Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV Series)

Becoming: Part 1 (1998)

Max Perlich: Whistler

Quotes 

• Whistler : [narrating]  Bottom line is, even if you see 'em comin', you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does.

  [long pause] 

  Whistler : So, what are we? Helpless? Puppets? No. The big moments are gonna come, you can't help that. It's what you do afterwards that counts. That's when you find out who you are.

• [first lines] 

  Whistler : [narrating]  Here's the thing. There's moments in your life that make you, that set the course of who you're gonna be. Sometimes they're little, subtle moments. Sometimes, they're not. I'll show you what I mean.

• Whistler : [to Angel]  I mean that you can become an even more useless rodent than you already are or you can become someone. A person. Someone to be counted.

• Angel : You're not a vampire.

  Whistler : A demon. Technically. I mean, I'm not a bad guy. Not all demons are dedicated to the destruction of all life.

• Whistler : [to Angel]  She's gonna have it tough, that Slayer. She's just a kid. A world full of big, bad things.