Season One

Angel: Let's just say I'm a friend...
Buffy: Yeah, well, maybe I don't want a friend.
Angel: I didn't say I was yours...
-Welcome to the Hellmouth

Buffy: Look, if you're gonna be popping up with this Cryptic Wise Man act on a regular basis, can you at least tell me your name?
Angel: Angel.
Buffy: Angel. It's a pretty name. 
-The Harvest

Angel: You're cold.
Buffy: You can take it.
Angel: I mean, you look cold.
-Teachers Pet

Willow: He's not around much, it's true.
Buffy: When he is around... it's like the lights dim everywhere else. You know how it's like that with some guys?
-Angel

Buffy: So, you weren't following me? I just had this feeling you were.
Angel: Why would I do that?
Buffy: You tell me. You're the Mystery Guy that appears out of nowhere. I'm not saying I'm not happy about it tonight, but... if you are hanging around I'd like to know why.
Angel: Maybe I like you.
Buffy: Maybe...
-Angel

Buffy: My diary? You read my diary? That is *not* okay! A diary is like a person's most private place! I... You don't even know what I was writing about! 'Hunk' can mean a lot of things, bad things. And, and when it says that your eyes are 'penetrating', I meant to write 'bulging'.
Angel: Buffy...
Buffy: And 'A' doesn't even stand for 'Angel' for that matter, it stands for... 'Achmed', a charming foreign exchange student, so that whole fantasy part has nothing to even do with you at all...
Angel: Your mother moved your diary when she came in to straighten up. I watched from the closet. I didn't read it, I swear.
-Angel

Angel: I did a lot of thinking today. I really can't be around you. Because when I am...

Buffy: Hey, no big. Water... over the bridge, under the bridge...
Angel: When I am all I can ever think about is how badly I want to kiss you.
Buffy: ...over the dam... Kiss me?
-Angel

Xander: Angel's a vampire. You're a slayer. I think it's obvious what you have to do.

-Angel

Buffy: "I know you're here, and I know what you are."
Angel: "Do you? I'm just an animal, right?"
Buffy: "You're not an animal. Animals I like."
-Angel

Buffy: "I invited you into my home, and you attacked my family."
Angel: "Why not? I killed mine. I killed their friends and their friends' children for
a hundred years. I offered ugly death to everyone I met, and I did it with a song
in my heart."
-Angel

Angel: The elders conjured up the perfect punishment for me: they restored my soul.
Buffy: What, they were all out of boils and blinding torment?
-Angel

Angel: I just wanted to see if you were ok. And your mother?

Buffy: We're both good. You?

Angel: If I can go for a little while without being shot r stabbed I'll be alright. Look this can't...

Buffy:... Ever be anything. I know. For one thing you're like two hundred and forty two years older than I am.

Angel: I just gatta... I gotta walk away from this.

Buffy:(nods) I know. Me too. One of us has to go here.

Angel: (Whispers) I know.

[They kiss]

Buffy: You okay?

Angel: It's just...

Buffy: Painful. I know. See you around?

[Buffy walks away, Angel watches her go. Camara pans in on close up of his chect wear the cross he gave her on their first meeting has seared his heart.

-Angel

Giles: A vampire in love with the Slayer. It's rather poetic, in a Maulin sort of way.

-Out of mind, Out of sight/Invisible Girl

Angel: You think I could stand if anything happend to you?

-Prophecy Girl

Season Two

Angel: What are you afraid of? Me? Us?
Buffy: Could you contemplate getting over yourself for a second? There's no 'us'. Look, Angel, I'm sorry if I was supposed to spend the summer mooning over you, but I didn't. I moved on. To the living.
-When She Was Bad

Angel: I just thought you'd have somebody with you. Xander or someone.
Buffy: Xander.
Angel: Or someone.
Buffy: Nope. Why? Are you jealous?
Angel: Of Xander? Please. He's just a kid.
Buffy: Is it 'cause I danced with him?
Angel: 'Danced with' is a pretty loose term. 'Mated with' might be a little closer.
Buffy: Don't you think you're being a little unfair? It was one little dance, which I only did to make you crazy, by the way. Behold my success.
Angel: I am *not* jealous.
Buffy: You're not jealous? What, vampires don't get jealous?
-Some Assembly Required

