Dawson's Creek Quotes

Mitch: The night you were born I cried like a baby.
Dawson: Did you really? I didn't know that.
Mitch: I think I cried for 24 hours straight. Holding you, so small in my arms, I never knew I could love anything so much, so fast. So utterly. Part of me was terrified. Raising a son is more a matter of faith than most people know.
Dawson: So's being one.
Mitch: You're right. I think I realized something today.
Dawson: What?
Mitch: That my job as a father, isn't to give you the whole picture, because the truth is, I can't see it myself. My job is to try and help. And every now and then, fit a piece of the puzzle.
Dawson: You have helped me dad.
Mitch: I hope so. But your future, your expectations… they belong to you. Don't let anybody stand in the way. Not even me.
Dawson: You always pushed me to be my own person. To think for myself. I just did what you taught me.

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Pacey: Dawson, not all of us are as immune to the law of sex as you are. I mean, not all of us would opt for the warm and fuzzy emotional connections over those of, let's say a more physical nature, you know what I mean? Most of us are just big dumb guys happy to sell our souls for the slimmest chance, of gettin' some.

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Pacey: Ahoy there, anyone ashore?
Joey: What are you doing here?
Pacey: It's the damnedest thing, I just got into to Dawson's row boat and it magically drifted toward your dock.
Joey: Yeah, well magically drift any closer and I'll kill you.
Pacey: You know, I almost believed that. [Jumps up to join her on the dock]
Joey: [After a pause between the two as they looked at each other] He told you didn't he? Didn't he?
Pacey: Well, what do you think?
Joey: I think I hate you both.
Pacey: Well, then you're really going to hate me when you hear what I have to say....he did the right thing. The two of you need to be apart right now.
Joey: How would you know what I need?
Pacey: Yeah...you know you're probably right. How could I possibly know what it's like to let somebody go, right? How hard it is to let someone go. The pain of knowing that even though the two of you are right for each other, that doesn't necessarily mean that you're right for each other right now. What would I know about that, right? How could I possibly know that sometimes it just makes you want to scream, hit somebody, or sit out at the end of a dock and cry...
Joey: Of all the people to see me like this, it had to be you.
Pacey: Well, you know it's a new year and who knows...[leans in close to her] you and I might even become friends
Joey: Pacey...[Looks at him] I'm upset enough as it is. [Pacey laughs]
Pacey: [Puts arm around her] Come here, Potter .
[Pacey kisses Joey's forehead]

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Eve: I'm just a girl, standing in a janitor's closet, asking you to kiss her.

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Joey: You think every Joey has a Dawson and every Dawson has a Joey?
Dawson: I hope so...for their sake.

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[Dawson is standing in the aisle looking at the wide variety of condoms]
Male Customer: Yeah...these days [puts his arm over Dawson's shoulders] you got your ribbed, your non-ribbed, your lubricated, your non-lubricated, your thin, your ultrathin, sheep skin, extra sensitive, nonoxynol-9 and... glow-in-the-dark.
Male Customer 2: Glow in the darks don't work.
Male Customer 1: No kidding?
Male Customer 2: No, you gotta hold 'em up to the light for 20 minutes, who's got time for that?
[woman customer walks up]
Woman Customer: And if you really want to blow her mind try the Brown Betty.
[they all grab a pack and walk away]
Dawson: This is not happening.

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Joey: Pacey, you probably don't want to hear this right now, and I'm sure you don't want to hear it from me, but you have to talk to her.
Pacey: No, not right now. I couldn't even look at her right now.
Joey: You have to, Pacey. You have to hear her out.
Pacey: Why? What's the difference, Joey, huh? No matter what she says the ending's still the same. She slept with somebody else.
Joey: You think that just because the two of you were together what she did hurts more? It doesn't. There's no difference, Pacey, I mean... Look, she's sixteen years old and so are you. We talk like we know what's going on, but we don't. We don't have any idea. Look, we're really young and we're gonna screw up a lot! You know, we're going to keep changing our minds and ... and sometimes even our hearts. And through all of that, the only real thing we can offer each other is forgiveness. And I couldn't do that. Or at least I did it too late. Don't let yourself get so angry that you stop loving because one day you wake up from that anger and the person you love will be gone

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Jen: Worse. They're even starting to dress like me. It's like they're genetically predisposed to having absolutely no identity.
Jack: Yeah, that's the blonde gene.
Jen: Not funny.

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Andie: Don't worry, Pacey. This isn't going to be one of those horribly awkward, hope-boy-didn't-mean-all those-hurtful-things-he-said-during-the-break-up-moment.
Pacey: Well that's a relief 'cuz I sure don't wanna play the guy-feels-guilty-about-breakup-even-though-it-was-girl-who-had-an-affair-with-the-mental-patient-scene.

