Charisma Carpenter on Cordy:

"I think she's a little fish in a big pond. It's Cordelia having to tap into resources she's not used to. She's gonna need to depend more on her survival skills, which she learned very well living on the hellmouth in Sunnydale. I think she's gonna have to find out the sense of her character within. There'll be some growth there, and that is good. Cordelia has depth, although she usually follows it with something snotty."
 

Cordy Quotes:

Cordy: I naturally assumed you'd be lost without me, but this?
Angel: I am lost without you.
Cordy: You just forgot who you are.
Angel: Remind me.
Cordy: Uh, no. That's for you to figure out, bubba. I can tell you who you were. A guy who always fought his hardest for what was right, even when he couldn't remember why. Even when he was miserable, which was, let's face it, a not small portion of the time. He did right. And that gave him something. A light, a glimmer. And that's the guy I fell in— That, um... the guy I knew. I see him around here, then maybe I'll start believing.
   ~From "You're Welcome"

Cordy: What does that mean, really? Being good? Doing the right thing? By who's judgment? Good, evil -- they're just words, Connor. Concepts of morality they forced around your neck to yank you wherever they please.
   ~From "Inside Out"

Cordy: Think about it. You sinking Angel to the bottom of the ocean. Getting kicked out of the house. Me not knowing who I was and coming to you for help. All of those moments and a million others led to this miracle.
Connor: But sending me down to the basement. I had the stake. What was the reason for that?
Cordy: I thought our baby was in danger, and all my instincts told me that killing Angelus was the only way to protect it.
Connor: But you were wrong.
Cordy: What's important is that when I needed help, you were there for me. Now I know I can trust you. Completely. No matter what. See? Everything happens for a reason.
   ~From "Players"

Cordy: Hear me, Angelus. Heed my warning. Awaken at once. Return from the darkness. Or just lay there and let that red-headed meddler put your soul back. Whichever!
   ~From "Orpheus"

Cordy: We're having a baby. Touch it.
Connor: This... it's impossible. I... How could...?
Cordy: All I know is there's a life growing inside of me, and it's ours. We're connected now.
   ~From "Salvage"

Lilah: He's gonna kill us.
Cordy: I know. Why do you think I let him out, you stupid bitch?
   ~From "Calvary"

Cordy: What you don’t get, Angelus, is that you’re nobody. Just a disease. And Angel can’t wait to be rid of you.
   ~From "Soulless"

Cordy: Drop the Hallmark crap.
   ~From "Awakening"

Cordy: Angel, I’m sorry I hurt you. It was the last thing in the world I wanted to do but you have to get past it. And you have to get past it now because there are bigger things at stake. I know it’s not fair but it’s the way it is. People need you. Your son needs you.
   ~From "Long Day's Journey"

Cordy: You're very special Connor. Last night will always be special - it's something we both needed. But it happened because of unusual circumstances. You understand what' I'm saying?
   ~From "Habeas Corpses"

Cordy: I wish we could ... more than anything ... but I can't. When I got my memory back, everything came rushing in. Sunnydale, moving to Los Angeles, meeting you again. I wanted to tell you, but it was just too much.
Angel: Tell me what?
Cordy: What I remembered when I was a higher being. I remember seeing you ... your past ... when you were Angelus.
Angel: I never tried to hide who I was or what I've done. You already knew.
Cordy: Knowing's different than living it. When I was up there, I could look back and see everything you ever did as Angelus ... more than see, I felt it. Not just their fear and pain. I felt you and how much you enjoyed making them suffer. I love you, Angel, but I can't be with you. It's just too soon. Maybe if we just give it a little time...
   ~From "Rain of Fire"

Cordy: Hey! Hey! You two wanna pause the homo-erotic buddy cop session long enough to explain this? Wooden stakes, a guy with horns and neither of you seems that surprised when things just keep getting weirder.
   ~From "Spin the Bottle"

Cordy: Connor, I don't know who I am, much less where I belong, or who with. And there's a picture over there when you were a baby—it's only eight months old. There's a lot I need to figure out. I'm sorry.
   ~From "Supersymmetry"

