Jen Lindley quotes from Dawson's Creek

Abby

You are aware that where this tape begins, Dawson finished?

Andie

Finished what?

Jen

Shaking hands with the unemployed.

Joey

Boxing the bald-headed bishop.

Abby

Test-firing the missile.

Andie

All right, I get your point, guys.

Jen

Hey! Being a good boy?

Always.

Jen

I'm disappointed.

Jen

Ty, is there a problem?

Jen, I would like to say that this accident could have been avoided, but with you standing nearby, I lose all ability to concentrate on the job at hand.

Jen

Down boy.

Dawson

Here I am single, sandwiched in-between two women who both dumped me. I am pathetic.

Jen

Hey, look at me, I'm dating a bible thumping hypocrite, okay?

Joey

Hey, my boyfriend may be gay.

Evelyn Ryan?... It's me... Whit, Whit Hubley.

Grams

Lord in heavens. I thought you were dead.

Jen

[under her breath] Great pick-up line.

Jen

Grams, I'm serious. I saw the look in his eyes. He was having impure thoughts about you.

Grams

Oh you stop it, you stop that talk right now.

Jen

I have three conditions.

Grams

What are they?

Jen

One - that we address the reality of why this didn't work out before. I know I made some mistakes. But even on my best behavior I never felt that I was comfortable living here with you. I never felt I was good enough.

Grams

Oh, Jennifer.

Jen

Two - I need you to acknowledge that I've been through a lot in my life, more than most girls my age, and what I need is your support, not your judgement. Especially not His judgement.

Grams

Okay, I think I can manage that.

Jen

What you need to understand, Grams, I don't need a legal guardian to be able to survive and I can handle a lot more than you think. But what I want is to live here with you. I want a family. I want us to take care of each other and I don't want to be alone anymore.

Grams

Neither do I. [They hug] Was there a third?

Jen

Yes. There's somebody else who doesn't want to be alone anymore either.

Grams

Well, I've been meaning to clear out your grandfather's room for awhile.

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.

Jen

What are you auctioning off?

Well, the winner gets to ride in on the Minuteman Mule, at the end of the game.

And receive a kiss from the head cheerleader.

Jen

Oh, no they don't!

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

Jen

I say witch is just a buzzword. For a girl who happens to follow her completely healthy, totally natural urges, and explore her sexuality. But see, you can't do that in school in the swingin' 1690s without getting the good townsfolk all up in arms. So what do these puritanical, impotent creeps do? Instead of reaching for the Viagra, they brand these girls as witches, they send them off to this godforsaken island to die a horrible solitary death.

Joey

Well, lucky for you, Jen... I mean, we live in a world where you can follow your natural urges without fear of persecution.

Jen

You're right. I would've been so burned at the stake by now.

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?