Ta'Lon quotes from Babylon 5

Ta'Lon

I carry my sword in my hand. You carry yours in your heart and in your mind. As I see it, that gives you a two-to-one advantage in arms. Be fair, Citizen G'Kar.

John Sheridan

I don't know what my superiors would say if I started showing up everywhere with a Narn bodyguard.

Ta'Lon

They will say, "Here is a man who will live to be a hundred and fifty!"

G'Kar

You must understand, Ta'Lon. I have had a revelation!

Ta'Lon

What kind of revelation?

G'Kar

A most profound and substantial one, Ta'Lon. The kind of revelation that transforms your mind, your soul, your heart--even your flesh--so that you are a new creature, reborn in the instant of understanding.

Ta'Lon

That was a stirring reply, Citizen G'Kar. Unfortunately, while all answers are replies, not all replies are answers. You did not answer the question that I asked. What do you understand now that you did not understand before?

G'Kar

Where is my book? It is my only copy!

Ta'Lon

Yes, that is precisely the point. The Kha'Ri felt that if anything happened to you [on Centauri Prime] the book of G'Kar would never see the light of day, so we "liberated" it [from G'Kar's quarters].

G'Kar

Liberated it?

Ta'Lon

We took it home. Those that read it were very moved by it and they made some copies.

G'Kar

[aghast] Copies?!

Ta'Lon

Just a few...for their friends. A few more...later a few more copies.

G'Kar

How many?!

Ta'Lon

That's hard to say, exactly. There was some confusion when it went to the printers.

G'Kar

Printers?! I've only been gone for a month, Ta'Lon, there can't be that many copies floating around this quickly. How many?

Ta'Lon

Five or six...hundred...thousand.

G'Kar

What?!

Ta'Lon

I've been told that it will out-sell the book of G'Quan. [G'Kar stares at him in shock] Congratulations, citizen G'Kar. You are now a religious icon.

G'Kar

All my life, I have been responsible only for myself. When I risk, 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 them 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.

Ta'Lon

If that happens, I give you my word that I will personally kill you.

G'Kar

And this is supposed to put my mind at ease?