Season 5
• No Compromises
• The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari
• The Paragon of Animals
• A View from the Gallery
• Learning Curve
• Strange Relations
• Secrets of the Soul
• In the Kingdom of the Blind
• A Tragedy of Telepaths
• Phoenix Rising
• The Ragged Edge
• Day of the Dead
• The Corps is Mother, The Corps is Father
• Meditations on the Abyss
• Darkness Ascending
• And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder
• Movements of Fire and Shadow
• The Fall of Centauri Prime
• Wheel of Fire
• Objects in Motion
• Objects at Rest
• Sleeping in Light

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"And so it begins."
"There is a hole in your mind."
"What do you want?"
"No one here is exactly what he appears."
"Nothing's the same anymore."
"Commander Sinclair .. is being reassigned."
"Why don't you eliminate the entire Narn homeworld while you're at it?"
"I see a great hand reaching out of the stars."
"Who are you?"
"President Clark has signed a decree today declaring martial law."
"These orders have forced us to declare independence."
"Weapons supplies."
"Unless your people get off their encounter-suited butts and do something."
"You are the one who was."
"If you go to Z'ha'dum, you will die."
"Why are you here?
 Do you have anything worth living for?"
"I think of my beautiful city in flames."
"Like giants in a playground."
"Get the hell out of our galaxy!"
"We are here to place president Clark under arrest."
	-- Season Opener in Babylon 5:"No Compromises"
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"The newly elected president of the Interstellar Alliance, about to be
 officially sworn in, washing his own socks. You're a very strange man,
 even for a human."
"Why, thank you."
	-- Delenn and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"No Compromises"
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"My people are coming."
	-- Byron in Babylon 5:"No Compromises"
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"Well, Mr. Garibaldi says it's very well written."
"Well, I .. I'm sorry, there's just the one copy for now, and well .. when
 I loaned it to Mr. Garibaldi, it came back with coffee stains. I can't--"
	-- Sheridan and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"No Compromises"
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"I will not sleep, eat, drink, nothing! The words and I will be locked in
 mortal combat until one of us surrenders."
	-- G'Kar to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"No Compromises"
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"That's a tall order."
"Perhaps. But where is it written that all our dreams must be small ones?"
	-- Lochley and Byron in Babylon 5:"No Compromises"
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"You want to be president?"
"Yes."
"Put your hand on the book and say, 'I do.'"
"I do."
"Fine. Done. Let's eat."
	-- G'Kar and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"No Compromises"
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"Which side were you on during the big fight back home?"
"I was on the side of Earth, Mr. Garibaldi, weren't we all?"
	-- Garibaldi and Lochley in Babylon 5:"No Compromises"
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"Do you know what this is, hmm? No, I can see you do not. You have that
 vacant look in your eyes that says, 'Hold my head to your ear, you will
 hear the sea.' This is brevari, very old brevari, very expensive brevari.
 Do you understand brevari, hmm?"
	-- Londo to Zack in Babylon 5:"The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari"
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"I was going to tell you tonight, Delenn, after dinner."
".. Why?"
"Because .. bad news improves on a good meal. Valen said--"
"Lennier."
	-- Lennier & Delenn in Babylon 5:"The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari"
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"I don't believe this. What is it with this place? I mean, last week someone
 tries to assassinate Sheridan, now someone tries to poison Londo.
 God! What is wrong with you people? Don't you have anything else better
 to do? Why don't you get a hobby? Read a book or something?"
	-- Vir in Babylon 5:"The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari"
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"You couldn't sleep either."
"No. I heard about your .. situation."
"I heard about yours. As Mr. Garibaldi would say, it's been one hell of a day."
"Yes, a hell of a day."
"And a hell of a year."
"A hell of a 5 years."
"A hell of a life."
".. You win."
	-- Vir and Lennier in Babylon 5:"The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari"
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"All of the bottles here are empty? The metaphor's getting a bit thick,
 don't you think?"
	-- Londo in Babylon 5:"The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari"
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"You're wrong, Mollari. Whether it was me or my world, whether it was a total
 stranger or your worst enemy, you were a *witness*! It doesn't matter if
 they'd stop. It doesn't matter if they'd listen. *You* had an obligation to
 speak out!"
	-- G'Kar to Londo in Babylon 5:"The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari"
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"Apparently, according to some of our folk tales, if the spirit of a Centauri
 ends up in a body that is not worthy of its presence, it can choose to
 separate, to cause the death of the body so that it can then move on to a
 worthier host."
"Right. Right, I remember that. It's a very big struggle, and apparently the
 person involved is either permanently changed by the experience or he dies.
 Of course, this is only supposed to happen when the higher spirit is a real,
 real high one--I mean, we're talking major angelic here--and the person
 that it's stuck inside is a complete monster, I mean just nasty and
 corrupt and disgusting. It's--
 Not that I was--because obviously you are--you know, I really have to go.
 To your question: yes. I do remember that story. I heard it... ever since
 I was a child."
"Interesting. I didn't."
	-- Londo and Vir in Babylon 5:"The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari"
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"Not even a goodbye, Lennier?"
"No, never goodbye.
 I'm yours forever, Delenn, heart, body, and soul. I will see you again in a
 little while, and with luck, I will perhaps be a better person."
"That is not possible, Lennier, but you're welcome to try."
	-- Delenn and Lennier in Babylon 5:"The Very Long Night of
	   Londo Mollari"
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"I would remind the Drazi ambassador that the Centauri Republic has
 already signed the declaration. And if the Centauri can sign it,
 anybody can sign it."
"That's right. .. Wait a minute."
	-- G'Kar and Londo in Babylon 5:"The Paragon of Animals"
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"You've misspelled this. There's no 'Y' in liberties."
"Oh, go away. Repress someone else."
"As you wish."
