Buffy the Vampire Slayer

I have several pages of quotes on my BtVS and AtS fansite called Fallen Angels. Click on Buffyverse.

"You understand why "Buffy" has not drawn a huge audience. It's impossible to describe to a newcomer without sounding like a raving lunatic. But those who have seen the show understand its poignance, its great comedy and its overall brilliance."

-New Jersey online

People die. You lead them into battle, they’re going to die.
It doesn’t matter how ready you are or how smart you
are… war is about death. Needless, stupid death.

-Buffy, from "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" ('End of Days' Season 7, Episode 21)

Xander: "Why blood? Why Dawn's blood? I mean, why couldn't it be like a, a lymph ritual?"
Spike: "'Cause it's always got to be blood."
Xander: "We're not actually discussing dinner right now."
Spike: "Blood is life, lackbrain. Why do you think we eat it? It's what keeps you going. Makes you warm. Makes you hard. Makes you other than dead. Course it's her blood."

-The Gift

Bottom line is, even if you see them coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. So, what are we, helpless? Puppets? Nah. The big moments are gonna come, you can't help that. It's what you do afterwards that counts. That's when you find out who you are.

-Whistler

Passion--it lies in all of us. Sleeping, waiting, and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir. Open it`s jaws, and it howls. It speaks to us, guides us. Passion rules us all, and we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love, the clarity of hatred, and the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we can live without passion, maybe we`d know some kind of peace. But we would be hollow empty rooms, shuttered and dank. Without passion, we`d be truly dead.

-Angel

Hey, I'm well aware of how lucky I am. Like, lottery lucky. Buffy's like nobody else in the world. When I'm with her, it's like I'm split in two--half of me is just on fire, going crazy if I'm not touching her. Other half is so still and peaceful, just perfectly content. Just knows: this is the one....But she doesn't love me

-Riley

Sometimes I envy you so much it chokes me. And sometimes I think I got the better deal. To be that close to her and not have her, to be all alone even when you're holding her. Feeling her, feeling her beneath you. Surrounding you...the scent. No. You got the better deal.

-Spike to Riley about Buffy

You're not friends. You'll never be friends. You'll be in love 'til it kills you both. You'll fight, and you'll shag, and you'll hate each other 'til it makes you quiver, but you'll never be friends. Real love isn't brains, children. It's blood. It's blood screaming inside you to work its will. I may be love's bitch, but at least I'm man enough to admit it.

-Spike to Angel and Buffy

Vampire#1: Yes. This weekend, the night of St. Vigeous, our power shall be at its peak. When I kill her, it'll be the greatest event since the crucifixion. And I should know. I was there.
Spike: (appears behind them) *You* were *there*? (chuckles) Oh, please! If every vampire who said he was at the crucifixion was actually there, it would have been like Woodstock.
Vampire#1: I oughta rip your throat out.
Spike: (turns his back to him and strolls away) I was actually at Woodstock. That was a weird gig. I fed off a flowerperson, and I spent the next six hours watchin' my hand move.
-from "School Hard" Season 2 Ep. 3 (#15) "BtVS" Written by David Greenwalt

 

Spike in high voice: "How can I thank you, you mysterious, black-clad hunk of a night thing?
Spike in low voice: No need, little lady, your tears of gratitude are enough for me. You see, I was once a badass vampire,
but love and a pesky curse defanged me. Now I'm just a big, fluffy puppy with bad teeth.
(Rachel steps closer to Angel, and Angel steps back warding her off with his hands)
No, not the hair! Never the hair!
Spike in high voice: But there must be someway I can show my appreciation.
Spike in low voice: No, helping those in need's my job, - and working up a load of sexual tension, and prancing away like a
magnificent poof is truly thanks enough!
Spike in high voice: I understand. I have a nephew who is gay, so…
Spike in low voice: Say no more. Evil's still afoot! And I'm almost out of that Nancy-boy hair-gel that I like so much. Quickly, to the Angel-mobile, away!"
Spike lights a cigarette while he watches Angel lead Rachel away.
Spike: "Go on with you. Play the big, strapping hero while you can. You have a few surprises coming your way. - The ring of Amarra - a visit from your old pal Spike, - and, oh yeah, - your gruesome, horrible death." (smiles)
-from "In The Dark" Season 1 Ep. 3 (#3) "Angel" Written by Doug Petrie

