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    "The Babylon Project was our last, best hope for peace: a
self-contained world five miles long located in neutral territory,
a place of commerce and diplomacy for a quarter of a million humans
and aliens, a shining beacon in space, all alone in the night.
    It was the dawn of the Third Age of Mankind, the year the Great
War came upon us all.
    This is the story of the last of the Babylon stations. The year
is 2259. The name of the place is Babylon 5."
        -- Commander John Sheridan's opening narrative, Season Two
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"The last time I make personal contact with a Minbari warship I sent
 it straight to Hell."
        -- Sheridan, "Points of Departure"
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"As far as I'm concerned, the transports can wait until the sun explodes.
 And if you're not happy with the seating arrangements, I will personally
 order your seats moved outside, down the hall, across the station, and
 into the fusion reactor. Am I absolutely, perfectly clear on this?"
        -- Ivanova, "Points of Departure"
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"I can only conclude that I'm paying off karma at a vastly accelerated rate."
        -- Ivanova, "Points of Departure"
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"It's amazing what two years on the rim can do to you."
        -- Sheridan, "Points of Departure"
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"Ambassador Delenn is in a cocoon."
'A cocoon? As in a moth or a butterfly?'
"Yes, sir. About yea high."
        --  Ivanova and Sheridan, "Points of Departure"
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"I'll say a prayer for him tonight."
'He's agnostic.'
"Then I'll say half a prayer."
        -- Ivanova and Dr. Franklin (re: Garibaldi), "Points of Departure"
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"The day that a man such as yourself is given a position of this
 importance is a dark day indeed. We lost many of our best warriors
 because of you. And we do not soon forget such things. If there is
 a doom on this station, it is because you brought it here."
        -- Hedronn (to Sheridan), "Points of Departure"
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"They're a prideful people and the BLACKSTAR was their flagship."
'That's why it make a good target.'
        -- Ivanova and Sheridan (re: the Minbari), "Points of Departure"
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"It was the only real victory we had in the whole damn war, and I am not
 about to apologize for it!"
        -- Sheridan (re: the BLACKSTAR), "Points of Departure"
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"If you are going to kill me, then do so. Otherwise I have considerable
 work to do."
        -- Lennier (to Kalain), "Points of Departure"
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"Everyone knows Minbari do not kill Minbari."
'Then why are you here?'
"Perhaps everyone is wrong."
        -- Kalain and Sheridan, "Points of Departure"
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"They fight bravely. They cannot harm our ships, but they continue to try."
'Whether they fight or not, they know they will die anyway. So really, is
    this bravery or simple desperation?'
"Perhaps they are the same thing."
        -- Delenn and Hedronn, "Points of Departure"
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"It is our belief that every generation of Minbari is reborn in each
 following generation. Remove those souls, and the whole suffers. We are
 diminished. Over the last two thousand years, there have been fewer
 Minbari born into each generation. And those who are born do not seem
 equal to those who came before. It almost as if our greater souls have
 been disappearing. At the Battle of the Line, we discovered where our
 souls were going. They were going to you. Minbari souls are being reborn,
 in part or in full, in human bodies."
        -- Lennier, "Points of Departure"
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'So you stopped the war in order to avoid harming your own souls?'
"Yes, but the Council knew that our people, and yours, were not ready for
    this information. It could unravel our entire society. So we could not
    tell our generals the reason for the surrender. We had all memory of
    the examination erased from Sinclair's mind, and we let him go. It has
    been our secret. Now it is yours. It must be kept."
        -- Lennier and Ivanova, "Points of Departure"
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"Then why break the silence now? Why tell us?"
'Because changes are coming. Commander Sinclair was the first. There
    will be more.'
        -- Ivanova and Lennier, "Points of Departure"
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"The war has already begun, Captain. All that remains now is honor
    and death."
        -- Deeron, "Points of Departure"
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"And I thought I was a pessimist."
        -- Ivanova, "Points of Departure"
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"I told them, Delenn, as I was ordered. I only wish I could have told
 them the rest - about the great enemy that is returning and the prophecy
 that the two sides of our spirit must unite against the darkness or be
 destroyed. They say it will take both of our races to stop the darkness.
 I am told that the Earthers will discover all this, soon enough, on their
 own. I hope they are right. Because if we are wrong, no one will survive
 our mistake."
        -- Lennier, "Points of Departure"
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"It was an early earth president, Abraham Lincoln, who best described our
 situation. 'The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy
 present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise to
 the occasion. We cannot escape history. We will be remembered in spite of
 ourselves. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in
 honor or dishonor, to the last generation. We shall nobly save, or meanly
 lose, or last best hope for Earth.'"
        -- Sheridan, "Points of Departure"
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"Ambassador Delenn remains indisposed."
'Indisposed? She's in a cocoon.'
"Yes."
        -- Lennier and Londo, "Revelations"
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"The Narns will never be able to prove it was done at your instigation.
 and, based on your promise to take care of it, your government accepts
 your responsibility without question or hesitation. Perfect symmetry.
 I believe that this little demonstration will bring you some very
 interesting propositions."
        -- Morden (to Londo), "Revelations"
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"Why don't you eliminate the entire Narn homeworld while you're at it?"
'One thing at a time, Ambassador. One thing at a time.'
        -- Londo and Morden, "Revelations"
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"Weep for the future, Na'Toth, Weep for us all."
        -- G'Kar, "Revelations"
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"I have looked into the darkness, Na'Toth. You cannot do that and ever be
 quite the same again. When you told me about the destruction of our base
 in Quadrant 37, I knew that only a major power could attempt an assault
 of that magnitude, but none of the governments here could have done it,
 which left only two possibilities: a new race, or an old race - a very
 old race.
        -- G'Kar, "Revelations"
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"G'Quan spoke of a great war long ago against an enemy so terrible, it nearly
 overwhelmed the stars themselves. G'Quan said that before that enemy was
 thrown down, it dwelled in a system at the rim of known space."
        -- G'Kar, "Revelations"
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"On dark deserted worlds, where there should be no life, where no living
 thing has walked in over a thousand years, something is moving, gathering
 its forces, quietly, quietly...hoping to go unnoticed. We must warn the
 others, Na'Toth. After a thousand years, the darkness has come again."
        -- G'Kar, "Revelations"
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"What's up, Doc?"
        -- Garibaldi, "Revelations"
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"Mollari, the grievances between my people and yours will never be resolved
    except with Centauri blood. Accept that as a given."
'Well, its good to know we're appreciated.'
        -- G'Kar and Londo, "Revelations"
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"I am not ill, doctor. What I have become, what I suffer, requires you alone."
        -- Delenn (to Dr. Franklin), "Revelations"
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"...which leads me to believe that the ancient race described in our holy
 books may have returned. If true, this holds grave danger for all of us."
