A scene from Serenity 2005
Mal

It ain't all buttons and charts, little albatross. You know what the first rule of flying is? Well, I suppose you do, since you already know what I'm about to say.

River

I do. But I like to hear you say it.

Mal

Love. You can learn all the math in the 'verse, but you take a boat in the air that you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as the turnin' o' worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she ought to fall down. Tells you she's hurting 'fore she keens. Makes her a home.

River

Storm's getting worse.

Mal

We'll pass through soon enough.

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