- The Beljoxa's Eye: It cannot be fought. It cannot be killed. The First Evil has been and always will be, since before the universe was born. Long after there is nothing else, it will go on.
- Rupert Giles: I refuse to believe that! There must be some way to destroy it!
- The Beljoxa's Eye: What, am I talkin' to myself here? There's no way!
- Anya: Okay, we tried. Let's go, Giles.
- Rupert Giles: Are you saying that the First will succeed in-in wiping out the line of Slayers?
- The Beljoxa's Eye: The Eye sees not the future, only the truth of the now and before.
- Anya: Yes, we've all got that. It's called memory.
- Rona: Um... why is that guy tied to a chair?
- Xander Harris: [sighs] The question you'll soon be asking is, "Why isn't he gagged?"
- Buffy Summers: [to Turok-Han] Looks good, doesn't it? They're trapped in here. Terrified. Meat for the beast. And there's nothin' they can do but wait... That's all they've been doing for days, waiting to be picked off, having nightmares about monsters that can't be killed. But I don't believe in that. I always find a way. I am the thing that monsters have nightmares about. And right now... you and me are gonna show 'em why... It's time... Welcome to Thunderdome.
- Andrew Wells: Two men enter. One man leaves.
- Willow Rosenberg: I needed to make sure. Last time I tried using magic, The First, it... turned it around on me. Got inside. I felt it just surging through me in every fiber of my being. Pure, undiluted evil. I could taste it.
- Kennedy: How's evil taste?
- Willow Rosenberg: A little chalky.
- Xander Harris: Maybe we can save the "maybes" for more of a dayish part of the day, girls... Potential Slayers can function without sleep. Me, I'm no good without my usual ninety minutes.
- Andrew Wells: I'm with him. Keep the chatter down! Or speak up so I can hear you. I'm bored. Episode I bored.
- Spike: [repeated] She will come for me. She will come for me.
- Buffy Summers: [as The First] No... I won't.
- Rona: They told me I'd be safe here.
- Buffy Summers: Right. Well, you are. I mean, you will be... safer... with me around.
- Rona: That's good.
- Buffy Summers: Next time you're attacked...
- Rona: Whoa, whoa. Next time? You sayin' I'm gonna get attacked again?
- Buffy Summers: Welcome to the Hellmouth.
- [to the Potentials after killing the Ubervamp]
- Buffy Summers: Buffy: See? Dust. Just like the rest of 'em... I don't know what's coming next... but I do know it's gonna be just like this. Hard. Painful. But in the end it's gonna be us. If we all do our parts, believe it, we'll be the ones left standing... Here endeth the lesson.
- Kennedy: What's your story, Willow? I mean, witchcraft? Wow. That sounds new-agey.
- Willow Rosenberg: No, it-it's safe to say that what I practice is definitely old-agey.
- Torg: You broke my heart, Anyanka.
- Anya: Don't be so dramatic, Torg. You don't even have a heart! Six spleens, two stomachs, half a brain, maybe, but no heart.
- Torg: Don't mock this. The night we spent together was important to me.
- Anya: It was one date. It wasn't even a d-date.
- [to Giles]
- Anya: We-We just happened to be invited to the same massacre,
- [to Torg]
- Anya: an-and you hit on me after I'd had a few.
- Torg: I remember. You wore pink.
- Anya: Those were entrails.
- Anya: I made the rounds myself, tried to dig up anything useful from the demon community.
- Xander Harris: They're a community, now? What's next? A ladies' auxiliary?
- Rupert Giles: Molly, why don't you show our new guest where the kitchen is. I'm sure she's hungry after her travels.
- Molly: Fair enough. A bit peckish meself.
- Rona: Bit what as well?
- Anya: That's English for hungry.
- Rona: Oh. Here I thought "hungry" was English for hungry.
- Buffy Summers: The First is always gonna be one step ahead of us, Giles. I need to know how to stop it. No, not stop it. Hurt it. I want to hurt it real bad.
- Anya: Okay, Torg, look, you open this tiny little gateway to the Beljoxa's Eye for me, and-and I... you and I can go...
- [sighs]
- Anya: I'll have sex with you, again.
- Torg: Ugh. Please! You gotta- You're human. The way you look now, wouldn't touch you for all the kittens in Korea.
- Anya: You're rejecting my offer of sexual bribery? What am I, a leper in this town? I can't even *give* it away!
- [first lines]
- Bus Driver: Sunnydale. Watch your step... Next stop, Hillcrest.
- Andrew Wells: Okay, here's another interesting thing. How come the Slayer's always a girl?
- Dawn Summers: I don't know. 'Cause girls are cooler?
- Andrew Wells: A guy Slayer would be bad-ass. Like if there was this ninja, a guy Slayer would be like, "You may be silent, but this'll shut you up."
- Dawn Summers: Buffy could stomp ninja ass.
- Andrew Wells: The silent warrior? I think not. She can't even slay that special vampire. Everyone's saying.
- Dawn Summers: Well, everyone should shut up and you should stop pretending anybody here is your friend.
- Andrew Wells: And also, why is she so about saving Spike? He's a worse killer than me by a way lot.
- Dawn Summers: Spike was being controlled by the First. And he has a soul now. Besides, we'll need his help.
- Andrew Wells: What about me? Did it ever occur to anyone that I could be useful? I used to be an evil genius. Hello!
- Dawn Summers: And what was your genius thing?
- Andrew Wells: Well, um, raising demons, mostly. Okay, so not for now. But also there was planning, there were, um, blueprints. I can be in this, kickin' it righteous. Yeah. Oh--oh, yeah.
- Dawn Summers: Buffy said if you talked enough I'm allowed to kill you.
- Andrew Wells: Not even.
- Dawn Summers: Even.
- Andrew Wells: License to kill, huh? Pretty cool. You know, Timothy Dalton never got his props, 'cause he came in at the end of an old regime. But he had it going on. He went rogue. But the Broccolis, they were just treading water, stylistically.
- Dawn Summers: I-Is there a language that you're speaking?
- Andrew Wells: I'm so alone.
- Dawn Summers: Then maybe you shouldn't have killed your only friend.
- Andrew Wells: I hate that. You don't even know.
- Dawn Summers: I don't plan to.