Cordy: That's... everything? It all makes perfect sense now. I was a cheerleader, a princess and a warrior. And I have visions and super powers and I'm the target of an evil law firm because I've spent the last three months living on a higher plane, fighting for the forces of good, who wage a battle against demons and evilies and squishy bug babies, 'cause all that stuff's real and that's the world I live in. And I think I know why I don't remember any of this 'cause, hey— who'd want to!
   ~From "Slouching Towards Bethlehem"

Cordy: Oh, this is just great! What's the point of being an all powerful what's-a-ma-whosit if I'm not allowed to intervene? My…my friends are gonna die! I mean…what am I supposed to...Angel. God. Look what they've done to you. If I could just get you in that room, maybe...Oh! Think, bubble head!
   ~From "The House Always Wins"

Cordy: What are you? Deficient? Get me out of here!
   ~From "Ground State"

Cordy: God, I am so bored.
   ~From "Deep Down"

Cordy: You’re Skip. You tend to remember your demon guides. What is going on?
Skip: I think you know.
Cordy: I’m dying?
Skip: No, no, you’re not dying.
Cordy: Not dying.
Skip: No.
Cordy: Say that part first!
Skip: Sorry. It’s not the end. It’s the beginning. You’re a great warrior, Cordelia. The battle that we’re all a part of is fought on many planes and dimensions. You’ve outgrown this one. You’ve become a higher being.
   ~From "Tomorrow"

Cordy: Well, I'm part demon. Yeah. By choice. I did it so I could help people. And so that the back of my head wouldn't explode. I know it's gonna take a little getting used to, but --
   ~From "Benediction"

Gunn: Couple of weeks ago he was wearing diapers. Now he's a teenager?
Cordy: Tell me we don't live in a soap opera.
    ~From "A New World"

Cordy: Tried soaking it out, tried scrubbing it out... No question, we got ring around the lobby. I say we toss in the towel and buy a big ass throw rug. Who's with me?
    ~From "The Price"

Cordy: If there’s one thing I learned living on a hellmouth, every day is precious. You never know when it may be your last.
Gunn: I never figured I’d be around this long. Or have this much.
Cordy: Some people never know one day of joy. You’re lucky.
    ~From "Double or Nothing"

Wesley: Why can't you have sex?
Cordy: I could lose my visionity.
Wesley: If you want to play it that way.
Cordy: Vision-ity. The visions.
    ~From "Couplet"

Cordy: I was the ditziest bitch in Sunnydale, coulda had any man I wanted; now I'm all superhero-y and the best action I can get is an invisible ghost who's good with a loofah.
    ~From "Waiting in the Wings"

Angel: Guys, can I say something? Money's important... but it isn't everything. I got... I got carried away. I just never had a life that was totally dependent on me before. But that's no excuse.Where was I?
Cordy: Money's not the most important...
Angel: No, it's not. What's important is family... and the mission.
Cordy: They tried to cut Fred's head off. We earned every penny.
    ~From "Provider"

Skip: You may never be able to lead a human life again.
Cordy: So demonize me already.
Skip: It was an honor being your guide, Cordelia Chase.
    ~From "Birthday"

Cordy: You don't have a woman's touch. Whatever your taste in clothing may indicate.
    ~From "Dad"

Cordy: Please! Women have been giving birth without ancient prophecies for years!
    ~From "Lullaby"

Cordy: You want me to protect the vampire bitch who bit me and her evil love child?
    ~From "Quickening"

Cordy: And here we have three more of Angel's chippies. You girls are on the pill I hope.
    ~From "Offspring"

Cordy: It's not the pain. It's the helplessness. The certainty that there is nothing you can do to stop it, that your life can be thrown away in an instant by someone else. He doesn't care. He'll beat you down until you stay down because he doesn't even think of you as alive. - No woman should ever have to go through that, and no woman strong enough to wear the mantel of 'vicious bitch' would ever put up with it. - Where is Billy going?
   ~From "Billy"

Cordy: I mean, sure, there's the occasional demon who tries to kill us with pillows, but sadly, those cases are few and far between.
   ~From "Fredless"

Cordy: Let me tell you, if Julia Roberts ever makes a realistic movie about being an escort, it should be called "Pretty Skanky Woman."
   ~From "Carpe Noctem"

Angel: Hey. - Why is my name at the top of this list?
Cordy: Ah - 'a'?
Angel: Merl and I where not enemies.
Cordy: Oh, okay, my mistake.
Angel: I'm the one that found the body, remember?
Cordy: Oh. And that's not suspicious. The one time you pay Merl a social visit and he ends up - dead?
   ~From "That Old Gang of Mine"

