“...the sensation was so startlingly intense that I couldn‘t help it, I slipped into the shadow."What in the name of—" Simon jerked backward, voice shocked. "Gods and suns, Lily, where did you go?"I froze where I was, embarrassment flowing over me in a fiery tide that burned everything else away. Sweet lords of hell, what had I done? I was fairly certain that vanishing during such a moment was just not done.”

“This is where I belong, burning in these flames. For everything I have done wrong, I know I am to blame.”

“For the things I have done I know the devil saves a place for me in hell. So when I am to burn, what does one more sin matter?”

“Fiddling with damp tarragon left me so intensely irritated that when I was done I had to stick the ramekin/mise en place bowls back in the fridge and go watch both the episode where Xander is possessed by a demon and the one where Giles regresses to his outrageously sexy teen self and has sex with Buffy’s mom, just to get over it.”

“She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might,if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me.”

“Twant me, 'twas the Lord. I always told him, 'I trust to you. I don't know where to go or what to do, but I expect you to lead me,' and He always did.”