Delenn quotes from Babylon 5

Lennier

It was the year of fire...

Zack Allan

...the year of destruction...

G'Kar

...the year we took back what was ours.

Lyta Alexander

It was the year of rebirth...

Vir Cotto

...the year of great sadness...

Marcus Cole

...the year of pain...

Delenn

...and a year of joy.

Londo Mollari

It was...a new age.

Stephen Franklin

It was the end of history.

Susan Ivanova

It was the year everything changed.

Michael Garibaldi

The year is 2261.

John Sheridan

The place, Babylon 5.

Susan Ivanova

[in Minbari] Engines at full...high power hatrack ratcatcher to port weapons...brickbat lingerie!

Marcus Cole

It's...

Delenn

Um, very good!

Marcus

Bit of an accent. But yes, very good.

Delenn

But it is not enough to speak Minbari; you must also think in our language.

Marcus

It can take a few seconds to translate an order. And we all know a lot can happen in a few seconds: Crash, boom, burn.

Delenn

Exactly. So Marcus will accompany you.

Ivanova

[protesting] That's not...

Delenn

[to Marcus] Do you mind?

Marcus

Not at all. Love to.

Ivanova

All right. Meet me early in the morning, or I'm leaving without you. [She stalks off.]

Marcus

[calling after her] I'll be there!

Delenn

Tell the crew that if anyone laughs, they will answer to me personally.

Delenn

The others have rejected you! How do you have a war when no one will fight for either of you?

Sheridan

We refuse to take sides in this anymore! And we refuse to let you turn us against one another! We know who we are now. We can find our own way between order and chaos!

Delenn

You can kill us one by one, and those who follow us, and those who follow them, on and on, every race, every planet. Until there's no one left to kill. You will have failed as guardians. And you will be alone.

Sheridan

It's over because we've decided it's over. Now get the hell out of our galaxy! Both of you!

As I taught you and stepped aside, now you must do the same. Our age is past. This...belongs to the younger races now. They have learned to stand on their own. They have learned...to understand. Time to let them go.

Will you...come...with us?

I have been here since the beginning. I will not leave you now. I will go with you beyond the Rim, and we will see again all those who went ahead of us, all those who we have missed for so long.

Then...we will not be alone?

No. Never alone.

Marcus

Did we just win?

Ivanova

Don't jinx it.

I waited a long time for someone to find me. Now, like the others, I find I hate to leave. But none of us can stay behind this time. That was why it was necessary to find all the remaining First Ones. This...is yours now. And you have an obligation...to do as we have done. To teach the races that will follow you and, when your time comes, as ours has, to step aside and allow them to grow into their own destiny. If your races survive, if you do not kill yourselves, I look forward to the day when your people join us...beyond the Rim.

We will wait for you...

Sheridan

We are all alone now, just the younger races. We can't blame anyone else from now on. It's a new age, Delenn. A third age!

Delenn

Why third?

Sheridan

We began in chaos, too primitive to make our own decisions. Then we were manipulated from outside by forces that thought they knew what was best for us. And now? Now we are finally standing on our own. Lorien was right, it's a great responsibility. This is ours now.

Delenn

Strange. The galaxy seems somehow smaller now that the First Ones are gone forever.

Sheridan

It feels like the magic's gone now.

Delenn

No, not gone. Now we make our own magic. Now we create our own legends. Now we build the future. Now we stop…

Delenn

Master, may I ask a question? Will you make contact?

No. The Council will be more determined now. I could override their decision, but nothing would be served. Authority should never be used as a club, Delenn.

Delenn

But then why?

When others do a foolish thing, you should tell them it is a foolish thing. They can still continue to do it, but at least the truth is where it needs to be. They will be most upset with you now. You have embarrassed them. I apologize for that. In my anger, I believe I may have caused you more problems in the future.

Delenn

No. No, Master. It was an honor.

Don't interrupt when I'm being kind. It does not happen often, Delenn. Raise your eyes and look at me.

Delenn

[eyes down] It is disrespectful.

I cannot have an aide who will not look up. You will be forever walking into things.

John Sheridan

Can't you send out Lennier? It might be dangerous.

Delenn

[smiles in amusement] John! It pleases me that you care for what I have become. [seriously] But never forget who I was, what I am, and what I can do.

Delenn

Yes, we've disagreed, even fought, but I would rather have someone who opposed me out of an honest belief in the rightness of his cause than someone who is always on my side because it was expected and required. I've questioned your judgment, your wisdom, your temperament, but never your loyalty.

Neroon

Was that a compliment?

Delenn

After a fashion.

Neroon

Then you trust me?

Delenn

After a fashion.

Neroon

Dukhat chose you above all to follow him. Slowly, dimly, I begin to understand why. I do not know what lies ahead of us, Delenn. But I do know that it is right that we are here together.

Delenn

Was that a compliment, Neroon?

Neroon

[smiling wryly] After a fashion.

John Sheridan

[over radio] We need you, Delenn.

Delenn

[commanding the League's fleet] We are there.

John Sheridan

...and I was wondering if they will remember us in hundred years from now or a thousand. And I figure probably not.

Delenn

But it does not matter. We did what we did because it was right and not to be remembered. And history will attend to itself. It always does.

Delenn

What if the station falls?

Sheridan

Then, as you said to me once, "I'll see you again in the place where no shadows fall."

Delenn

Captain, this is not about revenge.

Elizabeth Lochley

[sarcastically] Oh? Then what is this about?

Delenn

Terror.

Lochley

So, what kind of terror are we talking about here, Delenn?

Delenn

The kind that cripples...the kind that destroys. Not from without, but from within. As soon as he can stand, whether he is fully healed or not, Tennier will prepare to face his terror. Those who harmed him now have power over him. He must take back that power or he will never be whole again. We will go with him, and bring him to the point of his terror. And then, he will face it.

Lochley

But if he isn't fully healed, he could die in the effort.

Delenn

As Anla'shok, we choose to do that which frightens us, knowing that there are no guarantees. He may lose; we cannot help him.

Lochley

Then he will stand alone.

Delenn

At the end, Captain, we all stand alone.

G'Kar

He should have a bodyguard assigned to him at all times while he is there. Someone we can rely on, someone, uh… someone we can trust. Someone strong… strong enough to…

G'Kar

Oh, no…

Delenn

The Alliance is about learning to overcome our distrust and form a new community. Can you think of a better symbol?

G'Kar

No, and I'm trying. Believe me.

Delenn

You would naturally have to accompany him on all state business and be there to guard him. In the palace. In the Royal Court.

G'Kar

[brightens] A Narn in the Centauri Royal Court? [laughs] It is a curiously satisfying image, Delenn!

Londo Mollari

[worried] G'Kar? You've assigned G'Kar as my bodyguard?

Delenn

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.

Londo

A symbol…

Delenn

Yes.

Londo

And you tried this line on G'Kar?

Delenn

I did.

Londo

And did it work?

Delenn

Completely.

Londo

[swears] Great Maker!

Sheridan

Can you stall [the Alliance council] a bit?

Delenn

Not a problem. I'll tell them we're declaring war on Earth. That'll give them something positive to think about.

Sheridan

[distracted] Good. Good. Give me the paperwork and I'll sign it.

John Sheridan

What does the candle represent?

Delenn

Life.

Sheridan

Whose life?

Delenn

All life. Every life. We are 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 live inside us. A 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.

John Sheridan

I tell ya, the next person who acts irrationally, I swear I'm gonna shoot myself in the head.

Delenn

BASTARDS!

Franklin

Did she just...?

Sheridan

She did.

Franklin

I'll get the gun.