Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV Series)

Gingerbread (1999)

Sarah Michelle Gellar: Buffy Summers

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Quotes 

• Buffy Summers : Like the kid in the story, the boy that stuck his finger in the duck.

  Angel : Dike... it's another word for dam.

  Buffy Summers : Oh... Okay, that story makes a lot more sense now.

  Angel : Buffy, you know, I'm still figuring things out. There's a lot I don't understand... But I do know it's important to keep fighting. I learned that from you.

  Buffy Summers : But we never...

  Angel : We never win.

  Buffy Summers : Not completely.

  Angel : We never will. That's not why we fight. We do it 'cause there's things worth fighting for. Those kids. Their parents...

  Buffy Summers : Their parents.

  Angel : Look, I know it's not much.

  Buffy Summers : No... No, it's a lot.

• Rupert Giles : There is a fringe theory held by a few folklorists that some regional stories have actual, um, very literal antecedents.

  Buffy Summers : And in some language that's English?

  Oz : Fairy tales are real.

  Buffy Summers : Hans and Gre... Hansel and Gretel?

  Xander Harris : Wait. Hansel and Gretel? Bread crumbs, ovens, gingerbread house?

  Rupert Giles : Of course... Well, it makes sense now.

  Buffy Summers : Yeah, it's all falling into place. Of course, that place is nowhere near this place.

  Rupert Giles : Some demons thrive by fostering hatred and-and, uh, persecution amongst the mortal animals. Not by-Not by destroying men, but by watching men destroy each other. Now, they feed us our darkest fear and turn peaceful communities into vigilantes.

  Buffy Summers : Hansel and Gretel run home to tell everyone about the mean old witch.

  Rupert Giles : And then she and probably dozens of others are persecuted by a righteous mob. It's happened all throughout history. Happened in Salem, not surprisingly.

• Cordelia Chase : You're going to be one busy little Slayer, baby-sitting them.

  Buffy Summers : I doubt they'll have any more trouble.

  Cordelia Chase : I doubt your doubt. Everyone knows that witches killed those kids, and Amy is a witch. And Michael is whatever the boy of witch is, plus being the poster child for *yuck*.

  Buffy Summers : Corde...

  Cordelia Chase : If you hang with them, expect badness. 'Cause that's what you get when you hang with freaks and losers. Believe me, I know.

  [starts to walk away] 

  Cordelia Chase : That was a pointed comment about me hanging with you guys.

• Xander Harris : Look, everyone expects me to mess up again. Like Oz. I see how he is around me. You know, that steely gaze, that pointed silence.

  Buffy Summers : 'Cause he's usually such a chatterbox.

  Xander Harris : No, but it's different now. It's more a verbal nonverbal. He speaks volumes with his eyes.

• Rupert Giles : They're confiscating my books.

  Buffy Summers : Giles, we need those books.

  Rupert Giles : Believe me, I've tried to tell that to the nice man with the big gun.

• [last lines] 

  Buffy Summers : Okay, should we try this again?

  Willow Rosenberg : Let's do it. I think we got the mix of herbs right this time.

  Buffy Summers : Okay. Ready?

  [lights the incense] 

  Willow Rosenberg : [incanting]  Diana, Hecate, I hereby license thee to depart. Goddess of creatures great and small, I conjure thee to withdraw.

  [they both look at the Amy-rat but nothing happens] 

  Buffy Summers : Maybe we should get her one of those wheel thingies.

• Willow Rosenberg : [threatening to use magic]  You've seen what we can do. Another step and you will all feel my power.

  Buffy Summers : What are you gonna do, float a pencil at them?

• Buffy Summers : Mom, dead people are talking to you! Do the math.

• Amy Madison : All right! You wanna fry a witch? I'll give you a witch! Goddess Hecate, work thy will.

  Buffy Summers : Uh-oh.

  Amy Madison : Before thee let the unclean thing crawl!

  [Amy turns herself into a rat] 

• [first lines] 

  Joyce Summers : [entering]  Is it a vampire?

  Buffy Summers : Mom, what are you doing here?

  Joyce Summers : I brought you a snack... I thought it was about time for me to come out and watch. Yo-You know, the slaying.

  Buffy Summers : You know, the slaying is kind of an alone thing.

  Joyce Summers : But it's such a big part of your life, and I'd like to understand it. It's some, you know, something we could share.

  Buffy Summers : A-Actually, it's pretty dull, you know. It's... bam boom stick... poof.

• Joyce Summers : Are you embarrassed to be hanging out with your mother? I didn't hug you.

  Buffy Summers : No. It's just... This hall is about school, and you're about home. Mix them, my world dissolves.

• Buffy Summers : They've never been seen alive, just dead... A lot!

• Buffy Summers : Then while you're looking for the meaning of that symbol thingy, could you also find a loophole in that "Slayers don't kill people" rule?

• Buffy Summers : What are they looking for?

  Amy Madison : Witch stuff.