Dawson Leery quotes from Dawson's Creek

Joey

So, thank you.

Dawson

For what?

Joey

For being my friend, for understanding me better than anyone, and for putting up with me for the last 16 years...I love you.

Dawson

I love you, too.

Jack

Hey guys, did uh, Joey talk to you yet?

Dawson

About what?

Jack

Well the Ice House is catering a wedding on Saturday and we need some extra hands, it's 60 bucks for the day.

Pacey

Sold! For 60 bucks I'd cater your ass.

Jack

[laughs] Well, that won't be necessary.

Joey

I just, um, I hope wherever she is, she's happy.

Dawson

She's happy. She's looking down on you...and she's very happy.

Joey

Well I have to admit I am a little surprised that you are okay with this considering that it is our one month anniversary for whatever we are, or were, or are.

Dawson

Joey, we are boring, trite people okay? We're absolutely incapable of spontaneity. We do things like plan, and organize, and make reservations weeks in advance at top notch restaurants to celebrate one month anniversaries of whatever we are, or were...or are.

Dawson

Do you have a fever or something?

Eve

Oh, that's just me. My temperature. I run a few degrees hot.

Joey

You think every Joey has a Dawson and every Dawson has a Joey?

Dawson

I hope so...for their sake.

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.

Glow in the darks don't work.

No kidding?

No, you gotta hold 'em up to the light for 20 minutes, who's got time for that?

And if you really want to blow her mind try the Brown Betty.

Dawson

This is not happening.

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.

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 1950s 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?

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.

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.

Dawson

If he did meet somebody else and forgot about her than obviously they were never meant to be in the first place. See my point?

Joey

Could you be any more naive?

Dawson

Could you be any more cynical?

Jen

Could you be any more irritating?

Dawson

Hey, once upon a time, you yourself told me that some love stories never end. What happened to that girl?

Joey

She offered herself to the boy she loved. The boy she thought loved her back. And he rejected her.

Pacey

And what pray tell, are you two doing here?

Jen

Just enjoying the fine art of ball room dancing.

[Walking up] Didn't I say you two would be naturals? Much better than these two and they've been here all week. But you used to date, didn't you?

Jen

Uh...look, not right now, okay?

I'm right, aren't I? You dated, it didn't work out. But then you got past all your issues and now you actually trust each other, right? See, you can see that in the dancing. You can see, that the trust is there. Now these two on the other hand...[Points out Pacey and Joey dancing] Whole different story. I mean, look at them. Look at their..their form, look at the tension in their arms...

Pacey

Okay is there some sort of problem here?

What did I say about rib cages touching?

Joey

No, sorry.

Pacey

It's just not going to happen, alright?

Right...see what I mean? See the hostility, the way they're weary with each other, not to mention the constant bickering and name calling. Now these two clearly are in the early stages of some screwball mating ritual.

Pacey

What?

Joey

[Scoffs] Okay, you've got it all wrong, lady.

Really? I do?

Pacey

Oh, completely.

Joey

Actually, you could not be more wrong.

Okay. There's enough sexual tension here to power a KISS reunion tour. I can't remember the last time I saw dancing this bad....true...

Dawson

Wait a minute, you think that just because they can't dance that they're...?

Well, it's this theory that I've developed based on years of experience...if people dance that badly, then they're usually hot for each other...the dancing doesn't lie.

Dawson

Okay, so... Do you want to just tell me what's going on?

Pacey

It's not what you think, Dawson, not even close.

Dawson

How do you know what I think?

Pacey

Well, because man it's written all over your face, okay? Yes, me and Joey have been spending a lot of time together recently, because we've been here trying to learn how to ballroom dance and then she's teaching me a little trigonometry. You know what's much more interesting to me is that out of all the possible blond and brunette combinations, of women you and I both know, the first one that popped into your mind is Joey, now why is that, do you think?

Dawson

Pacey, you're not going to get out of this by attempting to psychoanalyze me.

Pacey

I'm just asking a simple question. I mean, Dawson, you and Joey...she's not your girlfriend anymore.

Dawson

Right, she's not.

Pacey

Right...so then why are we having this conversation? See where I'm going with this? I mean, you're the same guy who told me a couple weeks ago that the two of you just needed to go your separate ways.

Dawson

Yeah, we do need to go our separate ways, it just never occurred to me that...

Pacey

That what? That she would actually go her separate way too...or perhaps it didn't occur to you that her separate way would include a stop over at me, is that what it is? God, man, this is the way it always is with you, you talk and talk but you don't listen to yourself. I mean, you say you're over her, but you're not. They're just words. They don't mean anything to you.

Dawson

You don't know what you're talking about.

Pacey

[Scoffs and turns and gestures over at Joey, who is dancing with an old man] Look at that girl, Dawson. Just take a good look, she's a freaking goddess, man, 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 is at 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

What are you hiding, Pacey?

Pacey

What?

Dawson

Because all this analysis on my love life doesn't change the fact that you haven't answered my original question, why did I find that condom?

Pacey

Why do I bother? [Turns around and walks away]