        -- G'Kar, "Revelations"
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"And if someone is living there?"
'Then all our races stand on the end of extinction.'
        -- Sheridan and G'Kar (re: Z'ha'dum), "Revelations"
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"Look if I were you, I'd start talking straight because right now
    you're in a whole world of trouble."
'You don't even know what trouble is... but you're gonna find out...
    real soon.'
        -- Garibaldi and Jack, "Revelations"
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"They put you in an airlock, seal it, and then open the space door. You
 spend the next five minutes chewing vacuum until your lungs turn
 inside-out, your eyeballs freeze, and your heart explodes. It's the
 worst kind of death you can imagine. And when that day comes, I'll be
 there to push the button."
        -- Garibaldi (re: spacing), "Revelations"
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"Be seeing you."
        -- Garibaldi's aide/Jack, "Revelations"
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"When a warship jumps to normal space, it's briefly out of contact because
 of the energy drain. It might have been attacked during that period. But
 that couldn't happen unless...unless they knew the ship was coming and were
 waiting for it. But no one knew, except..."
        -- G'Kar, "Revelations"
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"Ambassador Sinclair has been allowed to live on my world as an act of
 good faith, to create a greater understanding between Minbari and humans.
 In return, I have undergone this change with the blessings of my
 government, so that I may become a bridge between our worlds, in the hope
 that we will never know war between us again."
        -- Delenn, "Revelations"
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"I trust her as much as I trust any telepath, but she's still Psi Corps."
        -- Garibaldi (re: Talia Winters), "Revelations"
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"Now Jack didn't admit anything, but he did say that the Homeguard wasn't
 behind President Santiago's assassination. But what if it was the Psi
 Corps? What if they wanted someone in office who was sympathetic to the
 Corps? Right before Earth Force 1 exploded, the Vice-President got off at
 Mars, saying he had the flu. Pretty convenient, isn't it?"
        -- Garibaldi, "Revelations"
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"Things have changed, Na'Toth, and they will never be the same. But we are
 Narns. We have learned to cope with change - to triumph in the face of
 adversity. We will overcome this as well. We have no other choice."
        -- G'Kar, "Revelations"
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"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.
 Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.
 The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere,
 The ceremony of innocence is drowned.
 And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
 Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?"
        -- G'Kar, "Revelations"
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"Gets cold up here sometimes, doesn't it, Lieutenant Commander?"
'Yes sir. It does indeed.'
        -- Sheridan and Ivanova, "Revelations"
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"We used to have them back home long ago. They use science to achieve the
 effect of magic. I haven't seen one in years. They almost never travel.
 They don't like to leave their places of power. To see even one of them
 is a rare thing. To see more than one at a time is considered a very
 bad omen."
[3 mages walk by]
"Three...this is definitely not good."
        -- Londo (re: technomages), "The Geometry of Shadows"
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"The universe doesn't give you any points for doing things that are easy."
        -- Sheridan to Garibaldi, "The Geometry of Shadows"
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"You can start by helping me understand the precise nature of conflict
    between the two sides that you've set up."
'Green.'
`Purple.`
"No, I understand that there are two factions, but what is your point of
    contention? Where do you disagree with each other?"
`Purple.`
'Green.'
        -- Ivanova, Purple Drazi, and Green Drazi, "The Geometry of Shadows"
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"You don't frighten easily."
'I work for Ambassador Mollari. After a while nothing bothers you.'
        -- Elric and Vir, "The Geometry of Shadows"
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"Do not try the patience of wizards, for they are suttle and quick to anger."
        -- Elric to Vir, "The Geometry of Shadows"
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"If it gets too bad I'll just gnaw it off at the ankle."
        -- Ivanova, "The Geometry of Shadows"
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"Every day you here create greater miracles than the burning bush."
'Maybe. But God was there first and He didn't need solar batteries and a
    fusion reactor to do it.'
"Perhaps, perhaps not."
        -- Elric and Sheridan, "The Geometry of Shadows"
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"We are dreamers, shapers, singers, and makers. We study the mysteries
    of laser and circuit, crystal and scanner, holographic demons and
    invocations of equations. These are the tools we employ, and we know
    many things."
'Such as?'
"The true secrets. The important things. Fourteen words to make someone fall
    in love with you forever, seven words to make them go without pain, how
    to say good-bye to a friend who is dying, how to be poor, how to be
    rich, how to rediscover dreams when the world has stolen them from you.
        -- Elric and Sheridan, "The Geometry of Shadows"
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"There is a storm coming, a black and terrible storm. We would not have our
 knowledge lost, or used to ill purpose. From this place, we will launch
 ourselves into the stars. With luck, you will never see our kind again in
 your lifetime. I know you have your orders, Captain. Detain us if you wish,
 but I cannot tell you where we're going. I can only ask you to trust us."
        -- Elric, "The Geometry of Shadows"
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"Wait a minute. You're saying just because I'm holding this right now, I'm
    green leader? But I'm human."
'Rules of combat older than contact with other races. Did not mention
    aliens. Rules change caught up in committee. Not come through yet.'
        -- Ivanova and Green Drazi, "The Geometry of Shadows"
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"I know this place and everyone on it intimately."
'I beg your pardon.'
        -- Garibaldi and Ivanova, "The Geometry of Shadows"
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S: "So in other words, you're perfect for the job because you're paranoid
   and compulsive."
F: "Or compulsively paranoid."
G: "Who told you to say that?"
        -- Sheridan, Dr. Franklin, and Garibaldi, "The Geometry of Shadows"
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"I'm afraid you're going to have to spend the rest of your life paying for
 your mistakes."
        -- Elric (to Londo), "The Geometry of Shadows"
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"You are touched by darkness, Ambassador. I see it as a blemish that will
 grow with time. I could warn you, of course, but you would not listen. I
 could kill you, but someone would take your place. So, I do the only
 thing I can. I go."
        -- Elric (to Londo), "The Geometry of Shadows"
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"As I look at you, Ambassador Mollari, I see a great hand reaching out of
    the stars. The hand is your hand and I hear sounds - the sounds of
    billions of people calling your name."
'My followers?'
"Your victims."
        -- Elric and Londo, "The Geometry of Shadows"
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"There's the story she told us, but then the Minbari never tell you the
 whole truth."
        -- Sheridan, "A Distant Star"
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"Things can get kind of weird out on the rim, too. It's funny. You never
 know what you're going to find when you look over the edge of what's
 known and into what's not."
        -- Maynard, "A Distant Star"
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"I am more 'one of us' at this moment, than I have ever been. More than you
 will ever know."
        -- Delenn (to Teronn), "A Distant Star"
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"Understanding is not required. Only obedience."
        -- Delenn (to Teronn), "A Distant Star"
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"Figures. All my life, I've fought against imperialism. Now, suddenly, I
     *am* the expanding Russian frontier."