	-- Londo and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"The Paragon of Animals"
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"Send all of them. Or at least as many as we can afford. Dukhat once told me:
 'If you can create sufficient fear in your enemies, you may not have to fight
 them. Always remember that terror is also a form of communication.'"
"Oh, he taught you well."
	-- Delenn and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Paragon of Animals"
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"The universe speaks in many languages, but only one voice. The language is
 not narn or human or centauri or gaim or minbari. It speaks in the language
 of hope."
"It speaks in the language of trust. It speaks in the language of strength
 and the language of compassion. It is the language of the heart and the
 language of the soul. But always it is the same voice. It is the voice of our
 ancestors speaking through us and the voice of our inheritors waiting to be
 born. It is the small, still voice that says: 'We are one. No matter the blood,
 no matter the skin, no matter the world, no matter the star. .. We are one.
 No matter the pain, no matter the darkness, no matter the loss, no matter
 the fear. .. We are one.' Here, gathered together in common cause, we agree
 to recognize this singular truth and this singular rule that we must be kind
 to one another."
"Because each voice enriches us and ennobles us and each
 voice lost diminishes us. We are the voice of the universe, the soul of
 creation, the fire that will light the way to a better future. We are one."
"We are one."
	-- Sheridan / G'Kar in Babylon 5:"The Paragon of Animals"
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"Tell me that it matters to you that I help your friend."
"It matters to me."
"Then for your sake I will do it."
	-- Byron and Lyta in Babylon 5:"The Paragon of Animals"
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"Ah, Mr. President. Oh, good, good, good. I was looking for these."
"What are you doing?"
"Well, we need to get everyone to sign them again."
"What? We .. Do you understand what we went through to get them signed
 even once?"
"I revised it again. It's better."
"G'Kar!"
"But look."
"It's better."
	-- G'Kar and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Paragon of Animals"
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"You've seen him and Delenn together, right? Now that's
 true love, my friend. You don't see that very often."
"Very true. He's a good man."
"Yep. A good man."
"I heard he was dead once."
"Yeah, well, nobody's perfect, Bo."
	-- Mack and Bo in Babylon 5:"A View from the Gallery"
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"I was... never a child. I had responsibilies. I've had responsibilities for
 as long as I can remember. Duty. Honor. Family."
"Ah. That explains a great deal."
"Really. And what exactly does it explain, G'Kar?"
"I spent my years in one shelter after another, but sooner or later I was able
 to leave the shelter, and walk out into the daylight. You do not have that
 luxury; you carry your shelter with you, every day. You did not grow up.
 You grew old."
	-- Londo and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"The View from the Gallery"
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[Londo and G'Kar] "So, how long you figure they been married?"
	-- Mack in Babylon 5:"The View from the Gallery"
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"Then, as you said to me once, 'I'll see you again,
 in a place where no shadows fall.'"
	-- Sheridan to Delenn in Babylon 5:"A View from the Gallery"
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"If I am launchd in a life pod, and let us say shortly after the launch, the
 equipment is accidentally smashed from the inside, what would happen to
 the pod?"
"It'd crash into Epsilon 3."
"Or explode. It could explode."
"Possible. Wouldn't be good either way, ma'am."
"I see. Understand that, while I'm not a prophet, I can tell you that if I were
 going to be sent away, in a lifepod, and forced to watch everything I love
 and have fought for die before my eyes, without even a chance to keep it
 together, the lifepod would suffer just such a terrible accident.
 Now, time being circular, if we know that this *will* happen, then we may
 as well assume that it has happened already, and that the lifepod is not
 safe for me to enter."
"The president is right, ma'am, it's not safe here for either one of you."
"I know. But it's home for both of us."
	-- Delenn, Bo and Mack in Babylon 5:"The View from the Gallery"
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"Suddenly, I think I understand Sheridan a lot better."
"How so?"
"Well, dead or alive I'd claw my way out of hell and straight through 10
 miles of solid rock to see that smile again."
	-- Bo and Mack in Babylon 5:"A View from the Gallery"
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"You are a source of constant annoyance to me, Turval, but only because
 you're right more often than you're wrong. And why should I keep this joy
 to myself? I choose to share you with the universe. Valen help them all."
	-- Sech Durhan to Sech Turval in Babylon 5:"Learning Curve"
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"OK, you're right. I wasn't on your side.
 I was on the side that says it's not the role of the military to set policy,
 or depose presidents, or fire on our own ships.  We follow orders until one
 comes along that violates our conscience. Then we have to decide whether or
 not to follow it, and take the consequences. Maybe you'll be proven right,
 maybe they'll stick you in front of a firing squad, but your decision affects
 only you.  You can take a stand without destroying the chain of command."
"And did you? Did you take a stand?"
"Well, now, that's none of your concern, Mr. Garibaldi. You asked me if
 I took up arms against my own government. The answer is no. My job is to
 protect the men and women who serve under my command, and I will perform that
 job with every last breath I've got, because I owe them nothing less."
"And to hell with the rest of the world."
"Well, now, there you have me at a disadvantage, Mr. Garibaldi. You see,
 I don't know what's best for the whole world. I don't understand the ethical
 structure of the universe, and I sure as hell don't think it's my place to
 tear up the constitution I swore an oath to protect.
 I am a soldier, Mr. Garibaldi. And as such, my vocabulary is rather limited.
 I only *really* understand three words: loyalty, duty, honor.  If I did it
 your way, one of those would have to go. And the other two would become
 meaningless. Just like this conversation. Good day."
	-- Lochley and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Learning Curve"
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"You just keep doing what you're doing. Michael will come around,
 eventually. He's a good man."
"I know. I just .. I just never thought I'd meet a second man as
 strong-willed, stubborn, and annoying as I am. My cup runneth over."
	-- Sheridan and Lochley in Babylon 5:"Learning Curve"
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"We create the meaning in our lives. It does not exist independently. Being
 Anla-shok does not mean worrying about what others will think about us.
 It does not mean deciding what to do based upon whether or not it serves
 our sense of ego or destiny. It means living each moment as if it were your
 last one. It means doing each right thing because it is the right thing.
