[to Joey] Because I'm afraid okay? I'm afraid that I'm not enough for you and that I never will be alright? And if I do this that you're just going to realize that you've grown way beyond me and then I'm... I'm just going to lose you again.
S2Ch...Ch...Ch...Changes
MMr.McPhee
If I'd just been around more.
It wouldn't have made a difference. I'm gay for the same reasons that Tim wasn't. It just happened that way.
MMr.McPhee
But there are people who change, they go back.
I'm hardly the encyclopedia of the gay experience but, I'd wager to say that their change is skeptical.
MMr.McPhee
How do you know? Unless you try.
I don't want to try. Why do you want me to try?
MMr.McPhee
Because I can not understand why anyone would choose that kind of life.
I didn't choose it. The only thing I chose was to be happy. Look, I can't go back for you because slowly but surely I'd be going to sacrifice my happiness for yours because I want you to be proud of me. But not under your terms. It just, it won't work.
[to Jen] Look, I often wonder how my mom would act if she was aware of what was happening to me, if she was capable of comprehending it. I don't think she'd have a problem with it because my mom loves me for the best reason possible... no reason at all. Because that's the way our parents should love us Jen. Unconditionally. Sadly, most parents don't. But as much as it hurts... it's worse for them. It is worse to be incapable of loving than to not be loved.
I don't want to say goodbye. I just want to look at you... I wish I had some eloquent parting words for you but... all I could think of was this. Thank you. Thank you for everything you've given to me. Thank you for forcing me be the man you made me. Just thank you. I am so grateful to you, Andie.
Oh, I don't want to let you go, Pacey.
Just remember your promise okay? You and me, together again, happy, healthy and more in love than ever
I'll remember.
Go get better McPhee, and then you hurry back to me.
S2Parental Discretion Advised
You have a test to get to. Don't screw up!
Isn't there any positive words you can ever say to me?
I'm positive that you will not screw up!
[about Joey's father] That bastard was lying to me. He's in it up to his neck and he knows it.
Come on, you don't even know if this has anything to do with him.
A random arson incident in the middle of Capeside? Let's consider the chances of that, Pacey. If God hadn't blessed ya with my good looks, I wouldn't know whose son you were. Why don't you drive yourself home before you make another embarrassing comment?
I think I'll walk.
As if I care.
Nobody assumed you did, Pop.
You'll have to excuse my son, boys. His girlfriend moves away and all of a sudden it's his time of the month.
Screw you, okay?
[Mr. Witter grabs his arm and Pacey quickly removes it]
Get your hands off me, you don't touch me again, ever!
Finally my boy gets a pair, and all it took was getting his heart broke by some little girl with a few screws loose.
[Pacey throws a punch at Mr. Witter]
Andie did more for my life in six months than you did in sixteen years you rotten son of a bitch. So If you wanna make fun of me? You wanna bust on me? That's fine. But you so much as make one more even slightly disparaging comment about the women I love, and I swear to God, you're gonna be policing this town from a hospital bed. You understand me? And one more thing, even if Mr. Potter was involved in all this, he's still 10 times the father you ever were!
I have three conditions.
What are they?
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.
Oh, Jennifer.
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.
Okay, I think I can manage that.
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.
Neither do I. [They hug] Was there a third?
Yes. There's somebody else who doesn't want to be alone anymore either.
[She motions towards Jack]
Well, I've been meaning to clear out your grandfather's room for awhile.
[to Dawson] What I have to say, you're not going to like, so I'll say it quickly. I hope one day that I'll be able to forgive my father for all of this, and I don't know if I'll ever be able to forgive myself, but I know that I will never forgive you. See, Dawson, there are certain circumstances that love can not overcome and from now on... I don't want to know you.
S3Like a Virgin
Listen, Dawson, anything that's worth anything is scary. Or dangerous in one way or another.
Do you have a fever or something?
Oh, that's just me. My temperature. I run a few degrees hot.
[to Joey] It's the damndest thing. I just got into Dawson's rowboat and it magically drifted towards your dock.
Ahoy there, anyone ashore?
What are you doing here?
It's the damnedest thing, I just got into to Dawson's row boat and it magically drifted toward your dock.
Yeah, well magically drift any closer and I'll kill you.
You know, I almost believed that. [Jumps up to join her on the dock]
[After a pause between the two as they looked at each other] He told you didn't he? Didn't he?
Well, what do you think?
I think I hate you both.
Well, then you're really going to hate me when you hear what I have to say....he did the right thing. The two of you need to be apart right now.
How would you know what I need?
Yeah...you know you're probably right. 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 that 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...
Of all the people to see me like this, it had to be you.
Well, you know it's a new year and who knows...[leans in close to her] you and I might even become friends
Pacey...[Looks at him] I'm upset enough as it is. [Pacey laughs]
[Puts arm around her] Come here, Potter .
[Pacey kisses Joey's forehead]
S3Homecoming
I'm just a girl, standing in a janitor's closet, asking you to kiss her.
You think every Joey has a Dawson and every Dawson has a Joey?
I hope so...for their sake.
[Dawson is standing in the aisle looking at the wide variety of condoms]
MCMale Customer
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.
MCMale Customer 2
Glow in the darks don't work.
MCMale Customer 1
No kidding?
MCMale Customer 2
No, you gotta hold 'em up to the light for 20 minutes, who's got time for that?
[woman customer walks up]
WCWoman Customer
And if you really want to blow her mind try the Brown Betty.
[they all grab a pack and walk away]
This is not happening.
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