'But with very nice borders.'
        -- Ivanova and Dr. Franklin, "A Distant Star"
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"The adventure is out there, Jack. Man has to go meet it."
'Well, sometimes it comes to you. Wait for it Johnny.'
        -- Sheridan and Maynard, "A Distant Star"
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"If the primates that we came from had known that someday politicians
 would come out of the...the gene pool, they'd a stayed up in the trees
 and written evolution off as a bad idea. Hell, I always thought the
 opposable thumb was overrated."
        -- Sheridan, "A Distant Star"
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"An old friend of mine once quoted me a ancient Egyptian blessing: 'God
 be between you and harm, and all the empty places where you must walk.'"
        -- Sheridan, "A Distant Star"
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"The universe puts us in places where we can learn. They are never easy
     places, But they are right. Wherever we are is the right place at the
     right time. The pain that sometimes comes. It is part of the process
     of constantly being born."
'You sound like you've been doing some thinking about this on your own.'
"Perhaps. We are both, I suppose, going through transitions. But the
    universe knows what it's doing."
        -- Delenn and Sheridan, "A Distant Star"
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"I will tell you a great secret, Captain.  Perhaps the greatest of all
 time. The molecules of your body are the same molecules that make up
 this station, and the nebula outside, that burn inside the stars
 themselves. We are starstuff, we are the universe, made manifest, trying
 to figure itself out. As we have both learned, sometimes the universe
 requires a change of perspective."
        -- Delenn (to Sheridan), "A Distant Star"
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Z: "As for what it was, I don't know. There was just this feeling that
   something dark and dangerous had gone by. You know that feeling like
   somebody just walked on your grave? That's the only way I can describe
   it."
M: "This feeling that something's out there, you just never forget it."
Z: "I want to know what it is."
I: "I'm sure we'll find out one of these days."
        -- Warren Keffer, Captain Jack Maynard, and Ivanova, "A Distant Star"
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"You think that's good, wait until dessert."
'Well now, wait a minute. I didn't authorize dessert.'
"No? Then you can't have any."
'What is it?'
"Doesn't matter, you're not getting any."
        -- Garibaldi and Dr. Franklin, "A Distant Star"
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"Ever had a long talk with Ambassador Delenn, Commander?"
'From time to time. Why?'
"She and the universe seem to have a special relationship."
'Don't we all?'
        -- Ivanova and Sheridan, "A Distant Star"
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"Where are you? There you are! There you are! I see you..."
        -- Amis (while looking out a port), "The Long Dark"
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"Hear me O Lord and the rest of you miserable sinners and you non-humanoid
 types. Judgment Day is coming and it don't care what you look like. And
 I have seen it. An army of darkness, soldiers of the devil, something like
 that. We're all in great danger. A pox upon this station."
        -- Amis, "The Long Dark"
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"I have walked in the valley of -"
'Good! Keep on walking.'
        -- Amis and G'Kar, "The Long Dark"
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"You, with the hair."
'Oh, jeez.'
        -- Amis and Londo, "The Long Dark"
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"Were you in the war?"
'No, I missed it.'
"He didn't."
'How do you know?'
"I've had that same dream."
        -- Garibaldi and Guard, "The Long Dark"
%%
"You were about to accuse the Centauri Ambassador of being in league with
 the devil. Which might not be far from the truth."
        -- Garibaldi (to Amis), "The Long Dark"
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"You were standing in the middle of the plaza yelling that the day of
    judgment was coming."
'Did it?'
"Not that I know, but I may have missed a staff meeting."
        -- Garibaldi and Amis, "The Long Dark"
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"Lousy way to die, huh?"
'Last I checked there weren't too many good ways.'
        -- Garibaldi and Sheridan, "The Long Dark"
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"It's gonna take a lot more than a hundred years to evole a better human."
        -- Dr. Franklin, "The Long Dark"
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"Take my advice and go back to the time you came from. The future isn't
 what it used to be."
        -- G'Kar, "The Long Dark"
%%
"You're all going to die. A soldier of darkness has come on that ship
 from the past. I have seen it. Don't close your eyes. Don't sleep.
 It'll find you."
        -- Amis, "The Long Dark"
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 "She has brought something evil from the past...a soldier of darkness."
        -- Markab Ambassador, "The Long Dark"
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"The forces of darkness do not move openly. They work through others. Use
 others. When the darkness was defeated long ago, they scattered, hid
 themselves away in secret places, and waited. Now, the dark hand is
 reaching out and recalling them from their sleep."
        -- Markab Ambassador, "The Long Dark"
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"Evil sometimes wears a pleasant face."
        -- Markab Ambassador, "The Long Dark"
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"We set up camp in old ruins of some kind. As far as we knew, it was a dead
 world. It came in the night, during a storm. We heard nothing, saw nothing.
 It came right through the walls, like a hot wind. The first man died, just
 meters from me - never even screamed. We ran... we ran. For a second, I
 thought I lost it, and then I saw it. Standing in the middle of a ball of
 lightning. It looked like it had come straight from hell."
        -- Amis, "The Long Dark"
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"How did you survive?"
'I didn't! It kept me alive. As a snack.'
        -- Garibaldi and Amis, "The Long Dark"
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"You got a plan?"
'Let's try not to get killed.'
"Brilliant."
        -- Ivanova and Sheridan, "The Long Dark"
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"Don't make promises life won't let you keep."
        -- Mariah, "The Long Dark"
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"You said the ship was reprogrammed to a new destination. So where was
    it going?"
'It was heading for the rim. Toward the exact place where Ambassador
    G'Kar told us an ancient enemy was gathering its forces.'
        -- Sheridan and Ivanova, "The Long Dark"
%%
"Something's going on, Commander."
'I know. And between you and me. It's scaring the hell out of me.'
        -- Sheridan and Ivanova, "The Long Dark"
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"With all due respect Senator. My duties as commander of B5 don't
    include spying on civilians."
'These are volatile times, Captain. Practicality is more important
    than principles, if lives are to be saved. I'll expect to hear
    from you soon.'
        -- Sheridan and Senator Elise Voudreau, "A Spider in the Web"
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"We finally broke the language barrier and introduced ourselves. And I was
 invited aboard their ship. It was incredible. I'd never seen so much space
 on a starship and the T'Kar themselves. So unlike any other species we'd
 encountered. Spent two days with them and what I learned in that time made
 me realize just how wondrous this galaxy of ours really is."
        -- Sheridan, "A Spider in the Web."
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"Taro Isogi spent his life improving the lives of others. He built a business
 based on that principle, and he never broke a rule or harmed another to do
 it. Mars was his dream, Captain, now he's been murdered for it, and you're
 trying to cast the blame on him."