 The scale doesn't matter. The where, the when, the how, or in what cause ..
 none of those things matter. In my life, I've discovered very few truths.
 Here is the greatest truth I know: Your death, Rastenn, will have a meaning
 if it comes while you're in fullest pursuit of your heart."
	-- Sech Turval to Rastenn in Babylon 5:"Learning Curve"
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"As Anla-shok, we choose to do that which frightens us, knowing that
 there are no guarantees. He may lose. We cannot help him."
"Then he will stand alone."
"At the end, Captain, .. we all stand alone."
	-- Delenn and Lochley in Babylon 5:"Learning Curve"
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"I've got my rights!"
"You've got the pike. Continue."
	-- Trance and Sech Turval in Babylon 5:"Learning Curve"
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"The willow is deceptively strong. It bends, but it does not break.
 Its roots are deep and can withstand the worst storm. It promises
 rest, and shade, and cool breezes to those who would find rest
 beneath it. You have become my willow. and we have all found shelter
 in your kindness."
	-- Byron to Lyta in Babylon 5:"Strange Relations"
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"Thank you. That was probably the most elegant attempt to change the topic
 I have ever heard."
	-- Lyta in Babylon 5:"Strange Relations"
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"I do not feel as if I am doing enough for the Alliance, Delenn."
"Be careful, G'Kar. When the universe hears you say something like that,
 it tends to answer in the most surprising ways."
	-- G'Kar and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Strange Relations"
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"How am I doing so far?"
"Annoyingly logical."
"Thank you."
"It wasn't a compliment."
	-- Lochley and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Strange Relations"
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"I'm caught in a web of my own good intentions."
"Well, the road to hell is paved with them, sir."
"I know, but why does it have to go through this office?"
	-- Sheridan and Lochley in Babylon 5:"Strange Relations"
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"This is a matter of discipline and protocol. You just don't walk into
 somebody's office and start a fight...
 unless invited to do so."
	-- Lochley in Babylon 5:"Strange Relations"
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"I don't know you, therefore I don't trust you."
"The world's full of people you don't know."
"I worry about that all the time."
	-- Garibaldi and Lochley in Babylon 5:"Strange Relations"
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"Now, I don't actually like him, and I sure as hell don't trust him,
 but so far he has not done anything unpleasant to me. I'm sure he will,
 because this place seems to bring that out in everyone, but until then,
 I have an obligation to be courteous."
"And I have an obligation to shove his face through a bulkhead."
"Your hobbies are your concern, Mr. Garibaldi. Just do it where
 I can't see it, and do it quietly."
	-- Lochley and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Strange Relations"
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"There's nothing more appealing than knowing that someone's willing to
 lay down their life for you."
"And nothing more dangerous."
	-- Lochley and Zack in Babylon 5:"Strange Relations"
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"G'Kar? You assigned G'Kar as my bodyguard?"
"Yes. I think your generosity in working with him will be an excellent
 symbol of unity for all the other races who could join the alliance."
"A symbol."
"Yes."
"And you tried this line on G'Kar?"
"I did."
"And did it work?"
"Completely."
"Great Maker."
	-- Londo and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Strange Relations"
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"Byron, the Vorlons changed me. More than you could possibly know.
 I don't know what it'll do once you get past my barriers and I get
 past yours. It could burn you."
"Then let it burn."
	-- Lyta and Byron in Babylon 5:"Secrets of the Soul"
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"It was the Vorlons."
"Yes."
"They created telepaths on a hundred worlds. Interfered with their genetic
 development. Took people from their homeworlds and adjusted them over the
 course of the centuries."
"Yes."
"Because they needed telepaths in their war against the Shadows. Needed us
 as cannon fodder."
"Yes."
"We would be normal. We would have *lives*. We would be able to walk and live
 and work among normals without fear of persecution if the Vorlons had not
 interfered with our normal development. We were made for their benefit,
 to save them. We were told that our abilities were our gift and our curse,
 and that we were somehow responsible for it. But we're not. We're not."
	-- Byron and Lyta in Babylon 5:"Secrets of the Soul"
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"He doesn't drink! He cultivated sobriety as his only vice."
	-- Londo in Babylon 5:"In the Kingdom of the Blind"
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"Once I would've thought *pastels* for the curtains, but I think we are
 well beyond pastels now. No, no bright colors anymore, just darkness."
	-- Regent to Lord Jano in Babylon 5:"In the Kingdom of the Blind"
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"Never, ever, *ever* trust a telepath. I swear to you that I'm
 gonna have that tattooed on the inside of my eyelids."
	-- Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"In the Kingdom of the Blind"
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"It's bad luck to die on empty stomach."
	-- G'Kar to Londo in Babylon 5:"In the Kingdom of the Blind"
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"You will follow me, you will be emperor soon."
"Yes."
"I'm sorry. I'm so .. so sorry."
	-- Regent and Londo in Babylon 5:"In the Kingdom of the Blind"
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"These things happen in a monarchy.
 When I was still new to the royal palace I looked out the window and saw a
 guard standing in the middle of a courtyard, nothing to protect, nothing
 to guard, no doors. I couldn't figure out what he was guarding.
 And so I asked around; no one knew. Not even the Emperor. Finally they
 searched through the old records, and found the truth--that *200* years
 before, as winter came to an end, the Emperor's daughter saw the first
 flower growing up through the snow.
 To keep anyone from walking on it, she assigned a guard to stand watch
 over it every day; after that, she never gave it much thought, and thus
 never countermanded the order.
 As a result, every day, for 200 years, a guard would stand in that place...
 long after the flower was gone. Long after the *reason* had been forgotten.
 Long after the princess was gone."
	-- Londo in Babylon 5:"A Tragedy of Telepaths"
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"Khrm."
"It's .. animal magnetism, what can I say?"
	-- Londo and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"A Tragedy of Telepaths"
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"We got two people dead here!"
