BUFFY: "Every single night the same arrangement, I go out and fight the fight. Still, you always feel this strange estrangement, nothing here is real, nothing here is right. I've been making shows of trading blows, just hoping no one knows that I've been going through the motions, walking through the part. Nothing seems to penetrate my heart. I was always brave and kind of righteous, now I find I'm wavering. Crawl out of a grave, you find this fight just doesn't mean a thing..."
DEMONS: "She ain't got that swing.."
BUFFY: "Thanks for noticing..."
DEMONS: "She does pretty well with fiends from hell, but lately, we can tell that she that she's just going through the motions, faking it somehow. She's not even half the girl she...owww!
BUFFY: "Will I stay this way forever? Sleepwalk through my life's endeavor?"
VICTIM: "How can I repay...?"
BUFFY: "Whatever...I don't want to be going through the motions, losing all my drive. I can't even see if this is really me. And I just want to fell alive!"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "Once More with Feeling"