Tara Maclay quotes from Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Willow

Hey.

Tara

Hey. I just... B-Buffy didn't come home last night... either, so...

Willow

Uh, hey, uh, this is Amy. Amy, Tara. Tara, Amy.

Amy

How you doin'?

Tara

Fine, I-I'd b-better g-get going. [Tara turns to go]

Willow

Amy! Amy the rat? Sorry.

Amy

No, that's fair. I was a rat.

Tara

So, uh, the burger was good, you liked it?

Dawn

Are you kidding, it was like a meat party in my mouth! ...Okay, now I'm just a kid and even I know that came out wrong.

Buffy

Are you sure?

Tara

I've double-checked everything. There's nothing wrong with you.

Buffy

Then why can Spike hurt me?

Tara

Well, I-I said that there was nothing wrong with you, but you are different. Shifting you out of, fr-from where you were, funneling your essence back into your body, it altered you on a basic, molecular level, probably just enough to confuse the sensors or whatever in Spike's chip, but it's all just surfacey, physical stuff. It would have anymore effect than a bad sunburn.

Buffy

I didn't come back wrong?

Tara

No, you're the same Buffy, with a deep, tropical cellular tan.

Buffy

You must've missed something. Will you check again?

Tara

Buffy, I-I promise. There's nothing wrong with you.

Buffy

There has to be. This just can't be me. It isn't me. [starting to cry] Why do I feel like this? Why do I let Spike do those things to me?

Tara

You mean hit you?

Tara

[awkwardly] Oh. Oh, huh... really.

Buffy

He's everything I hate. He's everything that, I'm supposed to be against, but the only time that I ever feel anything is when... Don't tell anyone, please.

Tara

I won't.

Buffy

[crying] Oh, the way they would look at me... I just couldn't...

Tara

I won't tell anyone. I wouldn't do that.

Buffy

Why can't I stop? Why do I keep letting him in?

Tara

Do you love him? I-It's okay if you do. He's done a lot of good, and, and he does love you. A-and, Buffy, it's okay if you don't. You're going through a really hard time, and you're...

Buffy

What? Using him? What's okay about that?

Tara

It's not that simple.

Buffy

It is. It's wrong. I'm wrong. Tell me that I'm wrong, please. [starts sobbing] Please don't forgive me. Please! God, please don't. [sobbing] Please don't forgive me! Please don't!

Spike

I had a... muscle cramp. Buffy was, uh, helping.

Tara

A muscle cramp? In your... pants?

Spike

What? It's a thing.

Tara

So Spike! How's that muscle cramp?

Spike

What? Oh... uh... yeah. Better.

Tara

[smirking] Maybe you, uh, wanna put some ice on it.

It's dangerous, and so is all of us dying.

Xander

Will, look I don't wanna gang up on you, but Anya kinda has a point. We brought you back from it once, we're all here. It's one little spell. Whatever happens we can bring you back again.

Willow

No, I can't. If I start I.. I might not be able to stop.

And whose fault is that?? You know if you hadn't gotten so much of this in your system in the first place--

Tara

Hey! You're gonna back off. She said no and that's it. You're not gonna make her do something that she doesn't want to. And if you try, you have to go through me first. Understood?

Buffy

Dawn?

Dawn

What?

Buffy

Did you do something?

Dawn

Me?

Tara

Do you know something? 'Cause we want you to feel like you can tell us.

Dawn

What would I know?

Willow

Look, we're not accusing you of anything. It's just, you were kind of taking it personal down there.

Dawn

Oh, okay. So you've all just decided that somehow I'm responsible. Great. Here's me basking in the love.

Xander

No, it's just, you know, you're upset 'cause we all want to leave. But now we can't leave. Only thing missing is a cornfield. There-- There isn't a cornfield, is there?

Buffy

Dawn, it's okay. You know, we're not gonna be mad.

Dawn

Yeah, only I didn't do anything.

Willow

You sure?

Dawn

You want me to ask my other self?

Buffy

Dawn, we're just trying to figure out what's going on.

Dawn

Figure it out yourself. I'm done being talked to like a kid.

Xander

Well, 'cause you know, sometimes we do something that seems like a good idea at the same time, like, say, invoke the power of a musical amulet. And it turns out, you know, not so much.

Dawn

God! I didn't do anything! I wish I had. I'm glad you're trapped. How else can I get anybody to spend any time with me?

Buffy

Dawn, if you want us to spend time with you--

Dawn

I don't. Get out. Get out! Get out! Get out!

I, Anya, promise to cherish you. Yeah, no, not cherish. Um, I promise to have sex with you whenever I want, and uh, uh, pledge to be your friend, your wife, and your confidante, and your sex poodle-

Tara

Uh, "sex poodle"?

You're lesbians, so the hating of men will come in handy. Let's talk about Xander.

Tara

Well, it's-it's really not so much about hating the men.

Willow

We're more centered around the girl-on-girl action.

And men really like to watch that kind of stuff, don't they? Men like Xander!

[frustrated that Willow and Tara won't wish ill on Xander] What kind of lesbians are you? If you love men so much, go love men!

Tara

Things fall apart, they fall apart so hard.

Willow

Tara?

Tara

You can't ever... put 'em back the way they were...

Willow

Are you okay?

Tara

I'm sorry, it's just... [sigh] you know it takes time. You can't just... have coffee and expect--

Willow

I know.

Tara

There's just so much to work through. Trust has to be built again, on both sides... You have to learn if... if we're even the same people we were, if you can fit in each other's lives. It's a long... important process, and... can we just skip it? Can... can you just be kissing me now?

Willow

Mmm, I forgot how good this could feel. Us. Together. Without the magic.

Tara

There was plenty of magic.

You think you could just do that to me? You think I'd let you get away with that? [laughs some seconds] Think again. [Points a gun at Buffy and shoot five times, three of them while he runs away]

Tara

[Has been shot in her chest from behind, looking confused at Willow] Your shirt...