"Two of your people. They're not my people. My people are in there, and
 several others just tried to kill me... but then, what family doesn't have
 its difficulties?"
        -- Zack and Bester in Babylon 5:"A Tragedy of Telepaths"
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"Every great fall begins with a single mistake."
	-- Drazi to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"A Tragedy of Telepaths"
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"We should expect some losses on their side, but let's try to keep it within
 acceptable limits. The Corps is mother, the Corps is father -- in that way
 these are our children who have gone astray. We have to at least *try* to
 bring them in alive so that we can correct their thinking."
	-- Bester in Babylon 5:"Phoenix Rising"
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"Let me ask you something, Mr. Garibaldi, a purely philosophical question.
 On a scale of 1 to 10, .. how stupid do you think I am anyway?"
	-- Bester to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Phoenix Rising"
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"You satisfied, Mr. Bester?"
"No, not at all. I don't understand it. In spite of it all, I always thought
 at the end of the day we were on the same side. They just needed someone
 to explain it to them .. so they'd understand who the real enemy was."
"Us, the mundanes."
"We weren't supposed to fight each other, not like this. I don't understand,
 .. I truly .. don't."
	-- Sheridan and Bester in Babylon 5:"Phoenix Rising"
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"I have always said this about you: Nothing so improves your company like
 the lack of it. The less they see of you, the more they like you."
	-- Londo to G'Kar in Babylon 5:"The Ragged Edge"
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"Ta'Lon? Ta'Lon, is it you?"
"It's me most days, except for those days when I don't feel quite like
 myself and I suppose that I am someone else, but for now: yes, it's me."
	-- G'Kar and Ta'Lon in Babylon 5:"The Ragged Edge"
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"Where is my book? It is my only copy!"
"Yes, that is precisely the point. The Kha'Ri felt if anything happened
 to you, the book of G'Kar would never see the light of day, so we ..
 liberated it."
"*Liberated* *it?*"
"We took it home. Those that read it were very moved by it and they made some
 copies."
"*Copies?!*"
"Just a few,for their friends. And then a few more, made a few more copies."
"How many?!"
"That's hard to say, exactly. There was some confusion when it went to
 the printers."
"*Printers?!* I've only been gone for a month, Ta'Lon, there can't be that
 many copies floating around this quickly. How many?"
"Five or six .. hundred .. thousand."
"*What?*"
"I have been told it will out-sell the book of G'Quan. .. Congratulations,
 citizen G'Kar. You are now a religious icon."
	-- G'Kar and Ta'Lon in Babylon 5:"The Ragged Edge"
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"Good morning, G'Kar. Well, this is a delight, I didn't know you had
 children."
"Neither did I."
"Yes, most unsettling when that happens, and in your case most amusing."
	-- Londo and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"The Ragged Edge"
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"So, what happened to your hair?"
	-- Tafiq Azir to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Ragged Edge"
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"All my life .. I have been responsible only for myself. When I risked,
 I risked alone to avoid making others pay the price for my mistakes.
 They want me to show them another way. What if I show then the wrong
 way? What if they come to me not because of the lesson but because of
 the teacher? I worry, Ta'Lon, that my shadow may become greater than
 the message."
"If that happens, I give you my word that I will personally kill you."
"And this is supposed to put my mind at ease?"
"I'm a warrior. It's what I have to give. You and I both have our burdens
 to bear, G'Kar. I will carry mine, .. if you will carry yours."
	-- G'Kar and Ta'Lon in Babylon 5:"The Ragged Edge"
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"Put your face in the book."
        -- G'Kar in Babylon 5:"The Ragged Edge"
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"He's hosting a cocktail party for, uh .. Rebo and Zooty.
 Now, later tonight, we are having dinner with them."
"Rebo and Zooty are here? Zoot zoot? This is truly a day of wonders."
	-- Delenn and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead"
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"You know, I was really hoping to talk to Zooty, you know, without
 the machine."
"Yeah. He never breaks character, not even around me. In 10 years,
 I've only heard him say one word, without the machine."
"Oh. Oh. What's the word?"
"Why."
"Oh, just curious."
"No, no. that was the word: 'Why'. In 10 years I haven't figured
 it out myself."
	-- Sheridan and Rebo in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead"
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"So .. When you were emperor, it meant something. Subduer of the Xon and the
 Shoggren. .. Now .. Ptttp! *Anyone* can be emperor. I can be emperor. *Vir*
 can be emperor. If Vir can be emperor, a small Earth cat can be emperor. ..
 Come on. Talk to me. It's the day of the dead."
	-- Londo in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead"
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"I thought you'd be pleased to see me."
"But I .. I thought you were dead."
"Ah. You know, the reports of my death, they weren't even exaggerated
 a little bit. Yeah, I'm .. I'm dead. But, you know, I missed you,
 and how often do dead people get second chances?"
	-- Garibaldi and Dodger in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead"
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"We're in space?"
"Yeah."
"Cool."
	-- Zoe and Lochley in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead"
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"You don't come to the dead for wisdom, Lennier."
	-- Morden to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead"
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"Wisdom: let's see, uh... Delenn does not love you as you love her, and she
 never will."
"I know that."
"No, you don't. Not in your heart, that's the problem, you see.
 No one should ever want to talk to the dead."
	-- Morden and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead"
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"So. Do you like being a Ranger, Lennier? Would you like it any better if
 I were to tell you that you will betray the Anla'shok?"
"You are lying."
"I wish I were."
	-- Morden and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead"
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"I'm prophetic, not infallible."
"I think you are neither, but at least you have shown me
 there is truly life beyond death."
"Not necessarily, but you'll find that out soon enough."
	-- Morden and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead"
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"I could no more betray the Anla'shok than my fingers could betray my hand."
	-- Lennier in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead"
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"Dodger, this is Captain Lochley. This is PFC... the late PFC--"
"Derman-Elizabeth-56927-killed-in-action, Sir!"
