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Firefly (2002)

Summer Glau: River Tam

Jaynestown

Firefly

Summer Glau credited as playing...

River Tam

Quotes6

  • Book: What are we up to, sweetheart?
  • River Tam: Fixing your Bible.
  • Book: I, um...
  • [alarmed]
  • Book: What?
  • River Tam: Bible's broken. Contradictions, false logistics - doesn't make sense.
  • [she's marked up the bible, crossed out passages and torn out pages]
  • 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.
  • [rips out page]
  • Zoë: River, honey, he's putting the hair away now.
  • River: Doesn't matter. It'll still be there... waiting.
  • [River is hiding after seeing Shepherd Book without his hair tied back]
  • River: You see, the snow on the roof is too heavy, you see, the ceiling will cave in. His brains are in terrible danger.
  • Book: River, please, why don't you come on out?
  • River: No! Can't. Too much hair.
  • Book: River, you don't fix the Bible.
  • River: It's broken. It doesn't make sense.
  • Book: It's not about making sense. It's about believing in something, and letting that belief be real enough to change your life. It's about faith. You don't fix faith, River. It fixes you.
  • River: I tore these out of your symbol and they turned into paper, but I wanna put them back, so...
  • River: Just keep walkin', preacher man.

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