Wesley: Think of them as gifts.
Cordy: Yes, having-my-head torn-open-and-hot-lava-poured-into-my-skull gifts.
   ~From "That Vision Thing"

Cordy: Yeah, two hundred plus years and the girl was still wearing his locket. You see me wearing Curt Eisenthorpe's football ring or Xander's Meet Medallion?
   ~From "Heartthrob"

Cordy: Well, this is a little embarrassing.  Please, come in.  Come in. Wesley, you've heard Angel talk about Gunn.  He's a great guy with a really fly street tag.
Wesley: What's he fly?
Cordy: It's how they know you on the street, dorko.  Gun.  It really lets them know you mean business.
Gunn: It's my name.  Charles Gunn. Two n's.
Cordy: Oh, lord, will no one shut me up?
   ~From "Judgement"

Cordy: You've been looking for two days.  You need to relax and charge the brain cells.  Here.  Eat.  You too. Don't be embarrassed.  We're family.  What?
Wesley: It's just I... I'm not used to...
Angel: He is not used to the new you.
Cordy: I know what's out there now.  We have a lot of evil to fight, a lot of people to help.  I just hope skin and bones here can figure out what those lawyers raised sometime before the prophecy kicks in and you croak.  That was the old me, wasn't it?
Angel:  I like them both.
   ~From "To Shanshu in L.A."

Cordy: Hey, guess what they've been doing all day?
Wesley: Uh... saving the world?
Cordy: Well, yeah.  But they've been breaking encrypted computer files, too!
Angel: What are the odds, huh?
Cordy: I know.  What?  Oh, no one, just Wesley.
Angel: Cordelia, can she get us in?
Cordy: Uh huh.  Uh huh.  Uh huh.  Willow says hey.
Angel and Wesley: Hey.
   ~From "Blind Date"

Cordy: Reality is a choice, Wesley. You see what you want to see, and I'll see what I want to see.
Wesley: A man exiting an alley pushing a shopping cart.
Cordy: No, I see a very tan lifeguard type with large...
   ~From "War Zone"

Cordy: I need you to sign these.
Angel: You understand why we have to help Faith, don't you?
Cordy: Totally. And here.
Angel: We can't just arbitrarily decide whose soul is worth saving and whose isn't.
Cordy: Oh, I know. And this one. Thanks!
Angel: Those were all made out to you.
Cordy: Yeah!
Angel: Paid vacation.
Cordy: Like I'm gonna stick around here while a psycho case is roaming loose downstairs with 3 tons of medieval weaponry? Not! Oh, and I'm thinking -- sugar high? Maybe not a good idea.
   ~From "Sanctuary"

Wesley: Well, I have faith in Angel. If anyone can convince him to testify...
Cordy: Wesley, you don't change a guy like that. In fact - generally speaking - you don't change a guy. What you see is what you get. Scratch the surface and what do you find? More surface.
    ~From "Five by Five"

Cordy: Oh, great. He spent the night with the fantasy of millions. All alone, 'protecting' her.
Wesley: You’re worried about the curse.  I wouldn’t be.
Cordy: Hey, you weren’t around the last time Angel went mental. I, on the other hand, was on the first wave of the clean-up crew. - He knows perfect happiness, he goes evil. So don’t tell me not to worry.
    ~From "Eternity"

Cordy: Demons, Demons, Demons. Wow. They put a lot of thought into that title.
Wesley: It's a demon database. What would you call it?
Cordy: I don't know. How 'bout . . . Demon Database?
Wesley: Ah. A name rife with single entendre.
    ~From "The Ring"

Angel: So, you're back.
Cordy: Very good, Mister I-can't-tail-the-suspect-during-the-day-because-I'll-burst-into-flames Private Eye.
    ~From "The Prodigal"

Wesley: That blade is very old, who knows what kind of corrosive effect your cooking may have on it.
Cordy: Corrosive effect?
Angel: Cordelia, just put down the very sharp knife.
Wesley: Well, they don't smell right.
Cordy: I think Mr. Too-Much-Cologne is the pot calling the kettle stinky.
    ~From "I've Got You Under My Skin"