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Dawson: Someone gave it to me.
Joey: A certain someone with blond locks and a name that rimes with Steve?
Pacey: [Laughs] She's good, I like that girl, she's good. [Nudges Dawson with his elbow]
Joey: Once again, Dawson Leery proves the groin is mightier than the brain.

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Joey: I bet when she offered you that test you didn't fire one ethical comment her way, did you?... It's just your friends who have to sit here and... and suffer through the Dawson Leery morality play, bleached blond ho-bags willing to put out need not audition.

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Dawson: No, I wanted to consult the people I thought I trusted to determine what the best thing was to do. I never thought anyone would be so weak or so self motivated to actually swipe it.
Pacey: Weak and self motivated, huh? Now which one of those two colorful adjectives would i be?
Dawson: You are who you are, Pacey.
Pacey: Yes I am, Dawson. And so are you. [Pokes him in the chest] You, Dawson Leery are a self-righteous, son of a bitch who cares more about his rose colored defunct 1950's belief system then the people who fail to live up to it, huh?!
Dawson: Interesting choice of words coming from a smug, cold-hearted son of a bitch who just dumped his girlfriend after she begged and pleaded for an ounce of sympathy.
Pacey: At least I didn't send her father to prison.
Dawson: No, you just made her go crazy. [Pacey punches him in the eye. Dawson turns around punches Pacey on the lip, sending Pacey to the ground]
Pacey: Ah...[Joey comes out from the building to see what's going on]
Joey: What happened? Dawson, what are you doing? [She goes to Pacey, leaning down and holding his arm]
Pacey: It's my fault, I'm sorry.
Joey: Dawson, this has got to stop! [to Pacey] Are you okay?

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Joey: Hey, brought you a Pepsi.
Pacey: No thanks, I'm not thirsty.
Joey: It's for your lip, moron. I'm out of ice.
Pacey: I can't believe he thought I'd take that-
Joey: So what, Pacey
Pacey: I thought if I'd earned anyone's respect, it was his. I mean, if the guy who knows you better than anybody on earth thinks you're a loser, then maybe...
Joey: Then maybe you are one? Come on, I mean I thought you were a loser for years but you never believed me. [They smile at each other]
Pacey: It's just...you know when does a person start believing the general consensus about themselves?
Joey: When it's right. [They pause and look at each other]
Pacey: Do me a favor?
Joey: Hmm?
Pacey: Can you tell your friend Dawson that I'm innocent? I mean, he'll believe you.
Joey: No, my friend? Look he's your friend too. And you know as well as I do that he's somewhere right now sulking over the gravity of his wrongful accusation.
Pacey: Well good, let him stew in his own pride for a while.
Joey: Now we're all guilty of that.
Pacey: Hey, I'd never accuse him of cheating.
Joey: Yeah, well I'm pretty sure he'd never take the first swing at you.
Pacey: He started that whole thing!
Joey: I'm not getting into this.
Pacey: Okay, so tell me.
Joey: What?
Pacey: What do you think happened to that test?
Joey: I don't know. And to be honest, I don't want to know. I mean there are certain things in life you're just...better off not knowing. And things that you wish you never knew, never asked and...never saw.
Pacey: Okay, so tell me honestly...does it look that bad?
Joey: On your face, any reconstructive surgery whatsoever, i

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Joey: For a minute, I thought you'd been possessed by these school spirit creatures from the planet Overzealous.
Pacey: Not quite yet, but I am thinking about making a run for it before the pods hatch. What do you say Scully?

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Jen: What are you auctioning off?
Cheerleader #2: Well, the winner gets to ride in on the Minuteman Mule, at the end of the game.
Cheerleader #1: And receive a kiss from the head cheerleader.
Jen: Oh, no they don't!
Cheerleader #1: Now Jenny...
Jen: Jen! OK, it's Jen. You know this whole thing just started as a bad joke, and excuse to get out of biology but you see what it's turned into? I have pranced around this entire school at pep rallies without even knowing what the hell pep is. I have listened to prate and paddle about car washes, dance-athons and dog-sitting until I think I'm going to puke up my homemade spirit cookie.
Cheerleader #1: Jenny!
Jen: And despite the itch I am getting on my ass from this polyester molest-me skirt, I've done it all with a smile of my face. But you know what ladies? The smile has gone. I'm sorry, but there is no way that I'm going to be sold off like some harem girl to the highest bidder. Everyone has a limit, and I've reached mine. I quit!

