and no matter how much I love you or how long I stay with you, you’re only gonna remember the moments when I leave.
- Dawson's Creekwhy don't you try being the girl who has to wonder why all the people she loves.. don't love her back?
- Dawson's CreekJoey: Dawson, I'm sorry I don't have the same dreams I had when I was 15 years old, and I'm sorry that I moved on faster than you did, but you know what? Maybe not everything that happens to you is my fault! And maybe just because I want more from my life than--
Dawson: more than what? More than us? You don't know, do you? You've never known. The entire time I've known you, all you've wanted to do is escape. From me, from Capeside. I mean, you say that I'm the dreamer. I'm the one who doesn't wanna live in the real world. Well, I'm doing it, Joey. Right now. I'm living in the real world. It's you who wants the fantasy
I’m leaving because you never asked me to stay
- Dawson's CreekBecause... I saw you out there talking to her. I saw your face when you were watching her leave, and I realized that... she hurt you way more than you ever hurt me
- Dawson's CreekSo you're breaking my heart into a million pieces, and you're saying it's because I deserve better?
- Dawson's Creekin the best possible way, you have absolutely wrecked me, because you see, i fell in love with you knowing that there was never any possibility of being with you.
- Dawson's CreekI don’t know. It’s like, there’s this person that you want to be for other people. To make them proud of you. And then there’s you. And sometimes it’s hard to tell where one ends and the other begins. Does that make any sense?
- Dawson's Creekyou're not mad at me for kissing you, you're mad at yourself for kissing me back
- Dawson's CreekHow can you simply be friends with someone when every time you look at them all you can think of is how much more you want
- Dawson's CreekYou know those moments when you totally don't wanna cry, but... you're not quite sure what else to do?
- Dawson's CreekJoey: You never look back, do you?
Pacey: Why would you look back? The future's out there. And whatever it is, it's gonna be great.
Joey: I was scared.
Dawson: Of what?
Joey: Of going backwards, of never growing up.
Dawson: That's what I represent to you?
Joey: No, not you. Us. I started this year thinking that I had to say good-bye to you, but I was wrong. Dawson, you're a huge part of my life-- past, present, and future-- and I have to start getting used to that because... you make my life better, not worse
Because I have to tell you that I am really truly sorry for everything, and I'm sorry that I wasn't completely truthful with you, and I'm sorry for my predilection for the company of older women. It's just that... [Sighs] This has been a really strange year for me, Audrey, 'cause while the rest of you guys were off doin' the whole college thing, I was just doin' my best to stay afloat, and, believe me, nobody's handin' out road maps for the road less traveled. You just kinda gotta get on and start drivin'. But, ultimately, the only thing that I want to take away from this year, and the only thing that I'm gonna remember is you because you are amazing, Audrey, and you came along at a time when I thought all the big loves of my life were behind me, and you just rocked my world. And I know that you and I don't actually even know each other that well yet, but...[Sighs] I'm sure that I could live without you, I'm just not sure that I want to,
- Dawson's Creekwhere everything is said in silence because the emotion behind what we really want to say is just too overwhelming.
- Dawson's CreekI like to think that I have the finger on a pulse of the common man and, believe me, that pulse quickens considerably when you walk by.
- Dawson's CreekI care about you so much, but if I ever lost you, I would be standing here totally void of anything else in my life. I live in total fear of doing nothing, of going nowhere, and that is why I shut you out. Because if I can't have something to hold onto independently from you, then I don't have anything at all.
- Dawson's CreekWell, in my experience, erratic behavior of the female orientation usually means the root of the problem is something unexpected.
- Dawson's Creekin all other respects, we were on 2 different planets, and that's what I came to tell you the other day. I'm fine. I've grown up.
- Dawson's Creekits a powerful thing when you get your biggest wish in one moment
- Dawson's CreekI'm going to take the unplanned route for a little while in hopes that whatever we lost, we'll be able to stumble upon again.
- Dawson's CreekGranted at first it was really hard for me to accept.. you had moved on and you let go. So, I, in turn... let go of you
- Dawson's CreekAs textbook healthy as the letting go theory sounds... It doesn't apply to me. This isn't a case of teen romance gone sour, I know what i want.. I want her. she's really hurting right now and whether she knows it or not, she needs me - so I have absolutely no intention of letting her go
- Dawson's CreekWhat I have to say, you're not going to like, so I'll say it quickly. I hope one day that I'll be able to forgive my father for all of this, and I don't know if I'll ever be able to forgive myself, but I know that I will never forgive you. There are certain circumstances that love can not overcome and from now on...I don't want to know you.
- Dawson's CreekIt is worse to be incapable of loving then to not be loved.
- Dawson's Creek