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From The Great Machine

Month of November Quotes:

edit / "Now, there have been a lot of rumors about you since you got on board this station, captain. Maybe everybody else is afraid to ask. I don't have that problem. You see, I don't work for you. I answer only to Sheridan. So I want to know, just for me, which side were you on?" (Garibaldi to Lochley; S5E05, Learning Curve)

edit / "You don't have to solve every problem all at once. Problems are solved in pieces. If you're on the seventh floor of a burning building, you can either die or jump out the window. Once you're out the window, you're alive for another two seconds, during which time you figure out the solution to the next problem and so on and so on." (Lochley; S5E06, Strange Relations)

edit / Bester: Oh, come on, doctor, we have a history here. Tell the truth. You don't want me here a second more than I want to be here.

Dr. Franklin: 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.
Bester: Thank you, I feel far more at home now. (S5E13, The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father)

edit / "That's enough. I said that's enough! Now, we gave you a promise. And we are bound by that promise. And damn you asking for it. And damn me for agreeing to it. And damn all of us to hell, because that is exactly where we are going. We talked about peace. You didn't want peace. We talked about co-operation. You didn't want co-operation. You want war. Is that it? You want a war? Well, you've got a war!" (Sheridan; S5E16, And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder)

edit / "I'll check back with you after two years. If you've done as I ask, if you've created a force I can use against the Corps .. I'll take out that neural block. Then you can deal with Bester. I'll deal with the Corps. We both get what we want." (Lyta to Garibaldi; S5E19, Wheel of Fire)

edit / Mack: You've seen him and Delenn together, right? Now that's true love, my friend. You don't see that very often.

Bo: Quite very true. He's a good man.
Mack: Yep. A good man.
Bo: I heard he was dead once.
Mack: Yeah, well, nobody's perfect, Bo. (S5E04, A View from the Gallery)

edit / "I don't believe this. What is it with this place? I mean, last week someone tries to assassinate Sheridan, and now someone tries to poison Londo. My 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; S5E02, The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari)

edit / G'Kar: Hello, Lyta.

Lyta: G'Kar.
G'Kar: Do you mind if I talk to you?
Lyta: You'll forgive the accommodations.
G'Kar: 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. (S5E20, Objects in Motion)

edit / "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; S5E18, The Fall of Centauri Prime)

edit / "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; S5E07, Secrets of the Soul)

edit / All I know is that they hate comets. Even mentioning a comet to a Brakiri is some kind of, like, awful taboo. Death. It's the symbol of death. (Garibaldi; S5E11, Day of the Dead)

edit / G'Kar: You want to be president?

Sheridan: Yes.
G'Kar: Put your hand on the book and say, 'I do.'
Sheridan: I do.
G'Kar: Fine. Done. Let's eat. (S5E01, No Compromises)

edit / Regent: It's going to be a pretty night, the last one I will ever see.

Londo: 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.
Regent: Oh, there will be peace, for a while. It never lasts, really. They said so. They said two 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.
Londo: They? Who are they, Regent?
Regent: Oh, you will find out for yourself soon enough, Londo. You shouldn't rush your last free hours. And there were 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.
Londo: What did they ask you to do?
Regent: To send away all the ships .. guarding Centauri Prime on a false emergency and turn off the planetary defense network.
Londo: No!
Regent: 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.
Londo: No! (S5E17, Movements of Fire and Shadow)