Buffy-isms Part 1

Finally got hold of the whole seven seasons of Buffy on DVD and I'm on a roll! Hehe. Have been doing a Buffy marathon for three days straight now and I'm now two episodes away from Season 4. Re-watching Buffy after ten years (it piloted in 1996) is quite refreshing. Ooohhh... and seeing Oz and Spike again?!!??! :::sigh:::

Oh well.

Hehe.

Anyhoo, although it never really rated much (in the US nor here), Buffy had a cult following. Yeah, people like me. Hah! I got depressed for a week after the series folded. For real. Boo hoo.

One thing that made Buffy stand out were its lines. They were to die for (pun intended)! Especially that of Xander's. And Cordelia's. And Willow's. And... errr... Buffy's. Heck! They were all astoundingly witty! Well, of course, the writers were responsible for that. But the actors can be commended too for actually making it work. But I digress.

As a tribute of sorts to one of the most inspiring TV series I've encountered in my life, here are a couple of heart-wrenching lines -- otherwise known as Buffy-isms -- from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It sure feels like having a stake drive through your heart (pun intended again).

Read 'em and weep.

We are defined by the things we fear...
But fear is in the mind. Like pain.
It can be controlled.
If I can face my fear, it cannot master me. - The Master

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I can be surrounded by people but feel completely alone. - Cordelia

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People don't fall in love with what's right in front of them. People want to dream of what they can't have. The more unattainable, the more attractive. - Xander

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Buffy: Love makes people do crazy things
Angel: Like a 241-year old man getting jealous of a high school boy?
Buffy: I don't love Xander
Angel: But he's in your life

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There are times lies are necessary. Sometimes the truth is worse. - Angel

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It's simple if I could just hate him. I think he wanted me to. It made it easier for him to be the villain in the picture. - Buffy

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Nothing's ever simple anymore. I'm constantly trying to work it out. Who to love or hate... Who to trust... It's just like the more I know, the more confused I get. - Buffy

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You're the one freaky thing in my freaky world that makes sense to me. It just gets pretty messed up sometimes. - Buffy

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I sometimes like things that are not good for me. - Xander

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Don't you have an elsewhere you have to be? - Cordelia

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You can't just bury stuff. It will come right back up to get you. - Xander

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Sometimes even when two people seem right for each other, their lives just take different paths. - Joyce Summers

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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. Love isn't brain, children. It's blood -- blood screaming inside you to work its will. - Spike

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We're not friends. We never were. I can fool my friends, but I can't fool myself. What I want from you, I can never have. - Buffy

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It bugs you doesn't it? You have all this pain, all these feelings and nobody is really paying attention. - Buffy

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It's weird. You look at something and you think you know exactly what you're seeing and then you find out it's something else entirely. - Buffy