	-- Garibaldi and Dodger in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead"
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"You know, some guys would be flattered if a not-entirely-uncute dame
 returned from the dead to spend a night of lust and passion with them."
	-- Dodger to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead"
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"I mean, it's some guys' fantasy: a love-hungry redhead who'll disappear
 in the morning, never to be seen again!"
	-- Dodger to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead"
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"Okay, Captain, let me get this straight: you sold Babylon 5 to an alien
 race, for the night, who somehow transported a square mile of this station
 to their homeworld while apparently filling it with people temporarily
 returned from the dead?"
"Yes, sir."
"Well, do you have an explanation as to *why* you did this?
"Yes, sir. I thought it was a metaphor, sir.
 ... I'll try to be more literal-minded from now on, sir."
	-- Sheridan and Lochley in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead"
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"What did he say?"
"'Because it tells me to.'"
	-- G'Kar and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead"
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"Besides, we don't often see a sense of humor in Psi-Cops."
"Reports of our depression are vastly exaggerated."
	-- Lauren Ashley and Bester in Babylon 5:"The Corps is Mother,
	   the Corps is Father"
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"OBEY"
	-- A sign in Babylon 5:"The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father"
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"TRUST THE CORPS"
	-- A sign in Babylon 5:"The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father"
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"Does the mothership ever leave hyperspace?"
"Only for repairs when we can do so it without being seen. No reason for the
 rest of the world to know what our resources are. The rest of the time it
 just sits here in hyperspace for months at a time carrying missions back
 and forth and waiting until we need it, just like all the others."
	--  Chen Hikaru and Bester in Babylon 5:"The Corps is Mother,
	    the Corps is Father"
%%
"Don't you ever go away? Haven't you caused enough trouble for one lifetime?"
"It's a pleasure to see you too, Mr. Allan. Where can I find Captain Lochley?
 I should check in with her."
"She's busy, you can check in with me. Card. So what is it this time, Mr.
 Bester? Hunting down freedom-fighters, pulling wings off flies, annexing
 the Sudetenland."
	-- Zack and Bester in Babylon 5:"The Corps is Mother,
	   the Corps is Father"
%%
"Oh, come on, doctor, we have history here. Tell the truth.
 You don't want me here a second more than I want to be here."
"Personally, no. But as a doctor I have to treat all my patients equally,
 even the annoying self-righteous arrogant ones with self-important delusions
 of godhood."
"Ah, thank you, I feel far more at home now."
	-- Bester and Franklin in Babylon 5:"The Corps is Mother,
	   the Corps is Father"
%% 
"Argh! You broke my finger!"
"True. But you have nine others... for the moment."
	-- lurker and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Meditations on the Abyss"
%%
"I was beginning to wonder if you were going to make it, Lennier."
"I said that I would never leave you, that I would be here when you needed
 me most. Tell me what you want done; I will make it happen, no matter
 the cost."
	-- Delenn and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Meditations on the Abyss"
%%
"As a friend he would want to protect you. As my husband he would need
 to protect me from anything that might happen to you."
"I think, in that respect, he does not know you as well as he should."
"He knows me, but he also loves me. And sometimes the one gets in the
 way of the other."
"Yes, I .. imagine it could do that."
	-- Delenn and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Meditations on the Abyss"
%%
"So, Ambassador, how is the wife? Not too tired, I hope."
	-- Londo to Drazi Ambassador in Babylon 5:"Meditations on the Abyss"
%%
"Ah, yes, but what is truth and what is God?"
"[sigh] Truth is a .. river."
"And what is God?"
"God is .. the mouth of the river."
	-- Narn Acolyte and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Meditations on the Abyss"
%%
"What happened to Vir?"
"Oh, I promoted him. ..
 Now, *now* he is ready to be the ambassador for the Centauri."
	-- Zack and Londo in Babylon 5:"Meditations on the Abyss"
%%
"Sh--Show me the way to go home, I'm tired and I want to go to bed.
 I had a little -- oh, that's a big drink -- about an hour ago
 and it went right to my head. .. What did I do .. with that link?
 Here Linky, Linky, Linky? Here, Linky? Ah, the missing link!"
	-- Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Meditations on the Abyss"
%% 
"I've decided to stop hiding what the Vorlons did to me. I'm testing to
 see what I can do, how far I can go. I had no idea. You shouldn't have
 woken up. This is just a dream. *This* .. *never* .. *happened*."
	-- Lyta to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Darkness Ascending"
%%
"Now, it is absolutely inappropriate of you to pull a stunt like that
 without telling me. I cannot have you making--"
"You are right."
".. I-- Oh, dammit, Delenn. I have been working up a good mad all day and
 I am not about to let you undercut it by agreeing with me."
"It *was* inappropriate for me to assign Lennier to that part of space
 without informing you. *Just* as it was inappropriate for you *not* to
 assign him there. I admitted mine with perfect honesty. Now you can
 admit yours."
	-- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Darkness Ascending"
%%
"Oh, and you mentioned wondering what my pleasure threshold is.
 I just recently found out. .. I don't have one. Have a very,
 very nice day, G'Kar."
	-- Lyta to G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Darkness Ascending"
%% 
"As of right now the Centauri Republic stands alone."
	-- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder"
%%
"What does the candle represent?"
"Life."
"Whose life?"
"All life, every life. We're all born as molecules in the hearts of a billion
 stars, molecules that do not understand politics or policies or differences.
 Over a billion years, we foolish molecules forget who we are and where we
 came from. In desperate acts of ego, we give ourselves names, fight over
 lines on maps, and pretend that our light is better than everyone else's.
 The flame reminds us of the piece of those stars that lives on inside us, the
 spark that tells us: you should know better. The flame also reminds us that
 life is precious, as each flame is unique. When it goes out, it's gone forever.
 And there will never be another quite like it. So many candles will go out
 tonight. I wonder some days if we can see anything at all."
