Quotes from Family
Willow: Were there dolphins?
Tara: Yes, many dolphins at the pound.
Willow: Was there a camel?
Tara: There was a front of a camel. A half-camel.
Giles: Your father's?
Buffy: Yeah, he's, um, in Spain, with his secretary, living the cliché.
Buffy: When he bailed on us, I remember Dawn cried for a week, except she didn't. She wasn't there, but I can't still feel what it was like.
Buffy: Giles, I noticed you're doing the smallest amount of helping that can actually be called helping.
Giles: Well, I saw myself in more of a patriarchal sort of role. You know, lots of pointing and scowling.
Buffy: Nothing like getting your ass kicked to make your ass hurt.
Xander: You are gonna be there?
Buffy: Yeah, barring monsters.
Buffy: So, what'd you get her?
Xander: Huh?
Buffy: Tara. You said you got her a present already.
Xander: Yeah, that was a tangled web of lies, sweetie.
Xander: With Willow, it's like she's got this whole new thing in her life, but she's still willow so I can always figure her out, but TAra I just know she likes Willow, and she already has one of those.
Giles: You're in a magic shop and you can't think what Tara would like. I believe you're both profoundly stupid.
Xander: Well, we don't really know what kind of things witches like. What are we gonna get her some kind of cheesy crystal ball?
Giles: You'd bloody well better not, I've got mine already wrapped.
Buffy: You're a God. You're like the God of boyfriends.
Riley: Nah, I just like when you owe me favors.
Buffy: Well, this earns you a big favor. There could be outfits.
Riley: Oh, be still my heart.
Glory: You have the cutest little separating sores. Has anyone ever told you that?
Sandy: We could go somewhere else, someplace more private.
Riley: Oh, Sandy, Sandy, it's not good. My heart belongs to another. Besides, I don't go out with vampires. Never interested in my intellect.
Mr. Maclay: You people have no right to interfere with Tara's affairs. We are her blood kin! Who the hell are you?
Buffy: We're family.
Tara: I'm not a demon.
Willow: You're not a demon.
Tara: He hurt my nose.
Willow: Oh.
Spike: Yeah, you're welcome.
Beth: Are you happy now?
Willow: I still can't believe you didn't tell me about your family and all that.
Tara: I was just afraid if you saw the kind of people I came from you wouldn't want to be anywhere near me.
Willow: See, that's where you're a dummy. I think about what you grew up with and... then I look at what you are.... It makes me proud. It makes me love you more.
Tara: Every time I... even at my worst, you always make me feel special. How do you do that?
Willow: Magic.
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