- Dawn Summers: You wanna know what I'm scared of, Spike...? Me... Right now, Glory thinks Tara's the Key. But I'm the Key, Spike. I am. And anything that happens to Tara... is 'cause of me. Your bruises, your limp... that's all me, too. I'm like a lightning rod for pain and hurt... And everyone around me suffers and dies. I... must be something so horrible to cause so much pain and evil.
- Spike: Rot.
- Dawn Summers: What do you know?
- Spike: I'm a vampire. I know something about evil. You're not evil.
- Dawn Summers: Maybe... I'm not evil. But I don't think I can be good.
- Spike: Well, I'm not good, and I'm okay.
- Rupert Giles: You all right?
- Willow Rosenberg: Yeah.
- Rupert Giles: Ah, yes, 'cause your good mood is both obvious and contagious.
- Rupert Giles: Well, I hope this isn't a return. Everyone wants petrified hamsters, and they're never happy with them.
- Buffy Summers: She was looking to go all paybacky on Glory for a minute, but I cooled her down a little. Actually, a lot.
- Spike: So she's not gonna do anything rash then.
- Buffy Summers: No. I explained there was no point.
- Spike: Mm-hmm.
- Buffy Summers: What?
- Spike: You- So you're saying that a *powerful* and mightily pissed-off witch was planning on goin' and spillin' herself a few pints of god blood until you, what..."explained"?
- Buffy Summers: You think she- No. I told Willow it would be like suicide.
- Spike: I'd do it... Right person. Person I loved. I'd do it.
- Willow Rosenberg: Kali, Hera, Kronos, Thonic, air like nectar, thick as onyx, Cassiel by your second star...
- Glory: Oh, it's the *lover*. That's so cute.
- Willow Rosenberg: Hold mine victim, as in tar.
- [Glory is held in place and looks at Willow in surprise]
- Willow Rosenberg: I owe you pain!
- Willow Rosenberg: Buffy what?
- Tara Maclay: Understandable about the crabby. She has to look after Dawn now.
- Willow Rosenberg: Well, yeah, but not in a Miss-Minchin's-Select-Seminary-For-Girls way. I mean, she's just gonna make Dawnie more rebellious.
- Tara Maclay: I had to deal with my brother's problems after... I mean, you can't really know what it's like to...
- Willow Rosenberg: Yeah, I know that.
- Buffy Summers: Damn it, Dawn! This is serious.
- Dawn Summers: Why? Why should I care about *any* of this?
- Buffy Summers: Because they'll take you away...
- Dawn Summers: Take me away? What do you mean?
- Buffy Summers: They'll take you away from me... That's what your principal told me when you weren't in the room. If I can't make you to go to school, then I won't be found fit to be your legal guardian.
- [last lines]
- Tara Maclay: [about Dawn] Oh, look at that. Look at that. Oh, the light. Oh, it's so pure. Such pure, green energy. Oh, it's so beautiful.
- [first lines]
- Buffy Summers: Professor Lillian?
- Professor Lillian: Buffy.
- Buffy Summers: I'm sorry that I missed the lecture today.
- Xander Harris: [about the hospital] Man, words cannot express how much I hate this place.
- Rupert Giles: It's dreadful.
- Anya: It's like communism.
- Willow Rosenberg: I had a fight with Tara. It was awful.
- Rupert Giles: Oh, I'm sorry.
- Willow Rosenberg: Me too.
- Rupert Giles: You two don't quarrel much, do you?
- Willow Rosenberg: Never. Until today.
- Rupert Giles: Ah, well, it's over
- Willow Rosenberg: Over? How can it be over? I-I just found her.
- Rupert Giles: The *quarrel* is over
- Willow Rosenberg: Oh. Yeah.
- Rupert Giles: And you'll feel better when you've made your apologies and you'll know that you can fight without the world ending.