	-- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder"
%% 
"Something's bothering you. What is it?"
"I need to ask you to do something I don't want to ask you to do."
"If it's about my wearing those little-- I appreciate the gift and I didn't
 say I wouldn't wear them, I just said that .. for me, from a Minbari
 perspective, I thought that it looked silly."
"No, it's--it doesn't have anything to do with that."
"[Sigh] Business then?"
	-- Delenn and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Movements of Fire and Shadow"
%%
"I still think you should leave, Mollari."
"No. I said where you go, I go. It's become a matter of principle."
"You picked a terrible moment in your social evolution to develop principles.
 Perhaps you could start with something simpler, the moral equivalent of an
 opposable thumb, for instance."
	-- G'Kar and Londo in Babylon 5:"Movements of Fire and Shadow"
%%
"It's going to be a pretty night, the last one I will ever see."
"You shouldn't talk that way, Regent. You still have many years
 ahead of you. That's why it's important to recall the ships. We can still
 make peace."
"Oh, there will be peace, for a while. It never lasts, really. They said so.
 They said both things, actually. That there will be peace and that it won't
 last. They also said I would be dead by morning and that tomorrow .. you
 will be emperor. They said many, many things. Things I didn't want to hear.
 Things I didn't understand. And things I didn't *want* to understand."
"They? Who are *they*, Regent?"
"Oh, you will find out for yourself soon enough, Londo. You shouldn't rush
 your last *free* hours. And there was something else they told me .. to do.
 And I did it just a few moments before I came to see you. The last thing I
 will ever have to do for them. And in a way .. I'm glad it's over."
"What did they ask you to do?"
"To send away all the ships .. guarding Centauri Prime on a false emergency
 and turn off the planetary defense network."
"No!"
"I think I'll stay .. and watch from here. The sky should be lighting up any
 time now. I imagine .. it will be .. quite beautiful."
"*No!*"
	-- Regent and Londo in Babylon 5:"Movements of Fire and Shadow"
%% 
"They say the bombardment is moving away from the capital,
 into the outer areas. We should be safe for a time."
"Madness. Our people are dying by the thousands, tens of thousands!"
"Yes. They say--"
"Who says? Who are they? What are you talking about?"
"They! Say .. it's your time now, Londo."
	-- Regent and Londo in Babylon 5:"The Fall of Centauri Prime"
%%
"No! Wait. Don't. What do you want of me?"
"What we want from you .. is you."
	-- Londo and Drakh in Babylon 5:"The Fall of Centauri Prime"
%%
"I don't have the authority."
"You will .. because I will be dead, and you *will* *be* Emperor.
 It's all very clean that way. Once I'm gone, you can blame me
 for anything you want. I won't mind .. really .. because I'll know ..
 you had no choice. No choice at all."
	-- Londo and Regent in Babylon 5:"The Fall of Centauri Prime"
%%
"Do you know how much time we have left on life support?"
"It's hard to say."
"Meaning you do not know, or .. you do not wish to say?"
	-- Delenn and Lennier in Babylon 5:"The Fall of Centauri Prime"
%%
"I can't stay. I just wanted to see how you were."
"Better. I would be dead if not for you. You risked your life to save mine."
"Yes. You would have done the same."
"Yes, but I am a better person."
	-- Londo and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"The Fall of Centauri Prime"
%%
"In the months and the years to come, you may hear many strange things
 about me, my behavior. Well, they say the position .. changes you.
 And I just .. I .. I wanted to--"
"I understand."
"Perhaps. And perhaps you do not understand as much as you think. Pray ..
 that you never do, G'Kar. Pray .. that you never truly understand."
	-- Londo and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"The Fall of Centauri Prime"
%%
"Isn't it strange, G'Kar? When we first met, I had *no* power .. and all
 the choices I could ever want. And now I have all the power I could
 ever want .. and no choices at all. No choice .. at all."
	-- Londo to G'Kar in Babylon 5:"The Fall of Centauri Prime"
%%
"Mollari .. understand .. that I can never forgive your people for what
 they did to my world. My people can never forgive your people. But *I*
 .. can forgive .. *you*."
	-- G'Kar to Londo in Babylon 5:"The Fall of Centauri Prime"
%%
"Perhaps it's not so bad to go off the beacon. No one knows what's out
 there. Maybe we'll find a million-year-old jumpgate left behind by the
 First Ones. That would be amazing, wouldn't it, Lennier?"
"Yes."
"I would, of course, expect you to get it working in a timely fashion."
"I will do my best."
	-- Delenn and Lennier in Babylon 5:"The Fall of Centauri Prime"
%%
"Delenn."
"Yes?"
"I love you."
"I know."
	-- Lennier and Delenn in Babylon 5:"The Fall of Centauri Prime"
%%
"Lennier, you said something a moment ago. I didn't actually hear it;
 the power monitor, you see--it was making a great deal of noise."
"Nothing. I said nothing."
"Well... at times of great stress, one can say things one did not intend to
 say--would never have said, under other circumstances. I don't think
 anyone should be held to that or asked to explain or... well... it's neither
 here nor there, as the humans say."
	-- Delenn and Lennier in Babylon 5:"The Fall of Centauri Prime"
%%
"Lennier, look at me.
 Nothing happened.
 ... Except that, for a moment, I found myself feeling extremely
 complimented, and deeply honored, by your presence. By your friendship. "
	-- Delenn in Babylon 5:"The Fall of Centauri Prime"
%%
"Citizens of Centauri Prime. We have come through the long night of fire,
 pain, and death. We have been gravely wounded, but we remain Centauri.
 The Regent began the war with the Alliance, and *that* *war* is now over.
