perhaps you should start figuring out right now, because the guy that comes along is not going to be your best friend and he's not going to ask for your permission. the guy that comes along is going to take one look at that woman and just cut right in on ya ...

Why do I do just as you say?
Why must I just give you your way?
Why do I sigh?
Why don't I try to forget?
It must have been that something lovers call fate
Kept me saying: "I have to wait"
I saw them all, just couldn't fall 'til we met.
It had to be you, it had to be you
I wandered around and finally found
The somebody who could make me be true
And could make me be blue
And even be glad, just to be sad
Thinking of you.
Some others I've seen might never be mean
Might never be cross, or try to be boss
But they wouldn't do
For nobody else gave me a thrill
With all your faults, I love you still
It had to be you, wonderful you
It had to be you
-"It Had to be You" by Frank Sinatra

"The blues are because you're getting fat and maybe it's been raining too long -- you're just sad, that's all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you're afraid, and you don't know what you're afraid of."
-Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's

"Anything that's worth anything is scary."
-Dawson's Creek (Episode 3.1)


"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 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."
-Dawson's Creek (Episode 3.1)


"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 going to 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."
-Dawson's Creek (Episode 3.2)

"It's just your friends who have to sit here and suffer through the ... morality play. ... Ho-bags willing to put out need not audition."
-Dawson's Creek (Episode 3.3)

"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."
-Dawson's Creek (Episode 3.3)


"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!"
-Dawson's Creek (Episode 3.4)

"It's the sweet ones that you have to watch out for -- they'll run you over like a Mack truck."
-Dawson's Creek (Episode 3.5)

"You have to have faith that sometimes, things happen when they're least expected."
-Dawson's Creek (Episode 3.5)


"See the hostility? The way they're weary with each other, not to mention the constant bickering and name calling. Now these two are clearly in the early stages of some screwball mating ritual."
-Dawson's Creek (Episode 3.9)

Pacey: "How long did you think it was going to be before some guy comes along and is interested in her? I mean really, dude. And when that happens, what are you going to do?"
Dawson: "I ... I'm just going to take it all as it comes."
Pacey: "You're going to take all as it comes, hombre? Well, perhaps you should start figuring out right now, because the guy that comes along is not going to be your best friend and he's not going to ask for your permission. The guy that comes along is going to take one look at that woman and just cut right in on ya."
-Dawson's Creek (Episode 3.9)

"She's obviously got something that makes boys in emotional turmoil just flock to her."
-Dawson's Creek (Episode 3.9)


"The way something looks from afar might be quite different from the way it appears to your near-sighted eye."
-Dawson's Creek (Episode 3.10)

"I also wanted to remind you that, even though sometimes my emotions - particularly jealous - uh, sometimes get the best of me, I still hear you. No matter how much we yell, or no matter how quiet you are. I hear you."
-Dawson's Creek (Episode 3.11)

"There is no time constraint on how long you can care about someone, no limit on how much -- especially if they've been so much a part of your life already."
-Dawson's Creek (Episode 3.12)

Dawson: "What I don't understand is that you and Dad seem to really like each other, still care about each other."
Gale: "Well we do, honey. Which is what makes the knowledge that we're better off apart even more difficult to bear. I mean, think about your own life."
Dawson: "What about it?"
Gale: "You and Joey. The decision to break up isn't made in one sitting. It's cumulative. You have to re-decide over and over each day."
-Dawson's Creek (Episode 3.12)

"You know you love someone when you can spend the entire night just sitting by the fire, watching him sleep."
-Dawson's Creek (Episode 3.12)

"She ain't easy, alright? She's physically incapable of keeping her mouth shut for more than two seconds at a time. She's got an opinion about everything. I mean, it's uncanny."
-Dawson's Creek (Episode 3.12)

"Why do I feel like I fell asleep on a train and woke up the protagonist in a Kafka story?"
-Dawson's Creek (Episode 3.17)

"The only reason that you don't have any answers is because you've been too scared to ask yourself the right questions."
-Dawson's Creek (3.19)

"But the stubborn falcon wasn't ready to give him up. All she could do was tuck her head under her wing and wait."
-from It Had to be You (Gossip Girl prequel) by Cecily vonZiegesar

"She was perplexingly unpredictable. She'd laugh for hours if she spotted a cloud shaped like a toilet seat, or something equally as ridiculous, and the next moment she'd be wistful and sad. It was impossible to tell what she was thinking most of the time."
-from It Had to be You (Gossip Girl prequel) by Cecily vonZiegesar