        -- Talia Winters, "A Spider in the Web"
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T: "I'm also tired and I hurt. May I go back to my quarters now?"
S: "Yes, I'll arrange for an escort."
[before Sheridan can call]
G: "One escort at your service."
        -- Talia Winters, Sheridan, and Garibaldi, "A Spider in the Web"
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"You know how I feel about telepaths."
'Do I ever. You threw one out of a third story window in Io.'
"There was an ample pool below the window."
'I'll assume you knew that.'
        -- Ivanova and Sheridan, "A Spider in the Web"
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"Telepaths are gifted and cursed in ways I can never hope to understand.
    But they're still human beings - good, bad, or indifferent. No...I
    trust in individuals, not organizations."
'Then you may trust Miss Winters.'
        -- Sheridan and Ivanova, "A Spider in the Web"
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"Tea just happens to be my third favorite thing in the universe."
        -- Garibaldi, "A Spider in the Web"
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"The theory was to 'hard-wire' the subject's brain with a computer
 intelligence that kept the brain functional while the body was repaired.
 Then, using telepathic deep scan, the subject was fixated on the moment
 of his death, shutting down all conscious thought. The computer takes
 complete control, while the subject is dying over and over again in his
 subconscious."
        -- Sheridan (re: Project Lazarus), "A Spider in the Web"
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"Ours now. All ours."
        -- Thirteen/Psi Cop, "A Spider in the Web"
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"Mars will never be free until the sands run red with Earther blood."
        -- Abel Horn, "A Spider in the Web"
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"For the past six years, there have been rumors about a...rogue agency
 operating deep inside Earth Gov. A dirty tricks squad dealing in black
 projects and Star Chamber justice. It took me over three years just to
 get the name: Bureau 13. And the man who gave me that name died soon
 after. I am convinced they exist and that they are behind this
 incident."
        -- Sheridan, "A Spider in the Web"
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"There is a spider in the web, Mr. Garibaldi, and I intend to find it...
 and kill it."
        -- Sheridan, "A Spider in the Web"
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"Thirteen."
'Report from Babylon 5 control mission only partly successful. Isogi
    terminated but unit was destroyed before he could leave station
    for Mars.'
"Is the bureau at hazard?"
'Control does not believe so.'
"Belief is not enough. He is to follow up until he is certain. Thirteen out."
        -- Thirteen/Psi Cop and Computer Voice, "A Spider in the Web"
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"I'm here to pick up some women."
'You'll have better luck at bars.'
        -- Vir and Garibaldi, "Soul Mates"
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"You know him?"
'Only in the most unpleasant sense. I was married to him.'
        -- Garibaldi and Talia Winters (re: Matthew Stoner), "Soul Mates"
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"I won't bite, Vir."
'With all due respect, madam. That's not what I've heard.'
"Alright, that *one* time."
'It was...it was twice.'
        -- Timov and Vir, "Soul Mates"
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"Daggair! My, what a surprise."
'A pleasant one?'
"I wouldn't go that far."
        -- Timov and Daggair, "Soul Mates"
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"Timov, Timov. Why do you always try to draw me into your little verbal
    fencing matches?"
'Because I don't have a real sword handy.'
        -- Daggair and Timov, "Soul Mates"
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"How long were you married?"
'Just long enough to realize it was a mistake.'
        -- Sheridan and Talia Winters, "Soul Mates"
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"People seem to be implying that I shouldn't get too comfortable."
'Oh nonsense. It's not as if anyone expects you to...oh...vanish overnight
    under mysterious circumstances to a strange Minbari post. Why that would
    be unprecedented in this station's history.'
        -- Sheridan and G'Kar, "Soul Mates"
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"Ah, my good Captain Sheridan, all settled in?"
'All settled, Ambassador.'
        -- Londo and Sheridan, "Soul Mates"
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"And my dear G'Kar, how are you this glorious day?"
'We're in a space station, Ambassador. One day is much like another.'
        -- Londo and G'Kar, "Soul Mates"
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"Who does Londo think he is to keep us sitting about?"
'He probably thinks he's our husband and that we as dutiful wives will
    wait with breathless anticipation for his arrival.'
        -- Timov and Daggair, "Soul Mates"
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"Your problem Timov, is that you've never known your place."
'My place? You once threatened to break a vase over his head.'
"Well now, that was the impetuousness of youth."
'That was last month.'
        -- Daggair and Timov, "Soul Mates"
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"Where have you been?"
'Affairs of State, my dear.'
"State of inebriation I'd wager."
        -- Timov and Londo, "Soul Mates"
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"The secret of our marriage's success, Londo, is our lack of communication."
        -- Timov, "Soul Mates"
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"Now, the Emperor is a busy fellow, of course, no time to shop. Unlike my
    beloved wives who always find the time to run up my credit accounts.
    In any event, he wished to give me a gift in honor of my service to our
    people and the gift he gave me was...any one wish within his power to
    grant."
'And what was your wish, my sweet?'
"A *divorce*! An easement from the arranged marriages to my three wives."
        -- Londo and Daggair, "Soul Mates"
%%
"So if I'm feeling insecure, hugging you will make me feel better?"
        -- Matthew Stoner (to Garibaldi), "Soul Mates"
%%
"I can help you with the big words if you're having trouble."
        -- Matthew Stoner (to Garibaldi), "Soul Mates"
%%
"Would you like me to tell you all about her? What she likes to hear. Where
    she likes to be touched."
'Don't push it.'
"The little noises she makes. Does she cry out or sigh softly."
        -- Matthew Stoner and Garibaldi (re: Talia Winters), "Soul Mates"
%%
"I'll be keeping an eye on you."
'Use both eyes, you'll need them.'
        -- Garibaldi and Matthew Stoner, "Soul Mates"
%%
"Mariel is drawn to men of power in that same way. But trust me, she
 burns them."
        -- Londo (to Sheridan), "Soul Mates"
%%
"Londo, I'm not like the others, you know that. I've always been
    forgiving, passionate. Goodness knows I've been passionate. Noone
    can compare to you."
'And how many opportunities have you taken for comparison?'
        -- Mariel and Londo, "Soul Mates"
%%
"They're merely expressing their feelings for me."
'I can do that." [Timov slaps Londo]
        -- Londo and Timov, "Soul Mates"
%%
"You haven't changed."
'You have. You've devolved.'
        -- Londo and Timov, "Soul Mates"
%%
"I'm tired of...of learning things about people I don't want to know.
 I'm tired of having them shrink away from me because of what I might
 find out. And I'm tired of being a part of an organization that scares
 the hell out of me."
        -- Talia Winters, "Soul Mates"
%%
"A deck of cards from my dear friend Lennier."
'And I marked them exactly as you requested.'
