- Buffy Summers: Buffy the Vampire Slayer would break down this door.
- Xander Harris: And Buffy the Counselor?
- Buffy Summers: Waits.
- Willow Rosenberg: [to Buffy] Have you Googled her yet?
- Xander Harris: Willow, she's seventeen!
- Willow Rosenberg: It's a search engine.
- Willow Rosenberg: I-I don't know what I can do? I mean, frankly, I'm- I'm scared of what I *might* do.
- Xander Harris: Yeah, I get that. Figuring out how to control your magic seems a lot like hammering a nail. Well, uh, hear me out. So you're hammering, right? If you hold the end of the hammer, you have the power, but no control. It takes, like, two strokes to hit the nail in, or you could hit your thumb.
- Willow Rosenberg: Ouch.
- Xander Harris: So you choke up. Control, but no power. It could take, like, ten strokes to knock the nail in. Power, control. It's a tradeoff.
- Willow Rosenberg: That's actually not a bad analogy.
- Xander Harris: Thanks.
- Willow Rosenberg: Except I'm less worried about hitting my thumb, and more worried about going all black-eyed baddy and bewitching that hammer into cracking my friends' skulls open like coconuts.
- Xander Harris: Right. Ouch.
- Cassie Newton: You think I want this? You think I don't care? Believe me, I *want* to be here. Uh, do things. I wanna graduate from high school, and I wanna go to the stupid Winter Formal. I have this friend, and... it would be fun to go with him. Just to dance and hear lame music. To wear a silly dress and laugh and stuff... I'd like to go. There's a lot of stuff I'd like to do. I'd love to ice skate at Rockefeller Center. And I'd love to see my cousins grow up and see how they turn out, 'cause they're really mean, and I think they're gonna be fat... I'd love to backpack across the country or, I don't know, fall in love. But I won't... I just never will.
- Xander Harris: "From beneath you, it devours." It's not the friendliest jingle, is it? It's no "I like Ike" or "Milk. It does a body good."
- Buffy Summers: Do you know how lame this is? Bored teenage boys tryin' to raise up a demon? Sorry he didn't show. I bet it's 'cause you forgot the boom box playing some heavy metal thing, like Blue Clam Cult? I think *that's* the key to the raising of lame demons.
- Dawn Summers: She looks...
- Buffy Summers: Peaceful.
- Dead Woman: I am not peaceful.
- Buffy Summers: *That* I can help with.
- [stakes vampire]
- Buffy Summers: I always thought closed caskets were more tasteful anyway.
- Principal Robin Wood: Every time there's a threat like this, we do the same dance. Inform teachers. Search lockers. But we can't, we can't know what's gonna happen, and we can't search their brains. We just... We just do what we can.
- Buffy Summers: It's not enough. I need to fix this. I don't usually get a heads-up before somebody dies.
- Principal Robin Wood: What do you mean usually?
- Buffy Summers: No. No, not since... I-I mean, I'm-I'm sure it's not usual to get a chance to stop something like- I just- I need to do smething, okay?
- Peter Nicols: Almighty Avilas, please accept our sacrifice. Please appear before us, oh mighty soldier of the dark. Please appear before us and grant us with infinite riches, and we will pay you with our sacrifice. We kneel before you with the gift of flesh.
- [Buffy appears from hiding]
- Buffy Summers: Okay. That... is going on your permanent record.
- Buffy Summers: You have to stick up for yourself, Amanda. You need to show this bully that you're not going to take anymore of his shi- guff. Any guff.
- Dawn Summers: [to Buffy] You know, I'm not the shortest one here. I don't know what I had to be in the kid coffin.
- Buffy Summers: There's Willow. There's the looming humongo bad. And it's a school night. I should be home in bed cuddling up to my insomnia and worrying about how I'm going to mess up tomorrow.
- Buffy Summers: You aren't mad at Cassie with her rejecting you like that?
- Mike Helgenberg: [chuckles] Nah. She's a girl, right? Making boys crazy is, like, your job description.
- Peter Nicols: Help. Help me, please. I'm bleeding.
- Buffy Summers: Sorry. My office hours are 10:00 to 4:00.
- [last lines]
- Dawn Summers: I guess sometimes you can't help.
- Buffy Summers: So what then? What do you do when you *know *that? When you know that maybe... you can't help?
- [first lines]
- Mortuary Man #1: [off-screen] You did good work on her. She looks good.
- Mortuary Man #2: [off-screen] Thanks. She's all set for the service tomorrow.
- Mortuary Man #1: [off-screen] Good... All right, then. I'll see you in the morning.
- Mortuary Man #2: [off-screen] Good night.