Willow Rosenberg

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Alyson Hannigan
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Willow Rosenberg Quotes

	Season 7 / Episode 21: - End of Days Willow Rosenberg: So it's true: scythe matters.
	Season 7 / Episode 21: - End of Days Willow Rosenberg: [about using magic] If I-I tried something big, I'd change. And-and then it's all black hair and veins and lightning bolts. I can hardly do a locator spell without getting dark roots.
	Season 7 / Episode 12: - Potential Xander: Oh, good God, what is that smell? Anya: Um, fairly sure that's the smell of a hardboiled egg being thrown into a fire. Xander: Uh-huh. Willow Rosenberg: The smell will lead us to the Potential. Xander: Or some poor soul who ate too many chimichangas.
	Season 7 / Episode 12: - Potential Buffy: I was only gone a couple of hours. Willow Rosenberg: Buffy. Buffy: Hey, everybody, look. It's Willow. Perhaps with a blunt weapon of some sort.
	Season 7 / Episode 12: - Potential Willow Rosenberg: I got my tumbleweed, my eggs. Got my chrysalises... chrysali? Willow Rosenberg: My butterfly transformer pods.
	Season 7 / Episode 9: - Never Leave Me Buffy Summers: [about Spike] He-he mentioned something about a song in the cellar. Uh, and he-he changed there, too - I mean, instantly became another person. Xander Harris: Trigger. Anya: The horse? Xander Harris: No, in his head. It's a trigger. It's a brainwashing term. I-It's how the military makes sleeper agents. They, they brainwash operatives and condition them with a specific trigger, like a song, that makes 'em drastically change at a moment's notice. Willow Rosenberg: Is this left over from your days in the Army? Xander Harris: No, this is left over from every Army movie I've ever seen.
	Season 7 / Episode 9: - Never Leave Me Buffy Summers: [Talking about Spike] He's been feasting on humans for weeks. He's having some pretty bad withdrawals. I think we need to get him some blood. Willow Rosenberg: Do you want me to kill Anya?
	Season 7 / Episode 9: - Never Leave Me Andrew Wells: Don't kill me! Willow Rosenberg: I'm not gonna kill you! Andrew Wells: Don't torture me and send me to an eternal pain dimension! Willow Rosenberg: I'm not gonna! Andrew Wells: Warren killed Tara. I didn't do it, and he was aiming for Buffy anyway. Willow Rosenberg: Not making it better. Andrew Wells: And you got your revenge. You killed my best friend. We're even. Willow Rosenberg: Even? You think I get satisfaction from what I did? Andrew Wells: Maybe not, but let me keep my skin, okay? I'm not bad, I'm not bad anymore. I'm good, I do good things now. Willow Rosenberg: Then, why do you need lots and lots of blood? Andrew Wells: I am bad. I'm bad. I'm evil. But I'm protected by powerful forces. Forces you can't even begin to imagine, little girl. If you harm me you shall know the wrath of he that is darkness and terror. Your blood will boil and you will know true suffering. Stand down, she-witch, your defeat is at hand... Willow Rosenberg: Shut your mouth! I AM a she-witch. A very powerful she-witch. Or "witch" as is more accurate. I am not to be trifled with... Andrew Wells: But I... Willow Rosenberg: I'm talking, don't interrupt me, insignificant man! I am Willow, I am Death. If you dare defy me, I will call down my fury, exact fresh vengeance, and make your worst fears come true! Okay?
	Season 7 / Episode 8: - Sleeper Anya: Well, if Spike is biting people again then shouldn't there be more dead people with neck trauma? Right? And we can find that. Willow Rosenberg: [Types something into her laptop] No. Anya: No we can't find that? But that's easy. That computer's a moron.
	Season 7 / Episode 4: - Help Willow Rosenberg: [to Buffy] Have you Googled her yet? Xander Harris: Willow, she's seventeen! Willow Rosenberg: It's a search engine.