Angel: Really, uh, fun party last night.
Cordy: I'm so glad you came. You know how parties are. You're always worried that nobody's going to be around to suck the energy out of the room like a giant black hole of boring despair. But there you were, in the clinch!
    ~From "She"

Cordy: I'm a lot stronger than those demon surrogates thought.
Angel: I'm startin' to learn that.
Cordy: I learned something, too. I learned, um, men are evil? Oh, wait. I knew that. I learned that LA is full of self-serving phonies. Nope. Had that one down, too. Sex is bad?
Angel: We all knew that.
Cordy: Okay, I learned that I have two people I trust absolutely with my life. And that part's new.
    ~From "Expecting"

Cordy: I don't care how many files you have on all the horrible things that he did back in the Powdered Wig Days. He is good now. And he is  my friend. And nothing you or anyone else can say will make me turn on a friend.
Angel: Cordelia, he's right.
Cordy: [to Wesley] You stake him, and I'll cut his head off.
    ~From "Somnambulist"

Cordy: Doyle? Well, he drank too much and his taste in clothing was like a Greek tragedy. And he could be really sweet sometimes. You'll like this: he was half-demon. A secret he kept from me for like *ever*. I guess that's the reason he sometimes smelled weird?
    ~From "Parting Gifts"

Cordy: What do you think I am, superficial?! I mean, you're half demon. That is so far down the list -- way under short ... and poor.
    ~From "Hero"

Cordy: This plant was thriving just this morning. Now look at it. I'm telling you, where she leads, dark forces follow.
Doyle: Buffy gave it mites?
Cordy: How else do you explain it?
Doyle: Jealousy?
Cordy: I'm jealous of her? Please!
Doyle: Just a theory.
    ~From "I Will Remember You"

Cordy: All of a sudden rich and handsome isn't enough for me. Now I expect a guy to be all brave and interesting. And it's your fault! Both of you!
    ~From "The Bachelor Party"

Angel: Cordelia, you need to...
Cordy: No! I don't care what horrible thing is about to happen -- asteroids are hurtling towards Earth, unspeakable evil is rising in the San Fernando Valley, Jar Jar is getting his own talk show, whatever -- I don't want to hear about it. Not 'til you ask us how it went.
Angel: ... call your mother back.
    ~From "Sense and Sensitivity"

Cordy: I'm not a sniveling whiny little Cry-Buffy. I'm the nastiest girl in Sunnydale history. I take crap from no one.
Maude: You are going to make yourself a noose and put it around...
Cordy: Back off! Polygrip. You think you're bad? Being all mean and haunty? Picking on poor pathetic Cordy? Well, get ready to haul your wrinkly translucent ass out of this place, because lady, the bitch is back.
    ~From "Room With a View"

Doyle: We just need the income to pay for the out-go around here.
Cordy: I know Angel's been working day and night to help people fight their personal demons. But I need a raise.
Doyle: A raise? You've been working for him for, what, 20 minutes?
Cordy: A month. And I have needs.
Doyle: Needs?
Cordy: A person... needs... certain... designer... things.
Doyle: Personally, I don't think you need much in the way of clothes.
    ~From "I Fall to Pieces"

Cordy: And she didn't even send a note? Wow, that's really.... this is one of those times when I should shy away from the topic, isn't it?
    ~From "In the Dark"

Cordy: I guess the single life is particularly tough on you.
Angel: Why?
Cordy: Well, a couple hundred years ago, the only thing you had to worry about was a hangover. Today, because of your curse thingy, you can't sleep with anyone or else you might feel a moment of true happiness and lose your soul, become evil -- again -- and kill everyone.
Angel: Thanks Cordelia. I always appreciate your perspective.
Cordy: Hey, the last thing I want is to show up at the office and find that I'm working for a homicidal monster.
    ~From "Lonely Hearts"

Cordy: Oh, god. I'm sorry! I'm getting all weepy in front of you. I probably look really scary. I finally get invited to a nice place - with no mirrors, - and lots of curtains… hey, you're a vampire!
Russell: What? No, I'm not.
Cordy: Are too!
Russell: I don't know what you're talking about.
Cordy: Hey, I'm from Sunnydale. We had our own Hellmouth! I think I know a vampire when I'm - alone with him… - in his fortress-like home. And you know, I think I'm just feeling a little light headed from hunger. I'm just wacky. And kidding! Ha, ha.
    ~From "City Of"