Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV Series)

Lie to Me (1997)

Sarah Michelle Gellar: Buffy Summers

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Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  Buffy Summers : Does it ever get easy?

  [kills a newly risen vampire] 

  Rupert Giles : You mean life?

  Buffy Summers : Yeah. Does it get easy?

  Rupert Giles : What do you want me to say?

  Buffy Summers : Lie to me.

  Rupert Giles : Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true. The bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats. And, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies and... everybody lives happily ever after.

  Buffy Summers : Liar.

• Buffy Summers : Be simpler if I could just hate him... I think he wanted me to. I think it made it easier for him to be the villain of the piece. Really he was just scared.

  Rupert Giles : Yes, I suppose he was.

  Buffy Summers : 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.

  Rupert Giles : I believe that's called growing up.

  Buffy Summers : I'd like to stop then, okay?

• Buffy Summers : ...My God! Could you have a dorkier outfit?

• Angel : Do you love me?

  Buffy Summers : What?

  Angel : Do you?

  Buffy Summers : I love you... I don't know if I trust you.

• Billy 'Ford' Fordham : I'm sorry, Summers. Did I screw up your righteous-anger riff? Does the nest of tumors liquefying my brain kinda spoil the fun?

  Buffy Summers : I'm sorry... I had no idea. But what you're doing is still very wrong.

  Billy 'Ford' Fordham : Okay, well, you try vomiting for twenty-four hours straight because the pain in your head is so intense, and then... we'll discuss the concept of right and wrong... These people are sheep. They wanna be vampires 'cause they're lonely... miserable or bored. I don't have a choice.

  Buffy Summers : You have a choice. You don't have a good choice, but you have a choice. You're opting for mass murder here, and nothing you say is gonna make that okay.

  Billy 'Ford' Fordham : You think I need to justify myself to you?

  Buffy Summers : I think this is all part of your little fantasy drama! Isn't this exactly how you imagined it? You tell me how you've suffered and I feel sorry for you. Well, I do feel sorry for you. And if those vampires come in here and start feeding, I'll kill you myself!

  Billy 'Ford' Fordham : You know what, Summers? I really did miss you.

• Willow Rosenberg : So you two were sweeties in fifth grade?

  Buffy Summers : Not even! Ford wouldn't give me the time of day.

  Billy 'Ford' Fordham : Well, I was a manly sixth-grader. Couldn't be bothered with someone that young.

  Buffy Summers : It was terrible. I moped over you for months. Sitting in my room listening to that Divnyls song "I Touch Myself"...

  Buffy Summers : [realizes what she said, turns sheepishly to Willow and Xander]  Of course, I had no idea what it was about.

• Angel : I did a lot of unconscionable things when I became a vampire... Drusilla was the worst... She was... an obsession of mine. She was pure, and sweet, and chaste.

  Buffy Summers : And you made her a vampire.

  Angel : First I made her insane... I killed everybody she loved... Visited every mental torture on her I could devise... She eventually fled to a convent... And on the day she took her Holy Orders... I turned her into a demon.

• Buffy Summers : Well, I've got a news flash for you, brain trust. That's not how it works. You die and a demon sets up shop in your old house. And it walks and it talks and it remembers your life, but it's not you.

  Billy 'Ford' Fordham : It's better than nothing.

  Buffy Summers : And your life is nothing? Ford, these people don't deserve to die!

  Billy 'Ford' Fordham : Well, neither do I! But apparently no one took that into consideration, 'cause I'm still dying.

• Buffy Summers : I'm rash and impulsive. It's a flaw.

• Buffy Summers : People, listen to me! This is not the mother ship, people. This is ugly dead come to play.

• Buffy Summers : What I see is that, right after the sun goes down, Spike and all of his friends are gonna be pigging out at the All-You-Can-Eat Moron Bar.

  Diego : Okay, that's it. I think we should gag her.

  Buffy Summers : I think you should try.

  Diego : She's an unbeliever. She taints us.

  Buffy Summers : I am trying to save you! You are playing in some serious traffic here! Do you understand that? You're going to die!

• [Buffy is threatening to kill Drusilla] 

  Buffy Summers : Now, you let everybody out or your girlfriend fits in an ashtray.

• [walks up behind Buffy, who has just slain a vampire] 

  Billy 'Ford' Fordham : What's going on?

  Buffy Summers : Um... Uh, there was a-a cat... A cat here. And, um, then there was a-another cat. And they fought. The cats. And... then they left.

  Billy 'Ford' Fordham : Oh. I thought you were just slaying a vampire.

  Buffy Summers : What? Whating a what?

• Angel : Some lies are necessary...

  Buffy Summers : For what?

  Angel : Sometimes the truth is worse. You live long enough, you find that out.