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Joey: Why didn't we just drive?
Pacey: Because, Potter, on occasion my pop actually likes to use his car.
Joey: So I risk my future to cut class so I could stand in line at the post office and then traipse five miles through the wilderness carrying some stupid package?
Pacey: Oh, God. You know, did you ever stop to think about how much hormonally charged energy you waste on these quick quips and the biting banter? Your life would be considerably more productive if you would just take some more, ah… oh, what is that? More, ah… action! If you took more action.
Joey: Oh, what, like voluntary manslaughter?
Pacey: Well how 'bout sticking out your thumb, huh?
Joey: Oh yeah? And what else? Maybe hike up my skirt, pout my lips, strike some sexy pose for some horndog trucker? Stick out your own thumb you sexist toad.
Pacey: I am not a sexist, I am a pragmatist. OK? You ever seen The Sure Thing? That movie elegantly portrays one of life's simple truths-that a female standing on the side of a road, even one with a perpetual scowl like yourself, has a better chance of flagging down a car than a guy.
Joey: Since I'm the only one here with an opposable thumb, I guess it's up to me to use it.
Pacey: [a car approaches] And here's your chance. [He jumps over some bushes]
[Joey sticks her thumb out as a car approaches. It slows down and comes to a stop, to Joey's surprise]
Joey: [leaning into the window] Hi...
Principal Green: Today is your lucky day Miss Potter, need a ride back to school?

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Pacey: [showing her an old boat] Isn't she beautiful?
Joey: Yeah, in a Titanic, post-iceberg sort of way. Where did you get this?
Pacey: A friend of my brother's, he works down at the marina. He rescued her after the last hurricane. The guy who owned it didn't want her any more, so I convinced him to sell it to me for like, two hundred bucks. When I finish with this boat it is going to be sheer perfection. Look at that.
Joey: Pacey, do you know how much money and time it will take to even get this boat to float?
Pacey: Yeah. Not a minute more or less than as long as it takes me. You watch, Potter, in a couple of months I'll be sailing this baby around the world.
Joey: I hate to break it to you Captain Stubing, but you can't sail around the world in a twenty foot boat.
Pacey: Sure I can.
Joey: Where are you going to put the supplies?
Pacey: Hey, the USS Minnow was no bigger than this, and they found room for all of Mr. Howell's money, all the professor's tools, all of Ginger's clothes...(Joey starts to go up the ladder) And where do you think you're going?
Joey: (She smiles and steps down to the ground, then holds up her hand) Permission to come aboard?
Pacey: (Smiles and holds out his hand) Permission granted. (He takes her hand and helps her up the ladder to the boat)

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Jack: You can't tell me there's someone else you'd rather be star gazing with?
Jen: OK, you got me. Matt Damon.
Jack: Yeah right.
Jen: What, you don't approve? OK, I'll have to go with Ben Affleck then. Well, he has that scruffy, indie-cred appeal. Well?
Jack: No comment. Besides, I was talking more about the realm of say, possible… Henry, for instance?
Jen: The freshman?
Jack: Yeah, the guy who paid 500 bucks just to kiss you? You gotta admit, that's kind of sweet.
Jen: Jack, Jack, Jack, my naive little pet, it's the sweet ones that you have to watch out for. They'll run over you like a Mack truck.
Jack: Well Henry's harmless. Besides, he worships you.
Jen: He's a teenage boy. He'll worship anything in a Wonderbra.

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Henry: [about Jen] You see. You see what happens to me, why I can't ask her out? She gets within three feet of me and it's like my hard drive crashes. I go pre-verbal. Probably if I asked her out, I'd hurl all over her like that little kid from Southpark.

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Henry: You… you're awesome. You look awesome, you smell awesome, everything about you is awesome. I… I just wanted you to know that.
Jen: Good to know.

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Jen: Jack, I've had lovers, I've had boyfriends, but what I've never had is a boy who was first and last a friend. Who wasn't secretly trying to get in my pants, or wouldn't walk away from me the second I said I didn't want to sleep with him. Who liked me… for me. Unless you've recently decided to be bisexual? You know, I think you setting me up was a lot more about you than it was me.
Jack: Come on, give me a break. I do not have a secret crush on Henry Parker.
Jen: Neither do I, but that's not what I'm talking about. I mean that… maybe it's you who's lonely for the relationship.
Jack: Well maybe I am. But this isn't exactly New York where gay kids are tripping over each other coming out of the closet. This is Capeside, gay population: one. It's me. I'm it.
Jen: Jack, you're going to have a love life. You're going to have a fantastic love life. It's gonna be awesome, and terrifying, and, and when it happens it's going to change your whole life.
Jack: Yeah, it's easy for you to say.
Jen: I know it is. You have to have faith that sometimes things happen when they're least expected.

