Gretchen quotes from Dawson's Creek

Gretchen

Doug wakes me up every morning at 7 dust-bustering the kitchen. It's like living with Felix Unger on crack.

Gretchen

"Dear Dawson... I've been thinking about what to say to you since I left your house yesterday. I thought about waiting for you to come to my door, saying this face to face, but I knew it would be too hard. I realize that, as much as I need to move on, you need to stay here. Your whole life is about to change in a way that will never be the same. You're opening a new chapter, and you have to give a proper good-bye to the old one. You don't want to miss these moments, even the sad ones, because you'll never get them back. So enjoy this time. Let it wash over you so that your memories of it are strong. Besides, I don't need to spend a month in a car to fall in love with you. I already am in love with you, even more than you know. So good-bye, Dawson Leery. Thank you for changing my life and opening my heart again. You'll never know how much it meant to me. Have a bitchin' summer. Love, Gretchen."

Gretchen

But you know what my teacher said was the most bogus line in Hollywood cinema?

Dawson

What?

Gretchen

"There's no place like home."

Dawson

The Wizard of Oz.

Gretchen

Guys, Gale's been throwing up a lot, right?

Mitch

Yeah.

Gretchen

And she's still hungry and putting on some weight. She's tired all the time. Her back hurts. Irritability. Mood swings.

Dawson

Yeah.

Mitch

The worst. How'd you know?

Gretchen

Sounds to me like she'll be feeling a lot better in about nine months.

Drue

Hi there, we haven't met.

Gretchen

I don't have a problem with that.

Gretchen

Is it possible, even in the vaguest way, you're here because you think there's a chance something's happening between us?

Dawson

It think there is something happening between us. It's called friendship.

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.

Gretchen

You sound like a guy who just broke up with this girl. And he's happy he broke up with her; at least he says he is. And he goes on and on about how much better off he is without her. But the thing is, he can't stop talking about her. Everything comes back to this girl. You love this girl, Dawson.

Dawson

And that, oddly enough, has not kept her from breaking my heart time and time again.

Gretchen

[about Joey being upset by seeing her and Dawson kissing] I think you should be understanding and sweet and kind.

Pacey

And if none of that works?

Gretchen

Force the issue. Be a world class jerk. You can do it, Pacey. I know you can. I have complete and total faith in you.

Pacey

Any other day that I was to find you making out on the basement floor with Dawson of all people, I would probably freak out. And then we would have words. But not today. Today I don't want to talk about it. I don't want to think about it. In fact, I'd like to pretend it never even happen, cause frankly I got bigger problems on my mind.

Gretchen

Which are?

Pacey

A conversation that I'm supposed to have with Joey, that will impact the entire rest of our relationship.

Pacey

I'm offering a brother's opinion, okay, and, as your brother, I can firmly tell you... That is not a leaving-the-house kind of outfit. That's like the bottom layer of something that will become a leaving-the-house outfit when you put on a sweater or something.

Gretchen

This is a sweater.

Pacey

A sweater is a big, baggy, shapeless thing which hides the human form. They design them specifically for sisters on dates.

Gretchen

Yeah, me as Pacey's sister and her ever trusty barkeep, maybe. Me as Mrs. Robinson, maybe not.

Dawson

Come on, 3 years does not make you Mrs. Robinson.

Gretchen

You have no idea what you're doing, do you?

Dawson

No.

Gretchen

Good, keep it that way. Because the second you become aware of just how charming you are, you're going to use your powers for evil.

Gretchen

Just promise me something.

Dawson

Anything.

Gretchen

That you'll always be as honest with me as you were last night. Cause that's the hardest part about having a relationship. It's so much harder than sex. And trusting someone is like this gigantic act of faith. You put it out there and you can never really be sure if you're gonna get it back. Sex... sex is just mechanical.

Gretchen

You lied to Dawson about you and Pacey having sex.

Joey

I made a decision, a very private decision about my life and I really don't want the whole world to know about that.

Gretchen

You really don't want Dawson to know about that.

Joey

It's the same thing.

Gretchen

No it's not, Joey. I don't want to be an ogre here, but lying to Dawson isn't going to solve anything. It's not fair to him and it's not fair to somebody who's trying to have a relationship with him.

Joey

Meaning you.