 

Buffy: What do you want?
Spike: I told you. I want to stop Angel. (snickers) I want to save the world.
Buffy: Okay. You do remember that you're a vampire, right?
Spike: We like to talk big. (indicates himself) Vampires do. 'I'm going to destroy the world.' (looks at the officer) That's just tough guy talk. (steps over to the car) Strutting around with your friends over a pint of blood. (sits on the hood) The truth is, I like this world. (pulls the cigarette pack from the officer's shirt pocket) You've got... dog racing, Manchester United. (pulls one out and drops the pack on the officer) And you've got people. (exhales) Billions of people walking around like Happy Meals with legs. It's all right here. (lights the cigarette and takes a drag) But then someone comes along with a vision. With a real... (exhales) passion for destruction. (takes another drag and looks at Buffy) Angel could pull it off. Goodbye, Picadilly. Farewell, Leicester Bloody Square. You know what I'm saying?
-from "Becoming, Part 2" Season 2 Ep. 22 (#34) "BtVS" Written by Joss Whedon

 

Spike: Look, you cut him up, you'll never get your answers.
(referring to Angel wanting to torture Giles by cutting him up with a chainsaw)
Angelus: Since when did *you* become so levelheaded?
Spike: Right about the time you became so pig-headed. You have your way with him, you'll never get to destroy the world. And I don't fancy spending the next month trying to get librarian out of the carpet. There are other ways.
-from "Becoming, Part 2" Season 2 Ep. 22 (#34) "BtVS" Written by Joss Whedon

 

(He shoves Willow aside and leans against the bedpost, calming down.)
Spike: She (Dru) wouldn't even kill me.
( He drops the broken bottle, walks around Willow and sits down next to her.)
Spike: She just left. She didn't even care enough to cut off my head or set me on fire. (sniffs) I mean, is that too much to ask? You know? Some little sign that she cared?
(He pauses for a moment to inhale and exhale deeply.)
Spike: It was that truce with Buffy that did it. Dru said I'd gone soft. Wasn't demon enough for the likes of her. And I told her it didn't mean anything, I was thinking of her the whole time, but she didn't care. So, we got to Brazil, and she was... she was just different. I gave her everything: beautiful jewels, beautiful dresses with beautiful girls in them, but nothing made her happy. And she would fliiirt! (sniffs) I caught her on a park bench, making out with a *chaos* demon! Have you ever seen a chaos demon? They're all slime and antlers. They're disgusting.
(He looks at Willow's pretty young face and strokes her silky auburn hair.)
Spike: She only did it to hurt me. (he takes his hand off of her) So I said, 'I'm not putting up with this anymore.' And she said, 'Fine!' And I said, 'Yeah, I've got an unlife, you know!' And then she said... she said we could still be friends. (leans over and sobs on Willow's shoulder) God, I'm so unhappy!
Willow: (tentatively pats his knee) There, there.
Spike: I mean, friends! How could she be so cruel?
-from "Lover's Walk" Season 3 Ep. 8 (#42) "BtVS" Written by Dan Vebber

 

(The kitchen at the Summers house. Joyce picks up the teakettle from the stove and takes it over to the island, where she pours some into a cup for Spike to make hot chocolate.)
Spike: So I'm strolling through the park, looking for a meal, and I happen to walk by, and she's (Dru) making out with the chaos demon! And so I said, 'You know, I don't have to put up with this.' And she said, 'Fine!' So I said, 'Fine, do whatever you like!' I mean, I thought we were going to make up, you know.
Joyce: (sits across from him) Well, she sounds very unreasonable.
Spike: She is. She's out of her mind. (sniffs) That's what I miss most about her. (smiles)
Joyce: Well, Spike, sometimes even when two people seem right for each other, their lives just take different paths. When Buffy's father and I...
Spike: (interrupts) No, this is different. Our love was eternal. Literally. (calms down) You got any of those little marshmallows?
-from "Lover's Walk" Season 3 Ep. 8 (#42) "BtVS" Written by Dan Vebber