Willow: Love makes you do the wacky.
Buffy: That's the truth.
-Some Assembly Required

Buffy: I don't love Xander.
Angel: Yeah, but he's in your life. He gets to be there when I can't. Take your classes, eat your meals, hear your jokes and complaints. He gets to see you in the sunlight.
Buffy: I don't look that good in direct light.
-Some Assembly Required

Willow: You dreamed about Angel again?
Buffy: Third night in a row.
Willow: What did he do in the dream?
Buffy: Stuff.
Willow: Oh! Stuff! Was it one of those vivid dreams where you could feel his lips and smell his hair?
Buffy: It had surroundsound. I'm just thinking about him so much lately.
-Reptile Boy

Angel: This isn't some fairy tale. When I kiss you, you don't wake up from a deep sleep and live happily ever after.
Buffy: No. When you kiss me I wanna die
-Reptile Boy

Angel: Don't listen to her. Please. You look fine.
Buffy: You're sweet. A terrible liar, but sweet.
-Halloween

Angel: I don't get it, Buffy. Why'd you think I'd like you better dressed that way?
Buffy: I just wanted to be a real girl for once. The kind of fancy girl you liked when you were my age.
Angel: Oh, ho.
Buffy: What?
Angel: I hated the girls back then. Especially the noble women.
Buffy: You did.
Angel: They were just incredibly dull. Simpering morons, the lot of them. I always wished I could meet someone... exciting. Interesting.
-Halloween

Angel: There's a lot about me you don't know.
Buffy: I believe that.
-Lie to Me

Angel: Do you love me?
Buffy: What?
Angel: Do you?
Buffy: I love you. I don't know if I trust you.
Angel: Maybe you shouldn't do either.
Buffy: Maybe I'm the one who should decide!
-Lie to Me

Angel: Yeah. I'll never be a kid.
Buffy: Okay, then a regular kid and her cradle robbing, creature-of- the-night boyfriend.
-What’s My Line, Part 1

Buffy: No! Your eye! Hey! Don't be a baby. I'm not gonna hurt you.
Angel: It's not that. I...
Buffy: What?
Angel: You shouldn't have to touch me when I'm like this.
Buffy: Oh. I didn't even notice.
-What’s My Line, Part 1

Buffy: Good. 'Cause I've had it. Spike is going down. You can attack me, you can send assassins after me, that's fine. But nobody messes with my boyfriend!
-What’s My Line, Part 1

Kendra: Mm. It is too strange dat a Slayer loves a vampire.
-What’s My Line, Part 1

Angel: Kiss me.
Buffy: Finally, something I wanna do!
-Ted

Buffy: Like I'm really planning to have kids anytime soon. Uh, maybe *some*day, in the future, when I'm done having a life, but... right now kids would be just a little too much to deal with.
Angel: I wouldn't know. I don't... Well, you know, I, I can't.
Buffy: Oh. That's okay, um... I-I figured there were all sorts of things vampires couldn't do. You know, like work for the Telephone Company, or volunteer for the Red Cross, or... have little vampires.
Angel: So you don't think about the future?
Buffy: No.
Angel: Never?
Buffy: No.
Angel: You really don't care what happens a year from now? Five years from now?
Buffy: Angel, when I look into the future, a-a... all I see is you! All I want is you.
Angel: I know the feeling.
-Bad Eggs

Buffy: She killed you. Right in front of me.
Angel: It was just a dream. It wasn't real.
-Surprise

Buffy: This is nice. I like seeing you first thing in the morning.
Angel: It's bedtime for me.
Buffy: Well, then I like seeing you at bedtime. Um... Um, heh... Y-you know what I mean.
Angel: I think so. What do you mean?
Buffy: I like seeing you. The part at the end of the night where we say good-bye... It's getting harder.
Angel: Yeah. It is.
-Surprise

Angel: My people -- before I was changed -- they exchanged this as a sign of devotion. It's a claddagh ring. The hands represent friendship, the crown represents loyalty... and the heart... Well, you know... Wear it with the heart pointing towards you. It means you belong to somebody. Like this.
-Surprise

Angel: I love you. I try not to, but I can't stop.
Buffy: Me, me, too. I can't either.
Angel: Buffy, maybe we shouldn't...
Buffy: Don't. Just kiss me.
-Surprise

Buffy: Angel... there must be some part of you inside that still remember whos you are...

