Buffy Quotes~~

I like this quote from Buffy and wanted to share it:

"Humans have no purpose that unites them, so they just drift around, blundering through life until they die, which they know is coming, yet every single one of them is surprised when it happens to them. They're incapable of thinking about what they want beyond the moment. They kill each other, which is clearly insane... and yet here's the thing. When it's something that really matters, they fight. I mean, they're lame morons for fighting, but they do!"

This is spoken by Anya who is a former vengeance demon who would rip out men's hearts for doing something wrong to a woman. She doesn't really understand human feelings or humans in general, especially mortality because as a vengeance demon she was immortal. I like a lot of the lines she says and a few times in the series she says some really profound things like the quote above. Just about everything she says is very blunt and straightforward: "I don't talk to people much. I mean, I talk to them, but they don't talk to me. Except to say that "your questions are irksome," or "perhaps you should take your furs and your literal interpretations to the other side of the river." Anya is one of my favorite characters; she takes the literal interpretation of everything and just puts it out there like it's normal. In one episode, Anya is playing the game Life and the conversation is as follows:

Anya: Crap! Look at this. I'm burdened with a husband, and several tiny pink children, and more cash than I can reasonably manage…
Xander: That means you're winning.
Anya: Really?
Xander: Yes. Cash equals good.
Anya: Oh! I'm so pleased! Can I trade in the children for more cash?

As someone struggling to accept the concept of death and mortality, I find it interesting as to her views on it. And yes I do know that it's a TV show and it's not possible in real life to know about a previously immortal being's thoughts on mortality. After the death of Buffy's mom (Joyce), Anya says:

"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."

There are just way too many good Anya quotes

Anya: I think we died in this car on the way to the airport, and now we're stuck in hell.
Xander: The radio said no traffic.
Anya: It's a hell radio, of course it said that

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Anya: Thank you for making time in your busy life to come in here and get in the way of mine

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Anya: I can just hear you in private. 'I dislike that Anya. She's newly human and strangely literal.'

Anya also has a weird obsession with money. Later on in Buffy, she gets to co-own a magic shop and she is always talking about her money. This is a pretty random post. But I like it. Because it's random.