anya is my favorite buffy character because she’s the only one who is ever honest about how fucking awful it can be to be alive and to be human. by having been non-human for so long, she’s the most human of all.
monsters aren’t scary, not really, what’s scary is this: that one day you will cease to breathe and you will be just a body and the world will continue to turn and people will continue to love and you will cease to be a part of it. and someday after that, when your bones are earth and you have ceased being loved, you will be forgotten.
(Source: sunnydales)