	Season 7 / Episode 4: - Help Xander Harris: Figuring out how to control your magic seems a lot like hammering a nail. Well, uh, hear me out. So you're hammering, right? If you hold the end of the hammer, you have the power, but no control. It takes, like, two strokes to hit the nail in, or you could hit your thumb. Willow Rosenberg: Ouch. Xander Harris: So you choke up. Control, but no power. It could take, like, ten strokes to knock the nail in. Power, control. It's a tradeoff. Willow Rosenberg: That's actually not a bad analogy. Xander Harris: Thanks. Willow Rosenberg: Except I'm less worried about hitting my thumb, and more worried about going all black-eyed baddy and bewitching that hammer into cracking my friends' skulls open like coconuts. Xander Harris: Right. Ouch.
	Season 7 / Episode 2: - Beneath You Rupert Giles: You may not be wanted, but you will be needed. Willow Rosenberg: That all you got?
	Season 7 / Episode 1: - Lessons Rupert Giles: That's the flora kua alaya. A native of Paraguay, if my botany serves. Willow Rosenberg: Is there anything you don't know everything about? Rupert Giles: Synchronized swimming. Complete mystery to me.
	Season 7 / Episode 1: - Lessons Willow Rosenberg: The coven is - they're the most amazing women I've ever met. But there's this-this look that they get. Like I'm gonna turn them all into bangers and mash, or something. Which, I'm not even really sure what that is.
	Season 7 / Episode 1: - Lessons Willow Rosenberg: When you brought me here, I thought it was to kill me or to lock me in some mystical dungeon for all eternity or... with the torture. Instead, you go all Dumbledore on me.
	Season 6 / Episode 21: - Two to Go (1) Buffy Summers: Are we really gonna do this? Willow Rosenberg: Come on, this is a huge deal for me. Six years as a sideman, now I get to be the Slayer. Buffy Summers: A killer isn't a Slayer. Being the Slayer means something you can't conceive of. Willow Rosenberg: Oh, Buffy. You really need to have every square inch of your ass kicked. Buffy Summers: Then show me what you got, and I'll show you what a slayer really is.
	Season 6 / Episode 21: - Two to Go (1) Willow Rosenberg: Buffy, I gotta tell ya. I get it, now. The Slayer thing really isn't about the violence. It's about the power. Willow Rosenberg: And there's no one in the world who has the power to stop me now. Rupert Giles: I'd like to test that theory.
	Season 6 / Episode 21: - Two to Go (1) Buffy Summers: I don't wanna hurt you. Willow Rosenberg: Not a problem. Buffy Summers: I said I didn't want to. Didn't say I wouldn't.
	Season 6 / Episode 21: - Two to Go (1) Buffy Summers: You have to listen to me. The forces inside you are incredibly powerful. They're strong, but you're stronger. You have to remember you're still Willow. Willow Rosenberg: Let me tell you something about Willow. She's a loser, and she always has been. People picked on Willow in junior high school, high school, up until college with her stupid mousy ways. And now... Willow's a junkie. Buffy Summers: I can help. Willow Rosenberg: The only thing Willow was ever good for... the only thing I had going for me... were the moments, just moments, when Tara would look at me and I was wonderful. And that will never happen again! Buffy Summers: I know this hurts... bad. But, Willow, if you let loose with the magics it'll never end. Willow Rosenberg: [sarcastic] Promise? Buffy Summers: You don't want that. Willow Rosenberg: Why not? Buffy Summers: Because you'll lose everything... your friends, yourself. Willow, if you let this control you, then the world goes away, and all of us with it. There's so much to live for. [stammering] Wil... there's too much... to... Willow Rosenberg: [cutting her off] Oh, please! This is your pitch? Buffy, you hate it here as much as I do. I'm just more honest about it. Buffy Summers: That's not true. Willow Rosenberg: [scoffs] You're trying to sell me on the world? The one where you lie to your friends when you're not trying to kill them? And you screw a vampire just to feel? And insane asylums are the comfy alternative? This world? Buffy, it's me. I know you were happier when you were in the ground. The only time you were ever at peace in your whole life was when you were dead, until Willow brought you back. You know... with magic.
	Season 6 / Episode 20: - Villains Warren Meers: Please! God! I did wrong, I see that now. I need, I need jail! I need... But you, you don't want this. You're, you're not a bad person. Not like me. Buffy: [still trying to find her] Willow! Warren Meers: Oh, and when you get caught... you'll lose them too. Your friends. You don't want that. I know you're in pain, but... Willow Rosenberg: Bored now. Xander: Oh, my God. Buffy: What did you do? Willow, what did you do? Willow Rosenberg: One down...