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Jen: [to Henry] Do you know how much is going to happen to you in the next two years if you do them right? You're heart is going to swell and break a hundred times before you turn 16.

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Andie: I slept with another guy six months ago! I knew it was wrong when I did it. I keep trying to tell you this and make you understand it. How many times do I have to say it?
Pacey: Andie, If you wanted to sleep with him, if even just for a second, then maybe it wasn't wrong.
Andie: It was...
Pacey: Maybe. Maybe that was just your heart's way of telling you that I'm not the one. 'Cause that's what my heart's telling me right now... it's telling me that you're not the one.

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Joey: [to Rob] Didn't you read the sign? No known sex offenders within 200 yards of my property!

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Pacey: Really? Yeah, Potter, do yourself a favor. Don't ever go into politics, okay? You're consistently incapable of lying with a straight face.

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Jen: They voted for me because I'm blonde and I fill out my sweater,
Dawson: That too, but I think when... you know, when kids voted for you, they voted for an outsider, you know? Provocateur, messiah to lead them from the mainstream.

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Pacey: [about having sex] Well, alright then. Okay. [pause] Did you want to do it right now?
Jen: Umm, do you?
Pacey: I'm kinda tired, actually.
Jen: Oh, fine. Roswell's on in five minutes anyway. You just let me know when you want to do it and I'll do it.

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Jen: I've got to say, Blair Witch didn't do it for me. I wasn't remotely scared, that girl was irritating beyond measure and i had to run to the snack bar in dire need of dramamine.
Joey: I was scared...
Pacey: That's no surprise there, Potter, after all you are quite the skittish kitten. (They bump hips.)

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Pacey: What I said last night was way out of line...and yes I was drunk, but more to the point I was just plain wrong and I wanted you to know that I was really sorry.
Joey: Well...I was worried about you too, Pacey.
Pacey: Me?...Why?
Joey: Well...because, I mean Satan himself could lead Dawson into the fiery pits of hell and he would still come out with his moral code firmly intact, but you....maybe I think that nobody's worrying about you right now.
Pacey: So then, what you're really saying is, given the highly dysfunctional nature of our relationship, this is actually how you express concern for me?
Joey: You gotta learn to read between the banter, Pacey.
Pacey: Right...[long pause]
Joey: So...so, are we all finished here?
Pacey: No, actually, um...there's something else.
Joey: Something else?
Pacey: Yeah...it's just something I've been meaning to tell you...uh...look, uh...Joey...[They give each other cute looks]...you're lingering on your clutch, okay? I know you think you're just easing into the gear, but...it's not a good idea, you know, maybe not today and maybe not tomorrow, but soon you're going to do a lot of damage to your transmission, so...what I was thinking was that if you wanted to, I could show you.
Joey: Now?
Pacey: Yeah. [they smile at each other]
Joey: Okay, Pacey.

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[Pacey and Jen are grocery shopping for Grams' thanksgiving feast]
Pacey: When I suggested that we hook up today, this is not exactly what I had in mind.
Jen: Believe me, I know, but unfortunatly, Grams' Thanksgiving feast takes precedence over our burgeoning sex life.
Pacey: Correct me if I'm wrong, but we don't actually have a sex life yet, do we?
Jen: What, and you think that that's my fault?
Pacey: Yeah, i do actually think that that's your fault.
Jen: I'm sorry, Pacey. I just find it difficult to watch you paw at me with...[giggles]
Pacey: Foreplay is no laughing matter. How do you expect a guy to do his best work in the face of scorn and derision?
Jen: It's just that we're friends, right? And seeing as how we are friends, but now we're friends that...do that... it's just gonna take time getting used to it. Although maybe we could find a moment later?
Pacey: I can't. I think I have to go to my parents' for Thanksgiving.
Jen: Okay.
Pacey: I'm sorry. I have to. I figure it's the right thing to do seeing as they brought me into the world and all.
Jen: You sound so excited.
Pacey: Well it's such a joyous occasion. Just imagine the Witter women slaving over a hot stove all afternoon just to be told the Butterball is too dry, by a guy sitting on his derrière, getting drunk and watching football.
Jen: Well, despite the creamed onions, gotta love Grams for offering an alternative.
Pacey: You do. Speaking of, you know, you never told me who else is coming.
Jen: Don't worry, Pacey. Andie politely declined the invite.
Pacey: Hey I wasn't going there.
Jen: Please. I think that she's making dinner for Jack and her dad tonight.
Pacey: Sounds nice. It's good for her to have family a

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