Big Damn Hero

When chaos loomed, reason and accountability went out of the window.

Is it a good life or a bad one? The answer doesn’t matter. It’s the only life we have.

To a snail, a duck is a vengeful god.

You can’t change the past and you can’t do aught but rue the way you sometimes acted back when you were young and stupid and thought you were immortal. Doesn’t prevent you from wishing you could.

In there,” River said. “I was just stroking the horses. They have such soft noses, did you know that? Apart from the bristles. And their breath, when they snort, it’s warm on your hand. I like it. It smells of friendliness.

Browncoats, look up to the skies! Browncoats, hail the dawn! Today will see tyranny Dying with the morn. “Browncoats, are you weary? Browncoats, rise and sing! Your time has come, your war is won. Victory takes wing.

The HTX-20 isn't' supposed to explode unless it gets bumped around too much. Right, Badger?" Mal pressed. "That's right. Or gets wet or hot or all that other gubbins. We went over it, didn't we? You need a refresher course?" "No, it's just that crate got bumped. How do we know things are still all right?" Badger looked at him as if Mal was the stupid one. "We're not dead." Hard to argue with that.

Book knew, however, that God provided. It might not always seem as though He did. Indeed, to the untrained eye it sometimes looked as though the Lord’s methods were just plain berserk. But in the end, all said and done, He always came through. It was a cornerstone of Book’s belief, the rock he had rebuilt his life upon.

Fair’s fair. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a candy for a candy, a penny for your thoughts.

The usual deal: whatever’s going, if it pays, we’ll take it. Sorry state of affairs, but that’s how it is. Ain’t a kind or just ’verse, and nobody’s owed a living.

He was going to kill you,” she said. “And me. Fair’s fair. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a candy for a candy, a penny for your thoughts.” “Still and all. We don’t kill unless we have to.” River reflected on this, then smiled brightly. “Okay! That’s a good rule.” “I like to think so.