        -- Londo and Lennier, "Soul Mates"
%%
"Hey, how about I call you an idiot in public and you can convict me
 for revealing state secrets."
        -- Matthew Stoner (to Garibaldi), "Soul Mates"
%%
"It may interest you to know that Londo and I do have one thing in common.
    The same blood type."
'Well, why didn't you tell me this before.'
"I was deciding what to do about it."
        -- Timov and Dr. Franklin, "Soul Mates"
%%
"You may have your transfusion, Doctor, on one condition: He must never
 know I did this. I don't think either of us could stand the awkwardness
 of false gratitude."
        -- Timov (to Dr. Franklin), "Soul Mates"
%%
"Londo, do you know where you are?"
'Either in Medlab or in hell. Either way the decor needs work.'
        -- Dr. Franklin and Londo, "Soul Mates"
%%
"Stick it."
'How odd. And I didn't even know we were married.'
        -- Dr. Franklin and Londo, "Soul Mates"
%%
"I warn you Mariel, do not be overconfident. If I were married to Londo
    Mollari I'd be concerned."
'G'Kar, if you were married to Londo Mollari, we'd all be concerned.'
        -- G'Kar and Mariel, "Soul Mates"
%%
"Londo, you're making a big mistakes."
'A huge mistake.'
`Well, it won't be my first. Actually, it will be my fourth.`
        -- Daggair, Mariel, and Londo, "Soul Mates"
%%
"Alright Londo, why did you choose to keep me as your wife and not them?
    I've made no pretense of affection for you. I find your recent actions
    contemptible. I'll never love you. At best I'll tolerate you. And I'll
    never be what you want me to be. Why me?"
'Because with you I will always know where I stand.'
        -- Timov and Londo, "Soul Mates"
%%
"Do you have any idea why I've suddenly started getting these odd cramps?"
        -- Delenn (to Ivanova), "Soul Mates"
%%
"You were raised by the Corps, clothed by the Corps. We are your father
 and your mother."
        -- Bester, "A Race Through Dark Places"
%%
"It's damn ironic, isn't it? The Corps got started because we were afraid
    of telepaths and now they're victims of our own fears. We took away
    every right they had and shoved them into a big, black box called
    Psi-Corps. Now, look at them. Black uniforms, jack boots, giving
    orders. Some days they scare the hell out of me."
'Yeah, if you ask me, we created our own monster. Maybe we deserve it.'
        -- Garibaldi and Sheridan, "A Race Through Dark Places"
%%
"You're so cute when you're worried about investigating someone close
 to you."
        -- Ivanova (to Garibaldi), "A Race Through Dark Places"
%%
"I think such creatures are an attempt by the universe to make sure that
 we never take ourselves too seriously."
        -- Delenn (re: cats), "A Race Through Dark Places"
%%
"We believe that no race can be truly intelligent without laughter."
        -- Delenn, "A Race Through Dark Places"
%%
"He's been in my mind twice today. Why isn't he seeing this? Was that
 the other part of the gift?"
        -- Talia Winters, "A Race Through Dark Places"
%%
"How many Minbari does it take to screw in a light bulb?"
'I don't know, sir. How many Minbari does it take to screw in a light bulb?'
"None. They always surrender right before they finish the job and they
    never tell you why."
        -- Sheridan and Ivanova, "A Race Through Dark Places"
%%
"Knock, knock."
'Who's there?'
"Kosh."
'Kosh who?'
"Gesundheit."
        -- Sheridan and Ivanova, "A Race Through Dark Places"
%%
"Were you like this when you were married?"
'Huh? Yeah.'
"The woman was a saint."
        -- Ivanova and Sheridan, "A Race Through Dark Places"
%%
"The Corps is here to protect you."
'I don't believe that and neither do you.'
"That's not true."
'It will be. Very soon. You're almost there.'
"Almost where? What do you want from me?"
'I want you...to understand.'
        -- Talia Winters and Lurker, "A Race Through Dark Places"
%%
"Smooth. You're getting good at this. Keep working on it. One of these
 days I might even be convinced that you're human."
        -- Garibaldi (to Bester), "A Race Through Dark Places"
%%
"Being in the Corps served a function long ago. Now its something else.
 I know it, you know it."
        -- Lurker (to Talia Winters), "A Race Through Dark Places"
%%
"Back on Earth I heard things. The kind of things you're not supposed to
 hear about. Genetic manipulation, breeding telepaths against their will,
 so called relocation camps for rogue telepaths that aren't much better
 than concentration camps."
        -- Dr. Franklin, "A Race Through Dark Places"
%%
"I trust my staff, but the Psi-Corps has a knack for intimidation."
        -- Dr. Franklin, "A Race Through Dark Places"
%%
"You want to keep us frightened and isolated. Not just from normals, but
 from each other. That's the real reason we wear gloves, isn't it? To
 keep us apart. But what happens when the gloves come off?"
        -- Talia Winters (to Bester), "A Race Through Dark Places"
%%
"If Bester scans you he'll... Can you keep him out?"
'I think so. Jason's little gift.'
"He gave you more than you know. What we did back there...shouldn't have
    worked. Not with that Psi-Cop. You tipped the balance. I felt it
    when we were joined. You're more than you think you are."
'Then what am I?'
"The future."
        -- Lurker and Talia Winters, "A Race Through Dark Places"
%%
"Captain, either you snore or last night we had a HELL of a breach
    in the hull."
        -- Ivanova (to Sheridan), "A Race Through Dark Places"
%%
"I hope you'll give some thought to what I asked the other day. I was
 informed that Sheridan would be supportive of the Corps. I'm...I'm
 disappointed by his attitude. You won't have a problem keeping an eye
 on him, will you?"
        -- Bester (to Talia Winters), "A Race Through Dark Places"
%%
"When you get as old as I, the trappings of status are not as important
 as they used to be. Sometimes I think our women are right when they
 shave their heads and rise above these things.
        -- Centauri Emperor, "The Coming of Shadows"
%%
"This conversation, it makes you uncomfortable?"
'Yes, yes it does.'
"Then for once we have something in common."
        -- Londo and Vir, "The Coming of Shadows"
%%
"I've never seen a Vorlon before. In or out of its shell. But over the
 centuries we've sent many expeditions into Vorlon space. None of them
 returned. Ah...I've head many strange stories about them."
        -- Centauri Emperor, "The Coming of Shadows"
%%
"The past tempts us, the present confuses us, the future frightens us,
 and our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast, terrible
 in between."
        -- Centauri Emperor, "The Coming of Shadows"
%%
"No, no. I'll go and I'll bring him back. And some day I'm going to remind
    you of this conversation. And maybe then...then you'll understand."
'I understand...just fine. By this time tomorrow, we will be at war with
    the Narn. May the Great Maker forgive me.'
