Joey Potter quotes from Dawson's Creek

Joey

I think I'm in love with you.

Pacey

You think, or you know?

Joey

I know. I've known it since the moment you kissed me and maybe even before that. And... [exhales] … scary as it is, I don't want to deny it any more, Pacey. I don't want to run from it, and I don't want to let it run from me.

Joey

I would like to offer it to you as a...

Dawson

Please don't say symbol.

Joey

As an emblematic artifact representing the foundation of... of a new friendship.

Pacey

Good lord woman, you really are a fickle mistress, you know that? I mean without kissing, what do we really have left?

Joey

Precious little, we should probably break up.

Pacey

Yeah, well, we had a good run, huh?

Joey

Mm-hmm

Drue

My father, who is a world class cretin, says stuff like that to the help all the time and I always think what an idiot, you know? I mean they're just going to go back in the kitchen and spit in his food...or worse even.

Joey

Fancy that, will you excuse me while I go check on your order.

Drue

Must be the Star Wars thing.

Dawson

Star Wars thing?

Drue

It's classic, you are obviously Luke to this Pacey guy's Han Solo. So you're the stuff of pre-teen daydreams, cute, smart, non-threatening. Which is great and all, but not for princess Joey here who is clearly smack dab in the middle of her bad boy phase.

Joey

And where do you fit in to this whole scenario Drue? Jabba the Hut, I think.

Drue

[cell phone rings while they are working on a project] Hello, hey gorgeous.

Dawson

Unbelievable.

Joey

Unacceptable. [grabs cell phone] Hello, gorgeous is it? Hi, yes, this is Drue's doctor and he's gonna have to get back to you when the syphilis clears up, ok? Bye-bye.

Joey

I wanna be with you, Pacey. I wanna stay and be with you.

Pacey

[sighs] Well if you wanna be with me, then staying here would be a really stupid idea, considering I don't plan to be here... I plan to be wherever you are.

Drue

Witter, I knew you couldn't resist a party. I see you've brought the Grim Reaper.

Joey

Reaping for your mortal soul, that is if you have one.

Pacey

I don't want to make you do anything that you're not ready to do.

Joey

No. Pacey, I get it. Just as long as you realize that if you do turn into some typical hormone filled silly ass boy and try to manipulate me again, you're out the door.

Joey

Pacey's not the problem. It's me. I mean, let's face it, the waiting just goes on and on. And at this point even I'm getting impatient. But for some reason, I just keep waiting.

Jen

Joey, let me ask you something. Are you sure that you really want to have sex?

Joey

Of course I want to have sex. But the question is, am I ready?

You're a seventeen-year-old girl who doesn't understand the first thing about consequences and responsibility. You are not ready to have sex.

Joey

I am the oldest seventeen year old in Capeside, Bessie. My whole life is consequences and responsibility, okay?

Joey

You know, Dawson... I think about it sometimes and wherever we go next, it's hard to imagine life without you.

Dawson

You did pretty well for three months.

Joey

I think you know what I mean.

Dawson

Yeah. Yeah, I do.

Dawson

It's scary how things can turn so bad so fast.

Joey

It's scary how real everything's been this year, you know? Jen and Pacey in the storm. Andie tonight. Does make you kind of realize that one of us can go at any moment for the stupidest of reasons.

Joey

Gretchen, Dawson has this way of hanging on to things since he was like 12. You know, sure he outgrows them in their proper perspective. But that doesn't always mean that they're gone. Sometimes I think they're just waiting around for the right moment to come out again... and maybe if he thinks there's the slightest chance...

Gretchen

Do you know what I think? If Dawson is waiting for some childhood crush to come around, he's not waiting on me.

Pacey

I reacted like Pacey.

Joey

You know who that guy you reacted like is going to be in 10 years, Pace? The person who knows me best. Dawson knows my past. My future lies with you. Think about it, you know you didn't even like me three years ago.