tam: Ruby doesn't talk. Her voice got scared away. River Tam: I hear crickets. Doralee: I don't understand. If Ruby didn't talk, how do you know...? Dr. Simon Tam: Um, uh, my sister's... she-she's very good at- What's wrong? Doralee: "And they shall be among the people, and they shall speak truths and whisper secrets, and you will know them by their crafts." Dr. Simon Tam: What are you talking about? Doralee: "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live."
	Season 1 / Episode 7: - Safe River Tam: The human body can be drained of blood in 8.6 seconds given adequate vacuuming systems. Mal: See, morbid and creepifying, I got no problem with, long as she does it quiet-like.
	Season 1 / Episode 7: - Safe River Tam: I remember everything. I remember too much. And some of it's made up, and some of it can't be quantified, and there's secrets, and... Simon: Hey, i-it's okay. River Tam: But, I understand. You gave up everything you had to find me. You found me broken. It's hard for you. You gave up everything you had. Simon: Mei-mei, everything I have is right here.
	Season 1 / Episode 6: - Shindig River Tam: [mimicing Badger's Cockney accent] Sure, I got a secret. More 'n one. Don't seem likely I tell 'em to you now, do it? Anyone off Titan colony knows better 'n to talk to strangers. You're talkin' loud enough for the both of us, though, ain't ya? I've met a dozen like you. Skipped off-home early. Minor graft jobs here and there. Spent some time in the lockdown, but less than you claim. And you're, what, a petty thief with delusions standing? Sad little king of a sad little hill. Badger: Nice to see someone from the old homestead. River Tam: Not really. Call me if anyone interesting shows up. Badger: I like her.
	Season 1 / Episode 4: - Jaynestown Book: What are we up to, sweetheart? River Tam: Fixing your Bible. Book: I, um... [alarmed] What? River Tam: Bible's broken. Contradictions, false logistics - doesn't make sense. Book: No, no. You-you-you can't... River Tam: 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 Tam: We'll have to call it early quantum state phenomenon. Only way to fit 5000 species of mammal on the same boat.
	Season 1 / Episode 2: - Bushwhacked Mal: [on the bridge; all looking at the ship that set of the proximity alarm] Mal: Bring us in a little closer. Wash: Get you close enough to ring the doorbell. Dr. Simon Tam: What is it? River Tam: It's a ghost. [half smiles briefly]
	Season 1 / Episode 2: - Bushwhacked Dr. Simon Tam: [River's sitting up in bed, face hidden in her hair & hands; panting & sobbing softly] Dr. Simon Tam: Bad dreams again? River Tam: No I - I can't sleep. There's too much screaming. Dr. Simon Tam: [pause, River still sobbing; sounds slightly worried] River, there is - there is no screaming River Tam: [looking straight at him; whispers] There was.
	Season 1 / Episode 1: - The Train Job River Tam: Mal. Bad. In Latin.

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