        -- Vir and Londo, "The Coming of Shadows"
%%
"Mollari! YOU! I'm going to get you...a drink."
        -- G'Kar, "The Coming of Shadows"
%%
"It's not every day I have a revelation, you know."
        -- G'Kar (to Londo), "The Coming of Shadows"
%%
"My job on the Minbari homeworld is more than just representing Earth.
 The President doesn't know about that part yet and I don't think it
 would be wise of you to tell him. There's a great darkness coming,
 Michael. Some of the Minbari have been waiting for it a long time."
        -- Sinclair, "The Coming of Shadows"
%%
"The bearer of this message is one of my rangers. Some are Minbari, most
 are humans. They've been drawn here to learn to work together and
 prepare for the fight ahead."
        -- Sinclair, "The Coming of Shadows"
%%
"Their job, for now, is to patrol the frontier, to listen, to watch, and
 return with reports too sensitive to trust to regular channels. They
 are my eyes and ears. Where you see them, you see me."
        -- Sinclair, "The Coming of Shadows"
%%
"Stay close to the Vorlon and watch out for the Shadows. They move when
 you're not looking at them."
        -- Sinclair, "The Coming of Shadows"
%%
"How will this end?"
'In fire.'
        -- Centauri Emperor and Kosh, "The Coming of Shadows"
%%
"He said: 'Continue. Take my people back...to the stars'"
        -- Londo (re: Centauri Emperor's last words),
           "The Coming of Shadows"
%%
"Mollari, what did he say...really."
'He said...that we are both damned.'
"Well, it's a small enough price to pay for immortality."
        -- Refa and Londo, "The Coming of Shadows"
%%
"I'm surprised. You could have asked to be named to the royal court. It
    would have put you in a position to become emperor yourself some
    day. That's what you want, isn't it?"
'No. I have no desire to be emperor. No, I prefer to work...behind the
    scenes. The reward is nearly as great and the risk far, far less.'
        -- Vir and Londo, "The Coming of Shadows"
%%
"Leave it to the infantry to ruin a guy's morning."
        -- Garibaldi, "GROPOS"
%%
"I had an Alfredo Garibaldi under my command during the Dilgar invasion.
    Excellent soldier."
'That was my dad.'
"So much for genetics."
        -- General Franklin and Garibaldi, "GROPOS"
%%
"Life is life, whether it's wrapped in skin, scales, or feathers. Now
 if you respected these beings instead of constantly trying to murder
 them, you'd appreciate that!"
        -- Dr. Franklin (to his father), "GROPOS"
%%
"We are all slaves to our histories. If there is to be a...bright future,
    we must learn to break those chains."
'The only thing you can count on the Narn and Centauri to do is break
    each other's heads.'
        -- Delenn and Garibaldi, "GROPOS"
%%
"There's only one truth about war: people die. Killing is part of a
 soldier's job. We can't deny it. We can only live with it and hope
 the reasons for doing it are justified."
        -- Sheridan, "GROPOS"
%%
"Lennier, for the first time I feel very much...alone."
'No, never alone, Delenn. Never alone.'
        -- Delenn and Lennier, "All Alone in the Night"
%%
"Lennier, listen to me. The council holds me in disfavor right now. I
    do not want that to spill over onto you."
'I'm not worried about that.'
        -- Delenn and Lennier, "All Alone in the Night"
%%
"Youth is both foolish and vulnerable. This is not a wise thing for you
    to do."
'Probably not.
        -- Delenn and Lennier, "All Alone in the Night"
%%
'If you continue in this behavior you'll just make the other pilots
    feel inadequate.'
        -- Ivanova (to Sheridan), "All Alone in the Night"
%%
"Summoned, I take the place that has been prepared for me. I am Grey. I
 stand between the candle and the star. We are Grey. We stand between the
 darkness and the light."
        -- Delenn, "All Alone in the Night"
%%
"Where you walk, I will walk. I have sworn myself to your side."
'You do not know, you can not know what you're saying.'
"Yes, I do. Come what may Delenn, I will not leave your side while I
    am still alive."
        -- Lennier and Delenn, "All Alone in the Night"
%%
"Very soon now I will be going into darkness and fire. I do not know if I
 am fated to walk out again. If it is your choice to come with me, then
 I could not wish for a better, or braver, companion."
        -- Delenn (to Lennier), "All Alone in the Night"
%%
"Shh...Do you know who I am?"
'The man in between is searching for you.'
"You are the hand."
        -- Ivanova and Garibaldi (to Sheridan in his dream),
           "All Alone in the Night"
%%
"Why are you here?"
'We were never away. For the first time, your mind is quiet enough to
    hear me.'
"Why am I here?"
'You have always been here.'
        -- Sheridan and Kosh (in Sheridan's dream),
           "All Alone in the Night"
%%
"You have always been here."
        -- Kosh (to Sheridan), "All Alone in the Night"
%%
"But what else could I do? When you have been crushed beneath the wheel
 for as long as we have, revenge occupies your every waking thought.
 When everything had been taken away from us, hate kept us alive."
        -- G'Kar, "Acts of Sacrifice"
%%
"Are you incapable of speech?"
'Heh, no, of course not. But it would represent a loss of face for me to
    communicate with an inferior race. Before I can speak with you
    directly, I must determine if your species is worthy. Yes. If so, we
    may even allow others of my kind to honor you with their presence.'
"Well, isn't that wonderful."
        -- Ivanova and Taq/Correlilmurzon, "Acts of Sacrifice"
%%
"I wanted respect, instead I have turned into a wishing well with legs."
        -- Londo, "Acts of Sacrifice"
%%
"Strange notions. Yeah, I got your strange notions right here."
        -- Dr. Franklin, "Acts of Sacrifice"
%%
"Mr. Garibaldi, a moment of joy in a lifetime of sorrow. Take it while
 you can."
        -- Londo, "Acts of Sacrifice"
%%
"I want you to be happy. I want me to be happy. I want you to be happy for
 me and me to be happy for you. Is that so much to ask around here?"
        -- Londo (to Garibaldi), "Acts of Sacrifice"
%%
"Why is everyone here walking around like they're afraid of me?"
'Cause maybe we are.'
        -- Londo and Garibaldi, "Acts of Sacrifice"
%%
"In my time here, very few people on this station have listened to me or
 taken me seriously...until recently. Now I have friends I never knew were
 there. But you, you always listened to me. You were always kind to me,
 even when you had nothing to gain. And now that things are changing and
 I look around for someone to share my good fortune with, there is noone.
 Except you, my good, close friend Garibaldi."
        -- Londo, "Acts of Sacrifice"
%%
"We call them Lurkers and yes, humans mostly. They came to Babylon 5 in
 search of new lives, new opportunities. Sometimes it happens and
 sometimes it doesn't. When it doesn't, quite often they don't have enough
 money for a return ticket. So then end up getting small jobs here and
 there. When those go dry, then end up moving into the undeveloped parts
 of the station. Downbelow.
