Favorite River quotes

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JEWELSTAITEFAN

Thursday, January 17, 2008 8:47 AM

OK, we've gone through the favorite Mal and Jayne quotes, enough of the lightweight stuff.
Now let's see what are the fave of our most intriguing character, River.

Also, I can kill you with my brain.

STEAMER

Thursday, January 17, 2008 3:29 PM

"Doesn't matter! It'll still be there....waiting!"

(That line, plus a new addition the BSR, makes me wonder - was there something about Book's hair that reminded River of her recent past? *starts making fanficcish notes*)

Shepherd's hair
Was wild and free
And that's what caused
River to flee
FIREFLY

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FARFLY

Thursday, January 17, 2008 3:34 PM

"Keep on walking preacher man"

EVILDINOSAUR

Thursday, January 17, 2008 4:50 PM

The human body can be drained of blood in 8.6 seconds given adequate vaccuuming systems.

"Haha, mine is an evil laugh."

FREELANCERTEX

Thursday, January 17, 2008 7:03 PM

"Jayne is a girl's name." -- I love the way she says that and the smile on her face XD

"No..can't... too. much. hair."

"And Early, Serenity is very unhappy." -- the way she says that creeps me out somethin' fierce

RCAT

Thursday, January 17, 2008 7:47 PM

"Day is a vestigial mode of time measurement based on solar cycles. It's not applicable...I didn't get you anything."

FREEBROWNCOAT

Thursday, January 17, 2008 7:51 PM

"Call me if anyone interesting comes along."

SHEPARDBOOKEM

Thursday, January 17, 2008 7:52 PM

We're in their homes
and in their heads
and we haven't the right.

FREELANCERTEX

Thursday, January 17, 2008 8:34 PM

"You're going to suspend cerebral, cardiac, and pulminary activity in order to induce a proto-comatose state." -- uh...say again?

EVILDEAD1971

Thursday, January 17, 2008 9:15 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Rcat:
"Day is a vestigial mode of time measurement based on solar cycles. It's not applicable...I didn't get you anything."

ditto. love how she's all genius and then falls into sister mode

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STEAMER

Thursday, January 17, 2008 10:08 PM

You know, it's an oddness - even though River is clearly one of the focal characters on the show, she really doesn't say much, except for a few episodes like 'Safe'

"Stupid son of a bitch, dressing me up like a gorram doll!"

and OiS. There's a great deal more quotes regarding River by the rest of the gang. Curious....

Calm is River
Scared is Jayne
"I can kill you
With my brain."
FIREFLY

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WHIMSICALNBRAINPAN

Thursday, January 17, 2008 10:28 PM

"Who do you think is in there?"

And of course the quote I have next to my avatar.

"Well, my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle." http://whimsicalnbrainpan.blogspot.com/

FREEBROWNCOAT

Friday, January 18, 2008 12:54 AM

Quote:

"Who do you think is in there?"
Quote:

It was so cool how Summer gave that line

WHIMSICALNBRAINPAN

Friday, January 18, 2008 12:59 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Freebrowncoat:

"Who do you think is in there?"
It was so cool how Summer gave that line

It really was. I laughed so hard when she said it. I think Summer did an excellent job of delivering it. I could actually picture River's mind working to figure out the little person inside.

"Well, my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle." http://whimsicalnbrainpan.blogspot.com/

FREELANCERTEX

Friday, January 18, 2008 2:12 AM

the expression on her face was so priceless too when she said that. XD

FARFLY

Friday, January 18, 2008 2:50 AM

This one???

FREELANCERTEX

Friday, January 18, 2008 2:59 AM

XD YEAH THAT!! *sniggers histerically* I don't think even I could reproduce that face and I'm good at imitation.

RIVERFLAN

Friday, January 18, 2008 3:28 AM

Um... Well, there's the obvious ones, but those aren't my favorites. I like those slighty obscure ones, like

It's just an object. It doesn't mean what you think.