 

Spike: (yells) What do you know (to Buffy and Angel) ? It's your fault, the both of you! She belongs with me. (sobs) I'm nothing without her.
Buffy: That I'll have to agree with. You're pathetic, you know that? You're not even a loser anymore, you're a shell of a loser.
Spike: Yeah. You're one to talk. (goes back to looking for stuff)
Buffy: Meaning?
Spike: (faces them) The last time I looked in on you two, you were fighting to the death. Now you're back making googly-eyes at each other like nothing happened. Makes me want to heave. (turns away)
Buffy: I don't know what you're talking about.
Spike: Oh, yeah. You're just friends.
Angel: That's right.
Spike: (faces them) You're *not* friends. You'll never be friends. You'll be in love till it kills you both. You'll fight, and you'll shag, and you'll hate each other till it makes you quiver, but you'll never be friends. (points at his temple) Love isn't brains, children, it's blood... (clasps his chest) blood screaming inside you to work its will.
(Neither Buffy nor Angel want to hear this.)
Spike: *I* may be love's bitch, but at least *I'm* man enough to admit it.
-from "Lover's Walk" Season 3 Ep. 8 (#42) "BtVS" Written by Dan Vebber

 

Buffy: Could we just do the damn spell now?
Spike: Oh, sod the spell. (waves it off) Your friends are at the factory.
( Buffy and Angel can't believe their gullibility.)
Spike: (smiling) I'm really glad I came here, you know? I've been all wrongheaded about this. Weeping, crawling, blaming everybody else. I want Dru back, I've just gotta be the man I was, (stands proud) the man she loved. I'm gonna do what I shoulda done in the first place: I'll find her, wherever she is, tie her up, torture her until she likes me again.
(He walks past them toward the back door. Just before he goes out he turns back.)
Spike: (smiles thoughtfully) Love's a funny thing. (He heads out the back.)
-from "Lover's Walk" Season 3 Ep. 8 (#42) "BtVS" Written by Dan Vebber

 

(Cut to Willow and Buffy's dorm room. Willow's moping again on her bed listening to sad music. There's a knock at the door.)
Willow : Come in. (Spike walks in. Willow is immediatly alarmed and gets up.) Spike! Wh-what do you want? Uh, a spell? I can do that.
(She goes to run past him, but he grabs her and and throws her against her dresser.)
Spike : I'll give you a choice. (He walks over to her.) Now I'm gonna kill you. No choice in that. But... I can let you stay dead... Or... Bring you back, to be like me.
Willow : I--I'll scream.
Spike : Bonus.
(Willow screams. Spike throws her on the bed and then turns the radio up to a blaring level.)
Willow: No!
(Spike jumps on her and they battle but he goes to bite her and can't.)
Spike : I don't understand. This sort of thing's never happened to me before. (He's sitting on Willow's bed.)
Willow : Maybe you were nervous.
Spike : I felt all right when I started. Let's try again. (He leaps on her and draws back immediatly. He tries again and the same thing happens.) Ow! Oh! Ow! Damn it! (He gets up and kicks the dresser. He starts to pace around the room.)
Willow : Maybe you're trying too hard. Doesn't this happen to every vampire?
Spike : Not to me, it doesn't!
Willow : It's me, isn't it?
Spike : What are you talking about?
Willow : Well, you came looking for Buffy, then settled. I--I... You didn't want to bite me. I just happened to be around.
Spike : Piffle!
Willow : I know I'm not the kind of girl vamps like to sink their teeth into. It's always like, "ooh, you're like a sister to me," or, "oh, you're such a good friend."
Spike : Don't be ridiculous. I'd bite you in a heartbeat.
Willow : Really? (Spike sits on her bed again.)
Spike : Thought about it.
Willow : When?
Spike : Remember last year, you had on that... Fuzzy pink number with the lilac underneath?
Willow : I never would have guessed. You played the blood-lust kinda cool.
Spike : Mmm. I hate being obvious. All fang-y and "rrrr!" Takes the mystery out.
Willow : But if you could...
Spike : If I could, yeah.
Willow : You know, this doesn't make you any less terrifying.
Spike : Don't patronize me.
-from "Initiative" Season 4 Ep. 7 (#63) "BtVS" Written by Doug Petrie

