Angel: “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 than 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 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.”
Angel: “And that’s the best case scenario.”
Buffy: “…Oh, boy. I was really jonesing for another heartbreaking sewer talk.”
Angel: “I’m sorry.”
Buffy: “You know, I’m actually on the brink of something back home. I’m actually heading towards a pretty good life now that —”
Angel: “I’m out of the picture. That’s why I left. I want you to have it.”
(I Will Remember You, Season 1 Angel)