Call me if anyone interesting comes along.

And I love how she gets all tachno-babbly on this one, wish I could do that

So we'll integrate non-progressional evolution thoery 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

And the days as measurement of solar cycles, not applicable one, I can't recall the exact wording off the top of my head.

And I can't believe that no-one's mentioned these yet:
I swallowed a bug, and
My food is problematic

I think I got carried away with this a little

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JEWELSTAITEFAN

Friday, January 18, 2008 5:14 AM

She understands. She doesn't comprehend.

STEAMER

Friday, January 18, 2008 8:45 PM

Ahh, but then there is the classic:

"You are such a boob."

RF, I'd suggest you check out some of Schooner's stories - he's got River down cold. I, too, love it when she does her human scientific calculator bit, and Schooner did this one short story where she dabbled in the culinary arts - it was a RIOT! Oh, and 'River's Letter to Santa' deserves to become a classic. (Schooner, you listening? I'm plugging you, dude.... )

River's fixing
Book is balking
Preacher man
Just keeps walking
FIREFLY

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TDBROWN

Saturday, January 19, 2008 12:38 AM

"They say the snow on the roof is too heavy - They say the ceiling will cave in - His brains are in terrible danger -"

"Might have been the losing side, still not convinced it was the wrong one." -Mal

FREEBROWNCOAT

Saturday, January 19, 2008 12:47 AM

Objects in Space. "He takes so much looking after."
What a wonderful twist to their relationship.

POWEROFTHEVERSE

Saturday, January 19, 2008 6:15 AM

"I'm better."

Oh how warm I felt inside when I heard that one.

GAPSULE

Saturday, January 19, 2008 7:34 AM

Everything from the Our Ms. Reynolds Deleted Scene is great (my favorite scene).

"Two by two, we want a match made, double, I love you"
I want to use this someday

"The captain took a wife"

"We'll take care of each other-I'll knit."

"Now we have to be married, we have a family in the way."

Famous quote no one has mentioned:
"Bullet in the brain pan-squish."

I wonder if we can quote her various screaming scenes.

RCAT

Saturday, January 19, 2008 9:58 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Gapsule:

Famous quote no one has mentioned:
"Bullet in the brain pan-squish."

Ah yes, good one...One of her quotes that pops into my head on a somewhat regular basis...Morbid and creepifying but pretty poignet when your job makes you want to rip your hair out.

PACHELBEL

Saturday, January 19, 2008 12:40 PM

"Everyone remain calm."

Select to view spoiler:

It's hi-larious, how, with her face sticking through the car's windshield, she delivers that line with a complete lack of facial expression.

Ok, I know it's not a River line, but it's a Rivernator line --- close enough.

GAPSULE

Saturday, January 19, 2008 8:45 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by pachelbel:

Ok, I know it's not a River line, but it's a Rivernator line --- close enough.

Rivernator, my new favorite word.

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Monday, January 21, 2008 6:36 AM

Mal. Bad. In the Latin.

PEULSAR5

Monday, January 21, 2008 7:25 AM

O.K., it's my turn--

"My turn."

INSOMNIAC

Monday, January 21, 2008 7:31 AM

I have always been a fan of the line
"No power in the verse can stop me." The way that line is delivered is ominous and kinda nonchalant.

Even though it is not a quote, the look she gives Simon after he asks "Am I talking to Miranda now?" always makes me smile

Zoe: "Preacher, don't the Bible have some pretty specific things to say about killing?

Book: "Quite specific. It is, however, somewhat fuzzier on the subject of kneecaps."

PEULSAR5

Monday, January 21, 2008 7:35 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Insomniac:

Even though it is not a quote, the look she gives Simon after he asks "Am I talking to Miranda now?" always makes me smile

Definitly the way siblings look at each other when the other is being a "boob."