 

(Rattling. They look around. Xander charges the blaster. They go towards the sound. Spike comes out of the darkness.)
Xander: Spike?
Giles: What are you doing here?
Spike: Me? Hey, I'm not the one out of place here.
Xander: For your information, smarty, we've got a rogue Slayer on our hands. Real psycho-killer too.
Spike: Sounds serious.
Giles: It is. What do you know?
Spike: What do you need?
Xander: Her. Dark hair. Yay (indicates) tall, name of Faith, criminally insane.
Giles: Have you seen her?
Spike: Is this bird after you?
Xander: In a bad way, yeah.
Spike: Tell you what I'll do then. I'll head out, find this girl, tell her exactly where you are and then watch as she kills you. (Sees their looks of surprise and irriatation.) Can't any one of your damn little Scooby club at least try to remember that I hate you all? Just because I can't do the damage myself doesn't stop me from aiming a loose cannon your way. And here I thought the evening be dull.
Xander: Go ahead. You wouldn't even recognise her.
Spike: Dark hair, this tall (Indicates), anme of Faith, criminally insane. Like this girl already.
(Xander and Giles watch him leave.)
Xander: We're dumb.
-from "This Years' Girl" Season 4 Ep. 15 (#71) "BtVS" Written by Douglas Petrie

 

(Spike sitting in his armchair in his crypt, holding a bottle of alcohol. He pulls out the cork, sighs, and lifts the bottle to take a swig. The door bursts open and Riley enters.)
SPIKE: What took you? (Puts the cork back in and sets the bottle aside) Guess it takes a while to get back to full strength after those bites.
(Riley grabs Spike by the shirt and pulls him up out of the chair.)
SPIKE: Hey! Hey, let's be reasonable about this.
(Riley slams him up against a pillar.)
RILEY: You may have noticed, Spike, (punches Spike in the face) I left reasonable about three exits back.
SPIKE: Look, I'm not the one who got you into this. Don't kill the messenger.
(Riley scowls. He pulls back his arm and we see there's a stake in his hand. He plunges it into Spike's chest. Spike gasps.)
RILEY: Why the hell not?
(Blackout. Fade back in on Riley holding the stake in Spike's chest.)
SPIKE: (yelling) Ow! Bloody hell! Oh god! (quieter) Hey.
(He looks down at his chest as he realizes he hasn't been dusted yet. Riley yanks the stake out. Spike grabs his chest in pain, and stares at the stake.)
RILEY: Plastic wood-grain. Looks real, doesn't it? (Grabs Spike's shirt again) Don't think I don't know what's goin' on with you, Spike. (They glare at each other) Stay away from her. Or we'll do this for real next time.
(He pats Spike on the cheek and walks away. Spike leans against the pillar panting. He's still clutching his chest, but he begins to chuckle, and Riley turns back.)
SPIKE: (chuckling) Oh, man. You are really under it, aren't you?
RILEY: (angrily) What?
SPIKE: Look at you. All afraid I'm hot for your honey.
RILEY: (walks back toward Spike) Because you are.
SPIKE: Well ... yeah. But that's not your problem. Even if I wasn't in the picture, you're never gonna be able to hold onto her.
(Riley puts his hand over Spike's hand that is covering the wound. He pushes his hand deeper into it.)
SPIKE: Ow, bloody hell!
RILEY: Maybe I didn't almost kill you enough.
SPIKE: (in pain) Come on. You're not the long haul guy and you know it.
RILEY: Shut up.
SPIKE: You know it. Or else you wouldn't be getting suck jobs from two-bit vampire trulls.
(Riley looks annoyed, lets go of Spike. Spike continues panting.)
SPIKE: The girl needs some monster in her man ... and that's not in your nature... (He pushes away from the pillar, still holding his chest, and goes to sit in his chair) ...no matter how low you try to go.
(Spike sits back with an expression of pain. Riley paces around restlessly. Spike reaches for his bottle and begins to remove the cork again.)
RILEY: You actually think you've got a shot with her?
SPIKE: No, I don't. (removes cork) Fella's gotta try, though. Gotta do what he can. (Drinks)
RILEY: If you touched her... you know I'd kill you for real.
SPIKE: I had this chip outta my head, I'da killed you long ago. (Replaces cork) Ain't love grand?
( Spike tosses the bottle to Riley, who catches it and removes the cork again. He sits on a nearby coffin and takes a sip.)
SPIKE: (quietly) Sometimes I envy you so much it chokes me. (They exchange a look) And sometimes I think I got the better deal. (sighs) To be that close to her and not have her. To be all alone even when you're holding her. Feeling her, feeling her beneath you. Surrounding you. The scent ... (louder) No, you got the better deal.
(Riley looks over at Spike, takes another drink.)
RILEY: (bitterly) I'm the lucky guy. (shakes his head) Yeah.
( Long shot of the two of them sitting together. Riley tosses the bottle back to Spike.)
RILEY: I'm the guy.
(Spike takes another swig. They sit there together.)
-from "Into the Woods" Season 5 Ep. 10 (#88) "BtVS" Written by Marti Noxon

