Top 10 Buffy the Vampire Slayer Episodes: 1. The Body
“But I don’t understand! I don’t understand how this all happens. How we go through this. I mean, I knew her, and then she’s, there’s just a body, and I don’t understand why she just can’t get back in it and not be dead anymore! It’s stupid! It’s mortal and stupid! And, and Xander’s crying and not talking, and, and I was having fruit punch, and I thought, well Joyce will never have any more fruit punch, ever, and she’ll never have eggs, or yawn or brush her hair, not ever, and no one will explain to me why!”



Top 10 Buffy the Vampire Slayer Episodes: 2. Once More With Feeling
“Life’s not a song. Life isn’t bliss, life is just this. It’s living. You’ll get along. The pain that you feel can only heal by living. You have to go on living. So one of us is living.”



Top 10 Buffy the Vampire Slayer Episodes: 3. Chosen
“I believe we can beat this evil. Not when it comes. Not when its army is ready. Now. Tomorrow morning, I’m going down into the Hellmouth and I am finishing this once and for all. None of you have the power that Faith and I do. So here’s the part where you make a choice. What if you could have that power, now? In every generation, one Slayer is born, because a bunch of men who died thousands of years ago made up that rule. So I say we change the rule. Tomorrow, Willow will use the essence of this scythe to change our destiny. From now on, every girl in the world who might be a Slayer, will be a Slayer. Slayers, every one of us. Make your choice. Are you ready to be strong? “



Top 10 Buffy the Vampire Slayer Episodes: 4. Hush
“Can’t even shout, can’t even cry. The Gentlemen are coming by. Looking in windows, knocking on door.s They need to take seven and they might take yours. Can’t call to mom, can’t say a word. You’re gonna die screaming, but you won’t be heard.”



Top 10 Buffy the Vampire Slayer Episodes: 5. The Wish
“You know what I’ve been asking myself a lot this last week? Why me? Why do *I* get impaled? Why do I get bitten by snakes? Why do I fall for incredible losers? And, you know, I think I’ve finally figured it out. What my problem is. It’s Buffy Summers.”



Top 10 Buffy the Vampire Slayer Episodes: 6. The Zeppo
“Did I mention that I’m having a very strange night?.”



Top 10 Buffy the Vampire Slayer Episodes: 7. Restless
“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. Now give me back my friends.”



Top 10 Buffy the Vampire Slayer Episodes: 8. Selfless
“Vengeance is what I do, Halfrek. I don’t need anything else. Vengeance is what I am.”



Top 10 Buffy the Vampire Slayer Episodes: 9. Passion
“Passion… it lies in all of us. Sleeping, waiting, and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir, open its jaws, and howl. It speaks to us, guides us… passion rules us all. And we obey. What other choice do we have?”



Top 10 Buffy the Vampire Slayer Episodes: 10. The Gift
“Dawn, listen to me. Listen: I love you. I will always love you. This is the work that I have to do. Tell Giles I… tell Giles I figured it out, and I’m okay. Give my love to my friends. You have to take care of them now. You have to take care of each other. You have to be strong. Dawn, the hardest thing in this world is to live in it. Be brave. Live… for me.”