Angelus: Dream on, school girl, you're boyfriend is dead.

-Innocence

Angelus: You know what the worst part was huh? Pretending that I loved you If I'd know how easily you'd give it up, I wouldn't have even bothered.

-Innocence

Buffy: I can't believe it's the same person. He's the complete opposite of what he was.

Willow: Well... Sort of, except...

Buffy: Excet what?

Willow: You're still the only thing he thinks about.

-Passion

Angelus: So that's everything huh? No weapons, no friends, no hope. Take all that away and what's left?

Buffy: Me.

-Becoming II

Angel: What's hapening, Buffy?

Buffy: Shhh, it doesn't matter...

[They kiss]

Buffy: I love you.

Angel: I love you...

Buffy: Close your eyes.

-Becoming II

Season Three

Angel: If I was blind, I would see you.
-Anne

Buffy: When I killed him, Angel was cured. Your spell worked at the last minute, Will. I was about to take him out, and, um... something went through him... and he was Angel again. He-he didn't remember anything that he'd done. He just held me. Um, but i-it was... it was too late, and I, I had to. So I, I told him that I loved him... and I kissed him... and I killed him.
-Faith, Hope and Trick

Mr Platt: You know, lots of people lose themselves in love. It's no shame. They write songs about it. The hitch is, you can't stay lost. Sooner or later, you have to get back to yourself.

Buffy: And if you can't?

Mr Platt: If you can't, love becomes your master. And your just it's dog.

Angel: Buffy?

-Beauty and the beasts

Buffy: What I want from you I can never have.

-Lovers walk

Angel: There must be a way we can still see each other.

Buffy: There is. Tell me you don't love me.

Angel is silent.

-Lovers walk

Angel: It told me to kill you. You were in the dream. You know. It told me to lose my soul in you and become a monster again.
Buffy: I know what it told you. What does it matter?
Angel: Because I wanted to! Because I want you so badly! I want to take comfort in you, and I know it'll cost me my soul, and a part of me doesn't care. Look, I'm weak. I've never been anything else. It's not the demon in me that needs killing, Buffy. It's the man.
-Amends

Angel: Am I a thing worth saving, huh? Am I a righteous man? The world wants me gone!
Buffy: What about me? I love you so much... And I tried to make you go away... I killed you and it didn't help. And I hate it! I hate that it's *so* hard... and that you can hurt me *so* much. I know everything that you did, because you did it to me. Oh, God! I wish that I wished you dead. I don't. I can't.
-Amends

Angel: Buffy, you could never be helpless or boring, not even if you tried.
-Helpless

Angel: I watched you, and I saw you called. It was a bright afternoon out in front of your school. You walked down the steps... and... and I loved you.
Buffy: Why?
Angel: 'Cause I could see your heart. You held it before you for everyone to see. And I worried that it would be bruised or torn. And more than anything in my life I wanted to keep it safe... to warm it with my own.
-Helpless

Angel: I love you.
Buffy: I love you.
Angel: Nothing can change that. Not even death.
-The Zeppo

Angel: Look, I don't need to see movies to get worked up. Just being around you does that just fine. Doesn't mean that I'm gonna lose control, that I'm going to be frustrated around you. It feels nice, just to feel.
Buffy: It doesn't drive you crazy, when we're close?
Angel: Watch this. (long kiss) See? Safe as houses.
-Enemies

Angel: You still my girl?
Buffy: Always.
-Enemies

Angel: Hey. I won't ley anything happen to you if I can help it. No matter what, I'll always be with you. Hey.. I'll love you... even if you're covered with slime.
-Earshot

Angel: And there's no comparison... in 243 years I've loved exactly one person.
-Earshot

Buffy: I don't know what the Mayor was talking about. How could he know anything about us?
Angel: Well, he's evil.
Buffy: Big time. He doesn't even know what a lasting relationship is.
Angel: No.
Buffy: Probably the only lasting relationship he's ever had is with evil.
Angel: Yeah.
Buffy: Big, stupid, evil guy. We'll be okay.
Angel: We will.
-Choices

