Miles O’Brien: I wouldn’t take it personally, Worf.
Julian Bashir: I rather like the way you smell.
Miles O’Brien: Yeah… sort of… earthy, peaty aroma.
Julian Bashir: With a touch of… lilac…
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 5: Episode 6 – “Trials and Tribble-ations”
“Very well, then,” said Dumbledore, pushing open the broom shed door and stepping out into the yard. “I see a light in the kitchen. Let us not deprive Molly any longer of the chance to deplore how thin you are.”
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – J. K. Rowling
Giles: It’s getting worse!
Buffy: What’s getting worse?
Giles: The influx of the undead, the… supernatural occurrences, it’s been building for years. There’s a reason why you’re here and a reason why it’s now!
Buffy: Because now is the time my mom moved here.
Giles: Something’s coming, something, something… something is, is gonna happen here. Soon!
Buffy: Gee, can you vague that up for me?
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 1: Episode 1 – “Welcome to the Hellmouth”
“Aregg?” Sunny asked incredulously. “Incredulously” is a word which here means “not being able to believe it,” and “Aregg” is a word which here means “What? I can’t believe it.”
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Austere Academy – Lemony Snicket
[Bashir has killed Keiko’s plants.]
Julian Bashir: You don’t need me there. I’ve seen you handle your wife thousands of times. Just say you’re sorry and that you take full responsibility; you’ll be fine! Besides, I, er, have to be in surgery – operating.
Miles O’Brien: On who?
Julian Bashir: I’ll find someone.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 5: Episode 5 – “The Assignment”
“Your mother was Muggle-born, of course. Couldn’t believe it when I found out. Thought she must have been pure-blood, she was so good.”
“One of my best friends is Muggle-born,” said Harry, “and she’s the best in our year.”
“Funny how that sometimes happens, isn’t it?” said Slughorn.
“Not really,” said Harry coldly.
Slughorn looked down at him in surprise. “You mustn’t think I’m prejudiced!” he said.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – J. K. Rowling
Buffy: Okay, what’s the sitch?
Giles: Sorry?
Buffy: You heard about the dead guy, right? The dead guy in the locker?
Giles: Yes.
Buffy: ‘Cause, it’s the weirdest thing. He’s got two little, little holes in his neck, and all his blood’s been drained. Isn’t that bizarre? Aren’t you just going, ‘ooh’?
Giles: I was afraid of this.
Buffy: Well, *I* wasn’t! It’s my first day! I was afraid that I was gonna be behind in all my classes, that I wouldn’t make any friends, that I would have last month’s hair. I didn’t think there’d be vampires on campus. And I don’t care.
Giles: Then why are you here?
Buffy: To tell you that… I don’t care, which… I don’t, and… have now told you, so… bye.
Giles: Is he, w-will he… rise again?
Buffy: Who?
Giles: The boy.
Buffy: No. He’s just dead.
Giles: Can you be sure?
Buffy: To make you a vampire they have to suck your blood. And then you have to suck their blood. It’s like a whole big sucking thing. Mostly they’re just gonna kill you. Why am I still talking to you?
Buffy turns and goes down the stairs. Giles moves over to the railing.
Giles: You really have no idea what’s going on, do you? You think it’s coincidence, your being here? That boy was just the beginning.
Buffy: Oh, why can’t you people just leave me alone?
Giles: Because you are the Slayer. Into each generation a Slayer is born, one girl in all the world, a Chosen One, one born with the strength and skill to hunt–
Buffy: With the strength and skill to hunt the vampires, to stop the spread of their evil blah, blah, blah… I’ve heard it, okay?
Giles: I really don’t understand this attitude. You, you’ve accepted your duty, you, you’ve slain vampires before…
Buffy: Yeah, and I’ve both been there and done that, and I’m moving on.
Giles: What do you know about this town?
Buffy: It’s two hours on the freeway from Neiman Marcus?
Giles: Dig a bit in the history of this place. You’ll find a, a steady stream of fairly odd occurrences. Now, I believe this whole area is a center of mystical energy, (comes back with four books) that things gravitate towards it that, that, that you might not find elsewhere.
Buffy: Like vampires.
Giles: Like zombies, werewolves, incubi, succubi, everything you’ve ever dreaded was under your bed, but told yourself couldn’t be by the light of day. They’re all real!
Buffy: What? You, like, sent away for the Time-Life series?
Giles: Ah, w-w-w-yes.
Buffy: Did you get the free phone?
Giles: Um, the calendar.
Buffy: Cool! But, okay, first of all, I’m a Vampire Slayer. And secondly, I’m retired. Hey, I know! Why don’t you kill ’em?
Giles: I-I’m a Watcher, I-I haven’t the skill…
Buffy: Oh, come on, stake through the heart, a little sunlight… It’s like falling off a log.
Giles: A, a Slayer slays, a Watcher–
Buffy: Watches?
Giles: Yes. No! He, he trains her, he, he, he prepares her–
Buffy: Prepares me for what? For getting kicked out of school? For losing all of my friends? For having to spend all of my time fighting for my life and never getting to tell anyone because I might endanger them? Go ahead! Prepare me.
[Buffy leaves.]
Giles: Damn!
[Giles leaves.]
Xander: What?
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 1: Episode 1 – “Welcome to the Hellmouth”
Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course. Piracy, for example, is a tradition that has been carried on for hundreds of years, but that doesn’t mean we should all attack ships and steal their gold.
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Austere Academy – Lemony Snicket
Jadzia Dax: You’re being ridiculous. Why does pregnancy always make men hysterical?
Miles O’Brien: Excuse me, this is not the first baby I’ve had.
Kira Nerys: Excuse me. Keiko had Molly.
Jadzia Dax: It’s not up to you to tell Kira what she can and cannot do.
Worf: She is carrying his child, he should have some say.
Quark: As the lessee, he does have certain rights. Back home, pregnancy is considered a rental.
Dax and Kira: Rental?
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 5: Episode 4 – “Nor Battle to the Strong”
“And now, Harry, let us step out into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.”
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – J. K. Rowling
The Love Pirate 