Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV Series)

Dead Man's Party (1998)

Danny Strong: Jonathan Levinson

Quotes 

• Joyce Summers : You now what? That's it. You and I are gonna have a talk.

  Buffy Summers : Mom, please.

  Joyce Summers : You know what? I don't care! I don't care what your friends think of me or you for that matter, because you put me through the ringer, Buffy. I mean it. And I've had schnapps. Do you have any idea what it's been like?

  Buffy Summers : Mom, this isn't the place...

  Joyce Summers : You can't imagine months of not knowing, not knowing whether you're lying dead in a ditch somewhere or, I don't know, living it up!

  Buffy Summers : But you told me! You're the one who said I should go! You said if I leave this house, don't come back! You found out who I really was and you couldn't deal! Don't you remember?

  Joyce Summers : [more angry]  Buffy, you didn't give me time! You just dump this thing on me and you expected me to get it? Well, guess what. Mom's not perfect, okay? I handled it badly! But that doesn't give you the right to punish me by running away!

  Buffy Summers : Punish you? I didn't do this to punish you.

  Xander Harris : Well, you did. You should've seen what you put her through.

  Buffy Summers : Great. Thanks. Anybody else want to weigh in here? How about you by the dip?

  Jonathan Levinson : No, thanks... I'm good.

  Xander Harris : You know, maybe you don't want to hear it, Buffy... but taking off like you did was incredibly selfish and stupid!

  Buffy Summers : Okay. Okay! I screwed up! I know this! But you have no idea! You have... you have no idea what happened to me or what I was feeling!

  Xander Harris : Did you even try talking to anybody?

  Buffy Summers : No. There was nothing anybody could do. Okay? I just had to deal with this on my own!

  Xander Harris : Yeah, and you see how well that one worked out. You can't just bury stuff, Buffy. It'll come right back up to get you.