	Season 6 / Episode 20: - Villains Buffy: Willow, please, just stop. We love you, and Tara. But we don't kill humans. It's not the way. Willow Rosenberg: How can you say that? Tara is dead! Buffy: I know, I know. And I can't understand anything. Not what happened, a-and not what you must be going through. Willow, if you do this, you let Warren destroy you, too. Xander: You said it yourself, Wil, the magic's too strong. There's no coming back from it. Willow Rosenberg: I'm not coming back. Buffy: Wil, please. Please, we'll get through this together. Willow Rosenberg: We won't. Not your way. Buffy: Please, just... Willow Rosenberg: [interupting] No! No more talking. It's done!
	Season 6 / Episode 16: - Hell's Bells Willow Rosenberg: Buffy, it's hideous. Oh my god, Buffy. Look at its arms! Buffy Summers: I know. But it's my duty. [Longer shot shows their ugly, venomous-green dresses] I'm... Buffy the bridesmaid. Willow Rosenberg: Duty-schmuty. I'm supposed to be best man. Shouldn't I be all Marlene Dietrich-y in a dashing tuxedo number?
	Season 6 / Episode 16: - Hell's Bells Xander: It's dead. Buffy: Yep. Willow Rosenberg: Is anyone else waiting for it to go poof? Maybe we can cover it with flowers.
	Season 6 / Episode 14: - Older and Far Away Willow Rosenberg: See? I-it's a battery-operated back massager. And it's portable so you can take it with you on patrol. Buffy Summers: Wow. Willow Rosenberg: It's like, instant gratification for all your little acheys. Buffy Summers: [Blushes] Great! Thanks! Uh, what's next?
	Season 6 / Episode 14: - Older and Far Away Dawn Summers: Does anybody wanna come to the mall with me for birthday presents? Willow Rosenberg: Oh, I would, honey, but I've got my group. You know, the whole Spellcasters Anonymous thing... We're still looking for a better name.
	Season 6 / Episode 13: - Dead Things Xander Harris: Hey, I see sitting where there should be dancing. Anya: Come share in the joy of our groove thang. Willow Rosenberg: And despite that, I succumb to the beat.
	Season 6 / Episode 12: - Doublemeat Palace Willow Rosenberg: A-and they had other stuff. You know, razor scooters, and pictures of the Vulcan woman on Enterprise. Xander Harris: Oooo! [at Anya's look] I mean, nerds.
	Season 6 / Episode 8: - Tabula Rasa Willow Rosenberg: How you doin', Dawn? Dawn: Uh, I'm okay. It's scary... but, weirdly, kind of familiar. Willow Rosenberg: I know what you mean. Dawn: How are you? Willow Rosenberg: A little confused. I mean, I'm, uh, all sweaty and trapped, no memory, hiding in a pipe from a vampire... and I think I'm kinda gay.
	Season 6 / Episode 6: - All The Way Willow Rosenberg: [angrily scolding a woman in traditional witch costume] I'm just saying you might wanna rethink the stereotype before someone turns you into a toad. [the woman walks away] And while you're at it, why don't you try removing that broomstick from your- [catches herself] Dawn! Dawn: Hey. Don't stop the invective on account of me. Willow Rosenberg: If I see one more idiot that thinks witches are all hairy moles and rotten teeth... Witchypoo: [little girl dressed in traditional witch costume too] Excuse me, do you have any candy corn? Willow Rosenberg: Oh, look at you! You are just the cutest thing! Dawn: But, I-I thought you said... Willow Rosenberg: I know, but look, with the hat, and the-the wart! Oh! Let's go fill your tummy up with sugary niblets, okay?
	Season 6 / Episode 6: - All The Way Rupert Giles: [after Anya decides to have an after-holiday sale] Brooms all around, then. Willow Rosenberg: Or I could whip up a jaunty self-cleaning incantation. It'll be like Fantasia. Rupert Giles: We all know how splendidly that turned out for Mickey. Willow Rosenberg: I think I'm a little more adept than a cartoon mouse. Tara Maclay: And you have more fingers, which is good, 'cause then there's no need to wear those big, white gloves to overcompensate.

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