        -- Ivanova, "Acts of Sacrifice"
%%
"Ambassador, I've learned the hard way that governments deal in matters
 of convention, not conscience. If they fall behind, it is up to the
 rest of us to make up the difference. If we don't, who will?"
        -- Sheridan (to Delenn), "Acts of Sacrifice"
%%
"Tradition is important to my culture. Our important agreements are
    symbolic with coming together in perfect union."
'Well, this certainly qualifies. The Captain felt very strongly about
    making this deal happen.'
"Then we will conclude this deal in our traditional manner, we will
    have sex."
'Sex?!'
"It is necessary to finalize the agreement."
        -- Correlilmurzon and Ivanova, "Acts of Sacrifice"
%%
"This couldn't possibly be any worse. 'Do whatever you have to' he tells
 me. But nobody told me this involved having sex with an alien."
        -- Ivanova, "Acts of Sacrifice"
%%
"Well, you could put a bag over his head and do it for Babylon 5."
        -- Dr. Franklin (to Ivanova), "Acts of Sacrifice"
%%
"Boom! Shubba-lubba-lubba. Boom! Shubba-lubba-lubba. Hey there, hey there,
    three bags full. You come here often? Yes, I do! Dinner!
    Shubba-lubba-lubba. Drinks! Shubba-lubba-lubba. Kiss. Kiss. Kiss. Kiss.
    Kiss. Grab. How do you like it so far?"
'Well, I...'
"I slept with you the other night. You didn't call, you didn't write.
    I think you did it just for spite! Oh... yes... Oh, yes! Oh, yes!
    OH! YES!! Tell me about your portfolio! Oh! Yes! Yes! Yes!! YES!! Lie
    to me about your family! Oh, yes! Oh, Yes! Oh, YES! Yes!! Yes!! YES!!
    YEAAA!!! OH!!! Oh...! Oh... God you're good."
'What do I do now?'
"Old style?  You roll over and go to bed. New style? You go out for
    pizza and I never see you again."
        -- Ivanova and Correlilmurzon (sex, human stle), "Acts of Sacrifice"
%%
"Next time, my way."
        -- a note from Correlilmurzon to Ivanova, "Acts of Sacrifice"
%%
"The Narns are falling before us. Soon, they will have all the trouble
    they could wish for. What else does one need? And if it makes your
    life a little easier in this difficult time, it is a happy
    coincidence. It is good to have friends, is it not, Mr. Garibaldi?
    Even if, maybe, only for a little while?"
'Even if only for a little while.'
        -- Londo and Garibaldi, "Acts of Sacrifice"
%%
"You can see why we've had to quarantine this whole area. The last
 maintenance crew we had in here wouldn't come back. They kept having
 dreams about this thing. They said it talked to them in their sleep."
        -- Ivanova (re: Kosh's ship), "Hunter, Prey"
%%
"I sure as hell don't want to talk in front of this thing."
        -- Garibaldi (re: Kosh's ship), "Hunter, Prey"
%%
"Stephen, the last time you vouched for a doctor friend of yours, we had
    three dead bodies, half the station was trashed, an Icaran war
    machine was burning through decks and shooting at everything."
'Alright, fine. You don't want my advice, don't ask for it. But I'm
    telling you there's been some kind of mistake. The Dr. Jacobs I knew
    would never sell our Earth.'
        -- Garibaldi and Dr. Franklin, "Hunter, Prey"
%%
"Maybe we should spend some time together soon. Build some bridges, work
    toward a greater understanding on one another."
'Why?'
"You tell me. You're the one who popped into my dream when I was in that
    alien ship a few weeks ago. It felt like...I don't know. Like you
    called to me."
'I sought understanding. I listened to the song. Your thoughts became
    the song.'
"Has this ever happened before?"
'Once."
        -- Sheridan and Kosh, "Hunter, Prey"
%%
"I don't believe anybody."
'What a wonderful world you live in.'
"Yeah, well. The rent is cheap, the pay is decent, and I got to make
    my own hours."
        -- Garibaldi and Dr. Franklin, "Hunter, Prey"
%%
"I have an excellent disguise. Let's go."
'Why is my life suddenly passing in front of my eyes?'
        -- Garibaldi and Dr. Franklin, "Hunter, Prey"
%%
"You wanted to see me?"
'You wanted to see me.'
"Well, I guess everybody does. To see what you really are, inside that
    encounter suit."
'They are not ready. They would not understand.'
"Am I ready?"
'No. You do not even understand yourself.'
        -- Sheridan and Kosh, "Hunter, Prey"
%%
"What do you want?"
'Never ask that question.'
        -- Sheridan and Kosh, "Hunter, Prey"
%%
"I will teach you."
'About yourself?'
"About you. Until you are ready."
'For what?'
"To fight legends."
        -- Kosh and Sheridan, "Hunter, Prey"
%%
"How does it know?"
'The same reason our scanner indicated one alien life form when Kosh
    wasn't around. It's what's we've suspected all along, but could
    never prove. The Vorlons use organic technology. It's a living
    ship. Conscious. Aware.
        -- Garibaldi and Sheridan, "Hunter, Prey"
%%
"While I was asleep, the uh...the ship...it sang to me."
        -- Dr. Jacobs (re: Kosh's ship), "Hunter, Prey"
%%
"There's always a next time, isn't there?"
'You'd better pray it stays that way, Captain. Because as long as there
    is a next time, at least there's a chance we'll win. Because in this
    war, Captain, we need all the chances we can get.'
        -- Sheridan and Sarah, "Hunter, Prey"
%%
"Welcome to Babylon 5, the last, best hope for a quick buck."
        -- Ivanova, "There All The Honor Lies"
%%
"We're not some...some deep space franchise. This station is about
 something."
        -- Ivanova, "There All The Honor Lies"
%%
"May I ask what you are discussing here?"
'The only thing that matters, the truth.'
"Ah yes, the favorite song of the legally ignorant."
        -- Guinevere Corey and Sheridan, "There All The Honor Lies"
%%
"I don't appreciate being called ignorant in front of others."
'I'm sorry, is naive better?'
"And I don't need a lawyer."
'Now we're back to ignorant.'
        -- Sheridan and Guinevere Corey, "There All The Honor Lies"
%%
"One moment of perfect beauty."
        -- Kosh (to Sheridan), "There All The Honor Lies"
%%
"Another lesson? What this time?"
'Beauty...in the dark.'
"Ah, must be working. You're beginning to stalk just like a Vorlon."
        -- Ivanova and Sheridan, "There All The Honor Lies"
%%
"You feel like you're being symbolically cas...t in a bad light."
