From: daviderl31@yahoo.com   
      
   http://www.newsmax.com/FastFeatures/modern-fantasy-speeches-mono   
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   Greatest Modern Fantasy Speeches: 4 Memorable Monologues Since 1996   
      
   2. Buffy The Vampire Slayer to Dawn in “The Gift”   
   “Dawn, listen to me. Listen. I love you. I will always love you. But this is   
   the work that I have to do… You have to be strong. Dawn, the hardest thing   
   in this world is to live in it. Be brave. Live. For me.”   
      
   Buffy’s entreaty right before she sacrifices herself is one of the most   
   perfect truths: Living in the world is hard. It also epitomizes, according   
   to the e-book “Heroes & Villains,” the “very nature of the heroic.”   
      
      
           [My fave would be Spike's admonition to Buffy and Angel in season   
   three's 'Lover's Walk' --   
      
            "You're NOT friends. You'll never be friends. You'll be in love   
   till it kills you both. You'll fight, and you'll shag, and you'll hate each   
   other till it makes you quiver, but you'll never be friends.   
           "Love isn't brains, children, it's blood. Blood screaming inside you   
   to work its will.   
           "I may be love's bitch, but at least I'm man enough to admit it." ]   
      
           [ Numbers 1, 3 and 4 at the link]   
      
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