Ask me why I'm smiling.
CordeliaI will because it's scaring me.
A character in Angel
Played by Charisma Carpenter
Angel · 793 quotes
3rd most-quoted character in Angel: in 190 of its 793 quotes
Most scenes with: Puppet Angel (93), Wesley Wyndam-Pryce (68), Charles Gunn (33)
Ask me why I'm smiling.
CordeliaI will because it's scaring me.
Why can't you have sex?
CordeliaBecause I could lose my virginity.
If you want to play it that way..
CordeliaVISIONity. The visions. In Pylea the visions were supposed to pass on to Groo if we ever did the royal "com-shuk". How do I know that won't happen here?
Good point. You really don't.
But your recent transformation could have changed all that. It might be possible...
[Angel kicks the table to interrupt]
Still, you know. Better safe than sorry. You're doing the right thing.
CordeliaI know. I know. I can't risk it. It's just.. I'm so.. And he's such a.. Don't you think?
[Angel and Wesley start to agree reluctantly]
CordeliaI mean there's got to be other things we could do to relieve the tension.
Jogging could be a thing.
Or perhaps there's some form of paranormal prophylactic...
Cause you know, jogging...
CordeliaI guess we could probably "com" without actually "shuk"ing.
Well, I don't know. That could be a slippery slope that.. Once you're on that.. That you could.. Slide..
CordeliaAngel --
I know.
We are surrounded.
I know.
We have to save Charles!
I know!
CordeliaI know you don't want to talk about it but you don't mess with dark magics and expect to just walk away like it doesn't matter.
Doesn't matter. It was a waste of time.
CordeliaStill, I should probably know what kind of spell it was. You know there's almost always some cosmic price to using primordial powers. There could be repercussions. And you know the one person who might be able to help us with that isn't around any more.
[Angel gives her a stare.]
CordeliaNot going there. Just saying..
[Angel walks away.]
CordeliaYou can run away and avoid talking about this but you know as well as I do: stuff we do in the past usually comes back to bite us in our respective assi and what you did...
Okay, so maybe I wasn't thinking too clearly. I mean I was drunk for awhile there, drunk in my own son's blood, slipped into my food by the good folks at Wolfram and Hart. And my head was little clouded with rage over a trusted friend stealing my child from me.. Damn it Cordelia, you got me talking about this.
Couple weeks ago, he was wearin' diapers. Now he's a teenager?
CordeliaTell me we don't live in a soap opera.
Princess, perhaps your newfound powers can seal it shut.
CordeliaCan't hurt to try.
[raises her hands]
CordeliaI command you close!
[nothing happens]
ChaseOkay, I got nothin'.
I don't even own a TV. He's gonna wanna watch TV. Not too much, I mean, after homework and chores. He's gonna need clothes, weekly allowance... What's good nowadays? Fifty cents, a dollar?
CordeliaYeah. If you're Tom Sawyer painting the fence.
See? I'm so out of touch.
CordeliaWell, what about rebuilding your club here?
Well, that's a great idea, pixiecat, except every time I do, you all seem to destroy it.
CordeliaIt was only (pauses and looks ashamed) three times.
Might I further relieve you by at first gently and then more rapidly rubbing your schlug-tee?
CordeliaUh, I don't really, um... Maybe later at home. [whispers] I don't feel comfortable doing it in the office, Groo.
Doing it?
CordeliaSex.
[too loudly] Oh, you wish to have sex!
CordeliaWhat? No! Shh!
I was proposing a massage of your schlug-tee. Your tense neck muscle. But, it is always an honor to make sex with you! [whispers] Later at home. I understand perfectly.
I found Holtz.
CordeliaAnd?
I didn't kill him.
CordeliaMaybe you're growing as a person.
[Angel sways on his feet then leans against the wall. Fed and Gunn run over to him.]
Angel!
All that talking really takes it out of you.
You need rest.
I need Cordy, now. Wherever she is, whatever she's going through, we have to find her. [panning out to the sky]
Cordelia[glowing among other higher beings] God, I am so bored.
CordeliaWas I a nun?
A what?
CordeliaWere we not a happy family because I was a nun? [reaches over to a box next to her] I was going through my stuff [grabs a handful of rosaries] and I found all these—
[Cordelia puts numerous rosaries adorned with crucifixes in Angel's hands, causing him to vamp out uncontrollably.]
[Wesley and Gunn are wrestling.]
Cordelia[to Angel] Are you going to stop this?
High time the English got what's coming to 'em. I'm rooting for the slave!
Cordelia? Were we in love?
CordeliaWe were.
CordeliaOK. What the hell is goin' on here?
What's your name?
CordeliaI'm Cordelia Chase, dumbass. And if this is some sort of sophomore hazing prank where I get doped up and left with a bunch of proto-losers, then my parents are gonna be suing the entire population of Sunnydale. Comprendez?
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