        -- Ivanova (to Londo re: Londo doll), "There All The Honor Lies"
%%
"I never thought there could be anything worse than being all alone
    in the night."
'But there is, being all alone in a crowd.'
        -- Sheridan and Delenn, "There All The Honor Lies"
%%
"If I am forced to leave this place with all its marvelous opportunities,
 I will have to kill you. What are friends for?"
        -- Londo (to Vir), "There All The Honor Lies"
%%
"Now, Commander, I'm sure there's more to your story than that."
'Yes.'
        -- Cynthia Torqueman and Ivanova, "And Now For A Word"
%%
"Why does any advanced civilization seek to destroy a less-advanced one?
 Because the land is strategically valuable, because there are resources
 that can be cultivated and exploited, but most of all, simply because
 they can. You have experienced much the same on your own world. There
 are humans for whom the words 'never again' carry special meaning, as
 they do for us."
        -- G'Kar, "And Now For A Word"
%%
THE PSI CORPS IS YOUR FRIEND. TRUST THE CORPS.
    -- "And Now For A Word"
%%
"Of course it is. For the simple reason that no one else will ever
 build a place like this. Humans share one unique quality: they build
 communities. If the Narns or the Centauri or any other race built a
 station like this, it would be used only by their own people. But
 everywhere humans go, they create communities out of diverse, and
 sometimes hostile, populations. It is a great gift and a terrible
 responsibility...one that cannot be abandoned."
        -- Delenn (re: is it worth it), "And Now For A Word"
%%
"I'd like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your
 head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations
 that some favors some with too high a price. I want to look up into
 your lifeless eyes and wave like this. Can you and your associates
 arrange that for me, Mr. Morden?"
        -- Vir (re: What do you want?), "In the Shadow of Z'Ha'Dum"
%%
"Diplomatic immunity only applies when the subject is charged with a
    crime. So far Mr. Morden hasn't been charged. We're holding him
    in...umm...protective custody."
'Protecting him from what?'
"I haven't decided yet."
        -- Sheridan and Vir, "In the Shadow of Z'Ha'Dum"
%%
"Be warned, once you know his secret, once you know what we have known
 for the last 3 years, you'll never sleep well again. Come Captain. The
 greatest nightmare of our time is waiting for you."
        -- Delenn (to Sheridan re: Morden), "In the Shadow of Z'Ha'Dum"
%%
"There are beings in the universe billions of years older than either
 of our races. Once, long ago, they walked among the stars like giants,
 vast and timeless. They taught the younger races, explored beyond the
 rim, created great empires. But to all things there is an end. Slowly,
 over a million years, the First Ones went away. Some passed beyond the
 stars, never to return. Some simply disappeared."
        -- Delenn, "In the Shadow of Z'Ha'Dum"
%%
"We have no other name for them. The Shadows were old when even the
 Ancients were young. They battled one another over and over across a
 million years. The last great war against the Shadows was ten thousand
 years ago. It was the last time the Ancients walked openly among us. The
 Shadows were only defeated, not destroyed. A thousand years ago, the
 Shadows returned to their places of power, rebuilt them, and began to
 stretch forth their hand. Before they could strike, they were defeated by
 an alliance of worlds, including the Minbari and the few remaining First
 Ones who had not yet passed beyond the Veil."
        -- Delenn, "In the Shadow of Z'Ha'Dum"
%%
"When they had finished, the First Ones went away...all but one."
'There's still one of them left. Where?'
"That is why Kosh cannot leave his encounter suit. He would be recognized."
'Recognized? By who?'
`Everyone.`
        -- Delenn, Sheridan, and Kosh, "In the Shadow of Z'Ha'Dum"
%%
"If yes was the answer, what was the question?"
'Have the Shadows returned to Z'ha'dum?'
        -- Sheridan and Delenn, "In the Shadow of Z'Ha'Dum"
%%
"Because right now, they do not know how much we know. The last time,
 the Shadows lost because they moved too quickly. Now, they are being
 careful, gathering their forces slowly. If you push Morden, sooner or
 later, he will tell you what happened. Then he will be killed. And you
 will be killed. The Shadows will move now, before we're ready for them."
        -- Delenn (to Sheridan), "In the Shadow of Z'Ha'Dum"
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"Aside from the Vorlons, we do not have the First Ones to help us this
 time. We are on our own! We will have only one chance to stop them, and
 if we fail, billions will die."
        -- Delenn (to Sheridan), "In the Shadow of Z'Ha'Dum"
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"Sooner or later, I'm going to Z'ha'dum, and I'm going to stop them."
'If you go to Z'ha'dum, you will die.'
"Then I die, but I will not go down easily and I will not go down alone.
    You will teach me?"
'Yes.'
        -- Sheridan and Kosh, "In the Shadow of Z'Ha'Dum"
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"Oh, that's cute. A zombie with a gas attack."
        -- Garibaldi, "Knives"
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"Why make history if you fail to learn from it?"
'You know Vir, you have what the Earthers call a negative personality.'
"No I don't."
'There, you see?'
        -- Vir and Londo, "Knives"
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"Knowledge is a basic tool of politics."
        -- Urza to Londo, "Knives"
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"I have a destiny to fulfill. One which will take out people back to a
 golden age. We are Centauri, Urza. We are meant to conquer, to rule, to
 build empires."
        -- Londo, "Knives"
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"You cannot build an empire based on slaughter and deceit."
        -- Urza to Londo, "Knives"
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"Disgrace is preferable to death."
'There was a time when I would agree with you. The time has past.'
"Londo, this is insane."
'Insanity is part of the times. You must learn to embrace the madness.
    Let it fire you.'
        -- Vir and Londo, "Knives"
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"I prefer to be only slightly insane."
'Don't we all.'
        -- Sheridan and Garibaldi, "Knives"
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"One does not sleep during the cooking. It could lead to error."
        -- Delenn, "Confessions and Lamentations"
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"All life is transitory, a dream. We all come together in the same place
 at the end of time. If I don't see you again here, I will see you in a
 little while. In the place where no shadows fall."
        -- Delenn (to Sheridan), "Confessions and Lamentations"
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"That does seem to be the rule, doesn't it? Analyze the problem, choose
 whichever strategy makes lease sense, and do it."
        -- Dr. Lazarenn, "Confessions and Lamentations"
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"Faith manages."
        -- Delenn, "Confessions and Lamentations"
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"Sometimes the test is not to find the answer, its to see how you react
 when you realize there is no answer."
        -- Dr. Lazarenn, "Confessions and Lamentations"
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"What happens is that we honor the memory of those who are no longer with
 us by using what we have learned to save others. To exercise faith,
 patience, charity. To reach out to those who are afraid. If we can do
 that, then their passing will have had meaning and we will grow from it."
        -- Delenn, "Confessions and Lamentations"