 

(Spike hurries after her, arrives in time to open the door for her. Buffy stops with her hand up (prepared to grab the doorknob) and turns to Spike with a frown.)
BUFFY: What are you doing?
SPIKE: (looks at the door) I, I was ... (scoffs) I wasn't thinking.
BUFFY: What is this?
SPIKE: Oh, come- (shoves the door closed) don't get your knickers twisted, I was-
BUFFY: What ... is this? (Spike stares at her) The late-night stakeout, the bogus suspects, the flask?
(Spike raises his eyebrows) Is this a date?
SPIKE: (loudly) A d- Please! (pretending to be amused) A date? You are completely off your bird! I mean - (quietly) Do you want it to be?
( Buffy makes a little groan, with an expression of disgust. She moves past Spike back into the warehouse.)
BUFFY: (upset) Oh my god.
(Spike bites his lip, turns to watch her.)
BUFFY: Oh ... oh no. (turns back to Spike) Are you out of your mind? (continuity note: the popcorn reappears)
SPIKE: It's not so unusual. (walks toward her) Two people ... in the workplace ... feelings develop.
BUFFY: No! No, no, feelings do not develop. No feelings.
SPIKE: You can't deny it. There's something between us.
BUFFY: Loathing. Disgust.
SPIKE: Heat. Desire.
BUFFY: Please! Spike, you're a vampire.
SPIKE: Angel was a vampire.
BUFFY: Angel was good!
SPIKE: And I can be too. I've changed, Buffy.
BUFFY: What, that chip in your head? That's not change. Tha-that's just ... holding you back. You're like a serial killer in prison!
SPIKE: Women marry 'em all the time!
BUFFY: Uhh!
SPIKE: (realizing that's not what he meant) But I'm not ... like that. Something's happening to me. I can't stop thinking about you.
BUFFY: Uhh. (turns away)
SPIKE: And if that means turning my back on the whole evil thing-
BUFFY: (turns back) You don't know what you mean! You don't know what feelings are!
SPIKE: (offended) I damn well do! I lie awake every night!
BUFFY: You sleep during the day!
SPIKE: Yeah, but - (through his teeth) You are missing the point. This is real here. I love-
BUFFY: Don't!
( She puts up a hand to stop him. He sighs.)
BUFFY: Don't say it. (Spike stares at her) I'm going. She starts to walk toward the door again.
SPIKE: Oh, come on, we need to talk-
BUFFY: (turns back) We don't need to do anything! Okay, there is no we! Understand?
(She turns to leave.)
SPIKE: Buffy.
(She opens the door and exits. Spike watches her go.)
- from "Crush" Season 5 Ep. 14 (#92) "BtVS" Written by David Fury

