lady-stonehearts:

“You listen to me. I’ve been alive a bit longer than you, and dead a lot longer than that. I’ve seen things you couldn’t imagine…and done things I prefer you didn’t. I don’t exactly have a reputation for being a thinker. I follow my blood…which doesn’t exactly rush in the direction of my brain. So I make a lot of mistakes, a lot of wrong bloody calls. A hundred-plus years, and there’s only one thing I’ve ever been sure of. You. Hey, look at me - I’m not asking you for anything. When I say I love you, it’s not because I want you, or because I can’t have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are…what you do, how you try. I’ve seen your kindness and your strength. I’ve seen the best and the worst of you! And I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are. You’re a hell of a woman. You’re ‘the one’, Buffy.”