Buffy: You know, this place really isn't girl-friendly. No mirrors, no natural light.
Angel: I think you look perfect.
Buffy: Oh yeah, I really like... Okay! Maybe we should think about getting a few mirrors. And maybe a drawer, you know, for some of my stuff. Because that's what couples do, they have drawers.
Angel: Mmmm, that's right.
-The Prom

Angel: You deserve more. You deserve something outside of demons and darkness. You should be with someone who can take you into the light. Someone who can make love to you.
-The Prom

Angel: I'm trying to do what's right here, okay? I'm trying to think with my head instead of my heart.
-The Prom

Buffy: I want my life to be with you.
Angel: I don't.
-The Prom

Buffy: I can't breathe, Will. I feel like I can't breathe.

-The Prom

[They look at each other, their burdens lifted slightly, their pain not gone but mellowing. Words unsaid.]

- (Stage directions) The Prom

Buffy: I never thought you'd come.
Angel: It's a big night. I didn't want to miss it. It's just tonight. It doesn't mean that I ...
Buffy: I know. I mean, I understand.
Angel: Dance with me?
-The Prom

Wild horses
couldn't drag me away
Wild horses
couldn't drag me away

- 'Wild Horses' By The Sundays, The Prom

Buffy: I won't let you die. I can't.

Graduation Day II

[She feels him before she sees him. Turns. Angel stands some twenty yards away, looking at her. People coming and going in between. They both stop. The noise fades away. They stare at each other. Angel turns and walks away. Buffy stands and watches him. After a moment, she goes in the opposite direction.]

- (Stage directions) Graduation Day II

Season Four BtVS/ Season One AtS

Doyle: Maybe he's over her."
Cordy: "You have so much to learn little Irish man."

-IWRY

Buffy: "I don't know. - I just know that when you're around, whether I see you or not, - I feel you - inside - and it throws me."-IWRY

Angel: "I feel weird.'
Buffy: "I know. I do, too. I mean, I only came to see you so I could tell you face-to-face not to see me - face-to-face anymore, - and I know there is a fly in the logic ointment here somewhere, but.. The next thing I knew we're being attacked by this mutant ninja demon thing, and then we're on the floor on top of each other, and it's just really confusing being around you."
Angel: "No, I meant I felt weird from the demons blood. It's powerful." -IWRY

Angel: "No. I-It is confusing. And I.. When we're apart - it’s easier. It hurts - every day. But I live with it. And now you're - you're right here - and I can actually reach out.. and - it's more then confusing - it's unbearable."
Buffy: "But we have to bear, right? I mean, what else can we do? It doesn't work with us. It can't."
Angel: "No, I-I can't give you a life, or a future or anything a real girl would want."
Buffy: "No matter how much we miss each other."
Angel: "Or what we feel in the moment."
Buffy: "If we let something happen here - we'd want more. - And nothing's changed. We'd only end up having to leave each other again." -IWRY

Doyle: "So? Don't they deserve a little happiness after all they've been through?" -IWRY

Angel: "God, I love food."

Buffy: "Food is good." -IWRY

Buffy: "By the way, I'm over the whole needing to be mature thing. That time you just spent in the kitchen? That was enough time apart."
Angel: "Too much." -IWRY

Buffy: "It's a good sound. Thump-thump. Thump-thump." -IWRY

Buffy: "No, I - want to stay awake - so this day can keep happening."
Angel: "Sleep. We'll make another one like it tomorrow." -IWRY

Buffy: "Angel? This is the first time I ever really felt this way."
Angel: "What way?"
Buffy: "Just like I've always wanted to. Like a normal girl, falling asleep in the arms of her normal boyfriend. It's perfect."-IWRY

Mohra: "Together you were powerful. Alone, you are dead. -IWRY

Buffy: "Shh, you're all right. That's all that matters. Shh, you're all right. And it's over. And we're together." -IWRY

Woman: "You are wrong. This one is willing to sacrifice every drop of human happiness and love he has ever known for another. He is not a lower being." -IWRY

Angel: "I went to see the Oracles. I asked them to turn me back."
Buffy: "What? - Why?"
Angel: "Because more then ever I know how much I love you." -IWRY