 

This is the whole conversation that Spike and Buffy have about why Slayers lose and die at a young age. Buffy asks Spike how he was able to kill two slayers. She needs to find out how to be a better Slayer and live longer. This conversation takes place in 1977 during Spikes fight with the second slayer he killed and in the present with Buffy at the Bronze. The text in black takes place in 1977 and the text in green is at the Bronze in the present.

Spike:(to Buffy) The first was all business but the second, she had a touch of your style.
(Spike and the second Slayer trade blows. This Slayer does indeed fight much like Buffy. She runs Spike headfirst into the train car's window, smashing it. Spike looses a cry of delight and attacks again.)

Spike: (to Buffy)She was cunning, resourceful... oh, did I mention? Hot. I could have danced all night with that one.
Buffy: You think we're dancing?
Spike:That's all we've ever done.
(Spike breaks one of the subway car's hand rails and wields it as a weapon.)

Spike: (v.o.) And the thing about the dance is, you never get to stop.
(Spike flips the pool cue up and spins it like the hand rail.)

Spike: (to Buffy)Every day you wake up, it's the same bloody question that haunts you: is today the day I die?
(He brings the pool cue down in a vicious arc and Buffy counter-attacks, enraged.
Spike cracks the Slayer across the face with the metal rail, sending her reeling to the floor and pounds her repeatedly with it.)

Spike: (v.o.) Death is on your heels, baby, and sooner or later it's gonna catch you.
(Spike brings the rail down for another blow but the Slayer catches it and slams it back into his face.)

Spike: (to Buffy) And part of you wants it... not only to stop the fear and uncertainty, but because you're just a little bit in love with it.
(Buffy has heard enough. She backhands Spike across the face. On the subway, Spike falls to the floor and the Slayer jumps on his chest, straddling him. She pounds him repeatedly in the face as the train car's lights go out. When they come back on, the Slayer is on her back with Spike straddling her, his hands around her throat.)

Spike: Death is your art. You make it with your hands, day after day.
(Buffy stares at him, her face a blank mask. The Slayer struggles beneath Spike.)

Spike: That final gasp. That look of peace. Part of you is desperate to know: What's it like? Where does it lead you? And now you see, that's the secret. Not the punch you didn't throw or the kicks you didn't land. Every Slayer... has a death wish.
(Spike grips the Slayer's head between his hands and twists violently, snapping her neck and killing her.)

Spike: (to Buffy) Even you.(Spike stands up and faces Buffy.)
(In the subway, he walks to the end of the car and pulls the emergency cord. As the train grinds to a halt, he returns to the dead Slayer and pulls off her black leather coat.)

Spike: The only reason you've lasted as long as you have is you've got ties to the world... your mum, your brat kid sister, the Scoobies. They all tie you here but you're just putting off the inevitable.
(Spike shrugs into the dead Slayer's coat.)

Spike: Sooner or later, you're gonna want it. And the second- the second- that happens...
(Spike claps his hands together inches from Buffy's face.)

Spike: You know I'll be there. I'll slip in... have myself a real good day.
(He stares intently into Buffy's eyes, then steps back.)

Spike: Here endeth the lesson. I just wonder if you'll like it as much as she did.
(The tension is rising between them.)

Buffy: Spike...
(His passion aroused, Spike leans in to kiss her. She backs away in horror.)

Buffy: What the hell are you doing?
(He grabs Buffy by the arms, his words coming in a breathless pant.)

Spike: Come on. I can feel it, Slayer. You know you want to dance.