 The greater one, the war to rebuild our world and restore our place in the
 galaxy now begins. Sheridan and his Alliance have struck deeply at our
 people, exacting a terrible price in the lives of those who died during
 the night. Another great price must now be paid in the form of reparations
 which will come close to ruining our economy. They wish to teach us a
 lesson, to break us so that we will never again be a problem. This
 punishment is unfair, is a violation of our sovereign rights, but we *will*
 *bear* this burden as we have borne so many before. We are no longer a part
 of the Alliance. We are alone. We fought alone, and we will rebuild alone.
 We will work even harder to show those who have come to humiliate us that
 we will not bow down. As a symbol of our new isolationism, I will walk
 alone to my inauguration. I will take on the burden of Emperor in silence.
 The bells of our temples will sound all day and all night, once for each
 of our people killed in the bombings. We are alone, alone in the universe,
 but we are *united* in our pain. May the Great Maker be with you all."
	-- Londo in Babylon 5:"The Fall of Centauri Prime"
%%
"I find .. I can no longer see the road you're on, Londo.
 There's a darkness around you. I can only pray that in time,
 you may find your way out of it."
	-- Delenn in Babylon 5:"The Fall of Centauri Prime"
%% 
"I'm not angry with you. Not now. I was. .. But Delenn has a .. way of
 looking at things that..  No. No, I'm not angry with you. But I am very
 disappointed, Michael."
"I'd rather have you yelling at me or angry. Anything but disappointed.
 I know I failed.."
"I didn't say I was disappointed in you because of your failure. I'm
 disappointed because I didn't pick up on this earlier. Disappointed
 because you felt that you couldn't come to me about this on your own.
 When Stephen had his problem a couple of years ago, I didn't step forward
 and offer my help when I should have. And he damn near died trying to
 deal with his problem on his own. I have made a lot of mistakes, the same as
 everybody else. But I try not to make the same mistake twice."
	-- Sheridan and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Wheel of Fire"
%%
"You have to understand that your problem is not between you and me,
 you and your job, or any of that. Your problem is between you .. and you."
	-- Sheridan to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Wheel of Fire"
%%
"I've never understood that. Why does the universe
 give us puzzles with no answers?"
"Payback, maybe?"
	-- G'Kar and Franklin in Babylon 5:"The Wheel of Fire"
%%
"He stopped painting the day he enlisted. But he wanted to paint.
 He was good at it. And it was killing him not to .. one drink at
 a time. He didn't see any way out of his life, any way to change it.
 But the door's always there, Michael. You just have to open it."
	-- Lochley to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Wheel of Fire"
%%
"I'm tired of being pushed around, Captain. I do not choose to be arrested.
 I've done a lot for this place .. and just once I think a little gratitude
 would be in order, don't you?"
"Lyta, don't force us to--"
"To what?"
	-- Lyta and Lochley in Babylon 5:"The Wheel of Fire"
%%
"You cannot harm me. You cannot stop someone who's been touched by Vorlons."
"You're not the only one that's been touched by the Vorlons."
	-- Lyta and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Wheel of Fire"
%%
"What .. part of my message did you get? We've been having trouble
 with the com system, see, and--"
"The most important part. The part that said: 'I need you.'"
"And you came here just on that?"
"What more is there?"
	-- Garibaldi and Lise in Babylon 5:"The Wheel of Fire"
%%
"What could make her turn like this?"
"Well, let's see. She was, .. adjusted by the Vorlons, dumped by the
 Vorlons, used as a weapon. Quit the Corps. Lost the only man she ever
 loved and dedicated herself to finishing his work. Pick one or all of
 the above and, let's face it, she's pissed."
"Massively."
	-- Sheridan and Franklin in Babylon 5:"The Wheel of Fire"
%%
"Well, then you may as well give up, because nobody gets it 100% right."
"I just want to give you a normal life."
"There is no 'normal life', Michael. There's just life."
	-- Lise and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Wheel of Fire"
%%
"Life is change. It's a good thing."
	-- Lise to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Wheel of Fire"
%%
"Something's happened to your abilities. You're not a P5 anymore. Hell,
 you're not even a P12. You're the strongest telepath that I've ever seen.
 What'd the Vorlons do to you, Lyta? Who .. what are you?"
"I've only recently begun to understand it myself. You know the Vorlons
 used telepaths as weapons during the Shadow War, but what no one stopped
 to consider was that in a war, you have a certain number of small weapons,
 a certain number of medium-sized weapons .. and one or two big ones ..
 the kind of weapons you drop when you're .. out of small weapons
 and the medium weapons and you've got nothing left to use."
"Someone like that would .. be the telepathic equivalent of a thermonuclear
 .. device, a .. a doomsday weapon."
"Pleased to meet you, Mr. Garibaldi."
	-- Garibaldi and Lyta in Babylon 5:"The Wheel of Fire"
%%
"Stop staring at me."
"I'm sorry. I couldn't help it."
"One would think you have never seen a pregnant half-human
 half-minbari before."
	-- Delenn and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Wheel of Fire"
%% 
"Hello, Lyta."
"G'Kar."
"Do you mind if I talk to you?"
"You'll forgive the accommodations."
"It's a cell. I've gotten used to them. Frankly, I've done some of my best
 writing in places like this. In here, you cannot run from yourself."
	-- G'Kar and Lyta in Babylon 5:"Objects in Motion"
%%
"It's ironic. Heh. *You* have to leave because *everybody* wants you.
 They're fighting over you. And I have to leave because *nobody* wants me."
"And yet we are the same in many ways. We are all the sum of our tears.
 Too little and the ground is not fertile, and nothing can grow there.
 Too much, the best of us is washed away. My rains have come and gone
 .. for now. Yours are just beginning."
	-- Lyta and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Objects in Motion"
%%
"Meanwhile, consider the walls around you. In a little while,
 we will leave these behind. Now you have to decide how many
 others you will bring with you when we leave."
	-- G'Kar to Lyta in Babylon 5:"Objects in Motion"
%%
"How are things on Mars?"
"We've had nothing but trouble with Earth since we became independent.