Buffy: "How am I supposed to go on with my life knowing what we had? What we could have had?"
Angel: "You won't. No one will know but me."
Buffy: "Everything we did."
Angel: "It never happened." -IWRY

Buffy: "No. I'll never forget. I'll never forget. I'll never forget. I'll never forget."-IWRY

Buffy: "Yeah. - So - I'm gonna go - start forgetting." -IWRY

Faith: I wake up to find this blonde chick isn't even dating the guy she was so nut's about before. She's moved on - to the first college beefstick she meets. Not only has she forgotten 'the love of her life', she's forgotten all about the chick she nearly killed for him.

-This year's girl

Angel: She's nobody.

-Sanctuary

Joss Whedon

"I don´t think it will spell the end of David´s association with Buffy or of Buffy´s with Angel," says Buffy and Angel creator Joss Whedon."Because I don´t think those two will ever be completely broken apart."
"As long as (both) shows take seriously what happened between Buffy and Angel, and build it slowly and make it mean something different than what went on with Buffy and Angel, then I think people will accept it."

Tim Minear

While we have, to some degree, made specific choices to "liberate" Angel as a character and as a series, I'm pretty much of the same mind as you are -- Buffy is the One True One. The Meant To Be. In my bones, I feel like all roads lead back to her for Angel. But that's just me. And my name ain't Joss, for instance. Not that Joss has said otherwise, mind you.

David Boreanaz

"Their story's not over. Their parting in the season finale was actually a blessing. It will help them rediscover something about themselves to make their relationship stronger."

"But I think in the long run, I think it will be stronger for her and myself. The fact that these two characters will leave and somehow their love will never end."

"It's not like Angel is ever going to get over Buffy, but he won't be whining about her every episode. She'll just be the spectre of his one true love."

Sarah Michelle Gellar

She´ll always miss Angel. Riley is a wonderful foil for Buffy but I think it`s a thing that a lot of young girls do after they have their first love, their Romeo and Juliet style love, the love that never can be; you find someone that`s safe, someone that can protect you. But it doesn`t have that same excitement, and I think deep down Buffy will always love Angel and she will never love anyone the way in which she loves him.

"Last year, with Angel and the heartbreak, I would go home and cry. My body wouldn't work properly. I don't take demons home with me, but I do take Buffy's pain. The vampires I'm immune to, but not the emotion. When we filmed the episode where Angel breaks up with her, I cried for 25 minutes. I thought I was having a breakdown. They had to shut down the set. When they say rip your heart out, that's really what unfulfilled love does."

"It was interesting when they first said that David was going to get his own show. I was so excited for him, watching how he's grown since he started on the show as his first real job. Maybe I was getting too comfortable with David. What an exciting adventure now, for both my character and myself, and for David and his character, but I have to tell you as an actor I miss him immensely. Every time they try and bring someone new in for Buffy, all I can think is, 'but it's not Angel!'. I'm not really sure what we're going to do now. We just did an interesting episode where Buffy spent the summer moping over her boyfriend -- like everybody who loses their first love -- and then this cute sophomore in college ask her out and she's so excited and he says all the right things and does all the right things and she sleeps with him on the first date and then he dumps her. I ran into Joss' office, screaming, 'Buffy would never do this! All this history with Angel -- this is WRONG!' And Joss said to me, 'Sarah, try going to college. This is what people do and this is how they learn and these are the mistakes they make', and that is exactly what Buffy is going through. Right now she's trying to convince herself, like most young girls do, that she needs to get away from the bad guy and find a nice, solid guy, but she's terrified that without that fire and intensity and passion that she would step all over a nice guy because she'll be bored. I think Angel is her true love and I don't know if she can ever find love like that again. I just did my first cross-over episode with Angel and it was an amazing experience and one of the best episodes we've ever done..."

"In my opinion, Buffy and Angel should be together forever, but I understand for storytelling purposes, it's not to be. Angel is Buffy's true love. They have something you can never repeat. I mean, I understand it when people say nothing is ever the same after your first true love. They were soul mates. And Riley and Buffy were at different stages in their lives; they were different people. Buffy never loved Riley the same way she loved Angel."