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Monday, January 21, 2008 7:37 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Insomniac:

Even though it is not a quote, the look she gives Simon after he asks "Am I talking to Miranda now?" always makes me smile

I think the scripted line for that response was "I'm not a double, dumbo." Her look carries it off, tho.
edit - asarian has the correction below.

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Tuesday, January 22, 2008 7:22 AM

Let's go again. - Bushwhacked.

BERNAERT

Tuesday, January 22, 2008 10:31 AM

I threw up on your bed. -War Stories

Jayne: "Shiny. Let's be bad guys."
Mal: "We're not gonna die. We can't die, Bendis. You know why? Because we are so...very...pretty. We are just too pretty for God to let us die."
Mal: "So no more runnin'. I aim to misbehave."
Mal: "No. They're not gonna see this comin'."

ASARIAN

Tuesday, January 22, 2008 10:51 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by jewelstaitefan:

I think the scripted line for that response was "I'm not a double, dumbo."

I think the scripted line for that response was: "I'm not a multiple, dumbo."

--
"Mei-mei, everything I have is right here." -- Simon Tam

STAESHA

Tuesday, January 22, 2008 11:25 AM

"also... i can kill you with my brain"

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Thursday, January 24, 2008 10:53 AM

"Miranda" - BDM.

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Friday, February 1, 2008 10:29 AM

Hell is coming to breakfast. - Ariel.

ASARIAN

Friday, February 1, 2008 11:28 AM

"Your toes are in the sand." -- Ariel

--
"Mei-mei, everything I have is right here." -- Simon Tam

ASARIAN

Friday, February 1, 2008 11:57 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by jewelstaitefan:

Hell is coming to breakfast. - Ariel.

Not to be nitpicky again, but that's NOT a River quote. I know it's in one of the shooting scripts, but in actuality River just does her "Two by two, hands of blue" thingy.

--
"Mei-mei, everything I have is right here." -- Simon Tam

ASARIAN

Friday, February 1, 2008 2:18 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Gapsule:

Everything from the Our Ms. Reynolds Deleted Scene is great (my favorite scene).

"Two by two, we want a match made, double, I love you"
I want to use this someday

"The captain took a wife"

"We'll take care of each other-I'll knit."

"Now we have to be married, we have a family in the way."

Famous quote no one has mentioned:
"Bullet in the brain pan-squish."

I wonder if we can quote her various screaming scenes.

Not to be the bad guy all the time, but just doing something right in absentia of doing something smart. :) The correct text is:

SIMON
What?!!

RIVER:
Two by two?! Everyone a match, a mate, a doppel. I love you (not 'double', but 'doppel', as in 'doppelgänger').

And, I'm sorry, but that whole "Now we have to be married, we have a family in the way." is nowhere in that deleted scene.

--
"Mei-mei, everything I have is right here." -- Simon Tam

FOREVERFIREFLYFAN

Friday, February 1, 2008 4:56 PM

Quote:

And, I'm sorry, but that whole "Now we have to be married, we have a family in the way." is nowhere in that deleted scene.

Yes it is, when she stuffs that pillow in her shirt. Those aren't the exact words, but it's something like that.

Also,
"Noah's arc is a problem"

"we may experience some slight turbulence and then - explode."
-Malcolm Raynolds
Serenity

ASARIAN

Friday, February 1, 2008 5:16 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by ForeverFireflyFan:
Quote:

And, I'm sorry, but that whole "Now we have to be married, we have a family in the way." is nowhere in that deleted scene.

Yes it is, when she stuffs that pillow in her shirt. Those aren't the exact words, but it's something like that.

Yeah, she says: "Now we have to be married, I'm in the family way." I guess I was being a bit petty about it. :) Shouldn't have said it's nowhere in the scene: it is, just not in that exact wording. Sometimes I go a little overboard. :)

--
"Mei-mei, everything I have is right here." -- Simon Tam

MRMGRAPHICS

Saturday, February 2, 2008 4:32 AM

+

Quote:
Originally posted by Rcat:
Quote:
Originally posted by Gapsule:

Famous quote no one has mentioned:
"Bullet in the brain pan-squish."

