power of words
What are some Buffy lines that just feed your mental/emotional processes?
You know, those lines that just make you shiver and think, and that you always remember.
A friend mentioned the famous line (first in Restless?):
You think you know ... what's to come ... what you are. You haven't even begun...
As a lover of language, my favorite lines tend to be more along the poetic side.
I walk. I talk. I shop, I sneeze. I'm gonna be a fireman when the floods roll back. There's trees in the desert since you moved out. And I don't sleep on a bed of bones. ("Restless")
I think this is so powerful, such a strong statement of friendship and hope and change, and it's so lyrically stated.
Spike's monologue in "Beneath You":
Weak. And did you make me weak? Thinking of you, holding myself, spilling useless buckets of salt over your--
ending.
There's something so aching in this--even coming from a half-mad murderer. There's just such pent-up pain and the visual is so clear and agonizing and loving all at once.
Finally--and I can't even remember which episode it was, but it was another crazy!Spike one (me not remembering the episode probably speaks all the more to the power of the line itself):
Look at you...glowin'. What's a word means glowin'? S'gotta rhyme.
So what are your favorites? Aneglus' Season 2 speech on passion? Whistler's sermon on change? Something Joyce said, or Xander, or Caleb, or Dawn? Some little forgotten line like the "glowin'" one I cited? Do share!
You know, those lines that just make you shiver and think, and that you always remember.
A friend mentioned the famous line (first in Restless?):
You think you know ... what's to come ... what you are. You haven't even begun...
As a lover of language, my favorite lines tend to be more along the poetic side.
I walk. I talk. I shop, I sneeze. I'm gonna be a fireman when the floods roll back. There's trees in the desert since you moved out. And I don't sleep on a bed of bones. ("Restless")
I think this is so powerful, such a strong statement of friendship and hope and change, and it's so lyrically stated.
Spike's monologue in "Beneath You":
Weak. And did you make me weak? Thinking of you, holding myself, spilling useless buckets of salt over your--
ending.
There's something so aching in this--even coming from a half-mad murderer. There's just such pent-up pain and the visual is so clear and agonizing and loving all at once.
Finally--and I can't even remember which episode it was, but it was another crazy!Spike one (me not remembering the episode probably speaks all the more to the power of the line itself):
Look at you...glowin'. What's a word means glowin'? S'gotta rhyme.
So what are your favorites? Aneglus' Season 2 speech on passion? Whistler's sermon on change? Something Joyce said, or Xander, or Caleb, or Dawn? Some little forgotten line like the "glowin'" one I cited? Do share!