"You have a strange sense of nobility, Captain. You'll lay a man out for implying I'm a whore, but you keep calling me one to my face."
"I might not show respect to your job, but he didn't respect you. That's the difference. Inara, he doesn't even see you."

"Come on, Inara. How's about we don't play. You didn't just trip, did you?"
"No."
"Well, isn't that something."

"I-I know this man. He's... He just has this idiotic sense of nobility, you know? He can never just let things go. He thinks he's this hard-hearted criminal, and he can be unrelenting, but... there's a side to him that's just so..."

"Mal, you don't have to die alone."
"Everybody dies alone."