Ah yes, good one...One of her quotes that pops into my head on a somewhat regular basis...Morbid and creepifying but pretty poignet when your job makes you want to rip your hair out.

The above quote is so horrific, because you can feel how her madness and her pain are getting too great even for her. (Her face takes on a weird, morbid look of ecstacy when she says "squish" that just tears my heart out.)

I also vote for her entire soliloquy to Jubal Early.

And from the end of BDM: "I do. But I like to hear you say it."

The relationship between River and Mal is poignantly summed up in that line, and I always felt that relationship was one of the most beautiful in the whole story.

mrmgraphics
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MRINVADER1

Saturday, February 2, 2008 8:11 AM

They weren't cows inside. They were waiting to be, but they forgot. Now they see the sky and they remember what they are.

t4

GROTZ

Saturday, February 2, 2008 10:49 AM

I love it, everyone here loves River and the show and the movie. And everyone notices different thing. I have been through 45 post, smiling and warm in side. River is my favorite character of all time, actually. So it goes with out saying that every River quote is a pearl to me. The amazing thing is, my absolute favorite has not been mentioned yet. It is very small and out of context its not even great.

In the opening scene in the BDM:

Mal: "You know your role in all this, little one?
River:"Do you?"

The eye movement of Mal afterwards tops it off.

Also, it was the line that hooked me to ´verse. I am a Serenity then Firefly coaty

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Never kiss'em on the mouth.

FREEBROWNCOAT

Saturday, February 2, 2008 8:55 PM

That opening scene is SO full of meaning. The haunted, incriminating, judging look Summer gives Nathan is what you call outstanding acting! No to mention Joss getting so much emotion and relationship from such a subtle glance.

I really wish Joss would hae included the comment about the rocks in the BDM, where River is looking over the side of the mule saying how "the rocks have no order, completely random."

It's in the deleted scenes. It shows the mania and intellgence of Summer's character while telling the aidience her brain is truly somewhere else.

SPACEMANSPIFF76

Sunday, February 3, 2008 5:22 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by mrinvader1:
They weren't cows inside. They were waiting to be, but they forgot. Now they see the sky and they remember what they are.

t4

is it bad that what she said makes perfect sense to me?

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Monday, February 4, 2008 7:15 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Grotz:
I love it, everyone here loves River and the show and the movie. And everyone notices different thing. I have been through 45 post, smiling and warm in side. River is my favorite character of all time, actually. So it goes with out saying that every River quote is a pearl to me. The amazing thing is, my absolute favorite has not been mentioned yet. It is very small and out of context its not even great.

In the opening scene in the BDM:

Mal: "You know your role in all this, little one?
River:"Do you?"

The eye movement of Mal afterwards tops it off.

Also, it was the line that hooked me to ´verse. I am a Serenity then Firefly coaty

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Never kiss'em on the mouth.

I have always relished that line, but also feared it lost some meaning when the other line was removed - Simon: Do you understand what's going on? River: I'm the brains of the operation.

MRINVADER1

Monday, February 4, 2008 2:42 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by SpacemanSpiff76:
Quote:
Originally posted by mrinvader1:
They weren't cows inside. They were waiting to be, but they forgot. Now they see the sky and they remember what they are.

t4

is it bad that what she said makes perfect sense to me?

nope. when she said that the hair stood on the back of my neck too. but then that whole story 'verse is the best piece of action drama i've ever seen. every ep has those moments in abundance.

t4

ZZETTA13

Tuesday, February 5, 2008 11:47 PM

Can't say that it's a word for word quote, but the whole spill about her (River) leaving the ship and going with Jubal Early in OIS has me near tears every time.Quite embarrising for a 52 year old fellow to have to leave the room to keep everyone from seeing.

Z