 They're treating us as if we were still a colony. *Everything* has to
 go through Earth: supplies, money transfers, documents. They couldn't
 kill us with bullets, so they're drowning us in red tape. Frankly, I
 preferred the bullets. At least there I could shoot back."
"Well, that's the problem when you go from being a soldier to a politician.
 You have to sit and listen to people you would've shot six months earlier."
	-- Sheridan and Tessa Halloran in Babylon 5:"Objects in Motion"
%%
"I believe that when we leave a place, part of it goes with us and part of
 us remains. Go anywhere in the station, when it is quiet, and just listen.
 After a while, you will hear the echoes of all our conversations, every
 thought and word we've exchanged. Long after we are gone .. our voices
 will linger in these walls for as long as this place remains. But I will
 admit .. that the part of me that is going .. will very much miss the part
 of you that is staying."
	-- G'Kar to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Objects in Motion"
%%
"But if you could have removed them at any time.."
"It made everybody feel safer. Besides, I think I
 kind of liked it after a while."
	-- G'Kar and Lyta in Babylon 5:"Objects in Motion"
%%
"It occurs to me I have never walked the length of this place end to end."
"Well, Delenn, it's five miles long."
"I know. Coming?"
"*Now?*"
"Now is all we have."
	-- Delenn and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Objects in Motion"
%% 
"Some words have always come easier to me than the others. One of the most
 difficult words for me was 'goodbye'. There is no corresponding word for
 'goodbye' in Minbari. All our partings contain within them the possibility of
 meeting again, in other places, in other times, in other lives. So you will
 excuse me if I do not say goodbye. Our souls are a part of this place, our
 hopes, the foundation of our future.
 And we will pass this way again"
	-- Delenn in Babylon 5:"Objects at Rest"
%%
"It's good to know that at least one of the old gang will be
 sticking around for a while."
"Who, me? Absolutely. Hell, I'll probably still be here
 when they turn off the lights."
"I don't doubt it."
	-- Sheridan and Zack in Babylon 5:"Objects at Rest"
%%
"There are moments when we all become someone else, something other
 than what we are. It takes only a moment, but we spend the rest of
 our lives looking back at that moment in shame."
	-- Delenn in Babylon 5:"Objects at Rest"
%%
"Now what?"
"Now we await the passage of years."
"Years?"
"We are very patient."
	-- Londo and Keeper/Drakh in Babylon 5:"Objects at Rest"
%%
"I give you .. what little wisdom I have. Delenn .. is the greatest ally
 you will ever have. Her depths of courage and compassion are unmatched
 in my experience. Look to her .. for wisdom and fire in equal measure.
 And if you ever have any doubt .. talk to her. She will never judge you.
 She will only love you. From time to time, you will make mistakes.
 They're inevitable. Sometimes those mistakes will be .. huge. What
 matters is that you learn from them."
	-- Sheridan to David in Babylon 5:"Objects at Rest"
%%
"At times, you may end up far away from home. You may not be sure
 of where you belong anymore. But home is always there. Because
 home is not a place. It's wherever your passion takes you."
	-- Sheridan to David in Babylon 5:"Objects at Rest"
%%
"As you continue on your path, you will lose some friends, and gain new ones.
 The process is painful, but often necessary. They will change, and you
 will change, because life is change. From time to time, they must find
 their own way, and that way may not be yours. Enjoy them for what they are,
 and remember them for what they were."
	-- Sheridan to David in Babylon 5:"Objects at Rest"
%%
"Fight .. for what you believe. Which brings me to the .. first piece
 of advice my dad ever gave me, and now I'm giving it to you. Never--"
"Never start a fight. But always finish it."
"Always finish it."
	-- Sheridan and Delenn to David in Babylon 5:"Objects at Rest"
%% 
"Sun's coming up."
	-- Sheridan to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Sleeping in Light"
%%
"A toast. To absent friends, in memory still bright."
	-- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Sleeping in Light"
%%
"I want to feel space beneath me, one last time. It's where I belong,
 where I've always belonged. Besides, everything we've built here,
 with the Alliance, is .. has become .. half reality, half mythology.
 And if it all ends here like it ends anywhere else.. but if it ends
 out there .. they'll remember it."
	-- Sheridan to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Sleeping in Light"
%%
"Good night, my love, the brightest star in my sky."
"Good night, you who are my sky, and my sun, and my moon."
	-- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Sleeping in Light"
%%
"Who are you? What do you want? Why are you here?
 Where are you going?"
"Lorien."
"Did you think we had forgotten you? We have been waiting .. for you."
"Beyond the rim."
"Yes."
"There's .. so much I still don't understand."
"As it should be."
"Can I come back?"
"No. This journey is ended. Another begins. Time .. to rest now."
	-- Lorien and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Sleeping in Light"
%%
"Well, look at that. Sun's coming up."
	-- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Sleeping in Light"
%%
"Babylon 5 was the last of the Babylon stations. There would never be
 another. It changed the future .. and it changed us. It taught us that
 we have to create the future .. or others will do it for us. It showed
 us that we have to care for one another, because if we don't, who will?
 And that true strength sometimes comes from the most unlikely places.
 Mostly, though, I think it gave us hope .. that there can always be
 new beginnings .. even for people like us."
	-- General Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Sleeping in Light"
%%
"Every morning for as long as she lived, Delenn got up before dawn
 and watched the sun come up."
	-- General Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Sleeping in Light"
%%
"And now, for those of you that have been archiving this ISN Special
 Documentary, the people responsible. Funding for this program was
 made possible by grants from the Anla-shok memorial fund."
	-- Voiceover in Babylon 5:"Sleeping in Light"
%%
"Cryonic Suspension Chamber"
"Subject: MARCUS COLE"
"Designation: Ranger"
"Status: Deceased"
"Comments: Indefinite Hold"
"In the event of new resuscitation technology"
"Requested by: Cmdr. S. Ivanova"
"45E"
	-- Cryo-unit in Babylon 5:"Sleeping in Light"
%%