Buffy: Say it's true. Say I do want to.
(She shoves him to the ground and looks down at him with disgust.)

Buffy: It wouldn't be you, Spike. It would never be you.
(She tosses the wad of cash at him contemptuously.)

Buffy: You're beneath me.
(Buffy turns and walks off into the night, leaving Spike alone in the dark alley. Spike begins to gather up the money, stifling a sob. As Buffy's words ring down through the years, he becomes the same spurned and awkward young man he once was. Her words have hurt him more than her blows ever have. He closes his eyes in anguish, takes a deep breath, and when he looks up again, only murderous hate remains

- from "Fool for Love" Season 5 Ep. 7 (#) "BtVS" Written by

 

Buffy: Spike, have you completely lost your mind?
Spike: Well, yes, where have you been all night?
Buffy: You thought you would just come back here, and be with me?
Spike: Well, first time for everything.
Buffy: This is all you get...I’m listening. Tell me what happened.
Spike: I tried to find it, of course.
Buffy: Find what?
Spike: The spark. The missing...the piece, that fit...that’ll make me fit. Because you didn’t want...I can’t. Not with you looking. (Gets up and walks into the shadows.) I dreamed of killing you. (Buffy picks up a stake.) I think they were dreams. So weak. Did you make me weak? Thinking of you? Holding myself and spilling useless buckets of salt over your...ending. Angel, he should have warned me...it’s here. In me. All the time. The spark. I wanted to give you...what you deserve. And I got it. They put the spark in me and now all it does is burn.
Buffy: Your soul.
Spike: Bit worse for lack of use.
Buffy: You got your soul back. How?
Spike: It’s what you wanted, right? (Looking to heavens and raising his voice) It’s what you wanted, right? And now everybody’s in here...talking. Everything I did. Everyone I...and him. And it. The other. The thing...beneath. Beneath you. It’s here too. Everybody failed to tell me. Go. Go. To hell.
Buffy: Why? Why would you do...
Spike: Buffy, shame on you. Why would a man do what he musn’t? For her. To be hers. To be the kind of man who would never...to be a kind of man. And she shall look on him with forgiveness and everybody will forgive and love. And he would be loved. So everything’s okay, right. (Leans on cross and starts to smolder) Can we rest now? Buffy...can we rest?

- from "Beneath You" Season 7 Ep. 2 (#124) "BtVS" Written by Douglas Petrie

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Buffy: I was just thinking about the life of a pumkin. Growing up in the sun, happily entwined with others, then someone comes along cuts you open and rips your guts out.
Sander: Okay, on that happy note.

Spivey: I heard it was suicide.
Kate: Supervisor Caffrey shot himself?
Spivey: It happens.
Kate: In the back of the head? Wrapped himself in plastic and he locked himself in the trunk of his car?
Spivey: He'd been depressed.


Spike:You're not friends. You'll never be friends. You'll be in love til it kills you both. You'll fight, and you'll shag, and you'll hate each other til it makes you quiver, but you'll never be friends. Love isn't brains, children. It's blood. Blood screaming inside you to work its will. I may be love's bitch, but at least I'm man enough to admit it.

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Kate: This guy could go to jail tomorrow and still kill her in her dreams every night. I've put a few of these creeps away and the hardest thing is to know that he's still winning. She's still afraid. He took her power away and no one can get it back but her.

It's through the pain that we find the truth of who we are. It strips us of our defenses; we are made innocent again like children. I like children Angel. I'm here to help you find that innocence, here, with the light.
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Most things that live and breathe hate the dark and love the light. We're different though aren't we? We hate the light of day and it hates us back in kind.
-Vampire Torturer, ANGEL, the TV series


Cordelia: See? You can save the damsel *and* make great money. Is this a great country, or what?
Doyle: Hey, let's march down to the bank right now and deposit this beauty (refering to their first paycheck).
Angel: You guys go on. I think I'll stay here and *not* burst into flames.
Doyle: Oh, right, you're pretty much the night-deposit guy.
ANGEL, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" spin-off

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