You were the best mother that I know. And you were wrong if you think you've disappointed me at every turn, Mom. All you've done is made me proud. You're not afraid to make mistakes. And when to pick up and to keep going and keep trying new things. And I owe some much of who I am to you. To both of you. I used to idealize this perfect childhood. This perfect little house. And then you guys gave me something so much better. You gave me something real. And if I had to do it over again, I wouldn't change a thing. If you guys are even half the parents to your next kid that you were to me, he'd be the luckiest kid in all the world.
S4A Family Way
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.
I am the oldest seventeen year old in Capeside, Bessie. My whole life is consequences and responsibility, okay?
S4Great Xpectations
Hi there, we haven't met.
I don't have a problem with that.
Is it possible, even in the vaguest way, you're here because you think there's a chance something's happening between us?
It think there is something happening between us. It's called friendship.
You know, Dawson... I think about it sometimes and wherever we go next, it's hard to imagine life without you.
You did pretty well for three months.
I think you know what I mean.
Yeah. Yeah, I do.
It's scary how things can turn so bad so fast.
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.
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...
Do you know what I think? If Dawson is waiting for some childhood crush to come around, he's not waiting on me.
S4You Had Me at Goodbye
I think what we're going to miss about you the most, McPhee, is your overwhelming optimism. Your ardent believe that everything in the world is wonderful until proven crap.
I reacted like Pacey.
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.
As you take on years Mr. Leery, you'll come to realize that you don't always lose people from your life by choice. Sometimes it just happens when you make the wrong ones.
Maybe not all friendships have to be saved. You know, maybe we're just meant to spend a certain part of our lives with certain people and then move on. Isn't that what this whole year is suppose to be about? Moving on?
Pacey, we can move on without moving away from each other.
Pacey, Joey, Dawson. You guys are so lucky. Do you have any idea how rare it is to have friends that you've known your entire life? So please don't underestimate that. Because in the end you always go back to the people that were there in the beginning. And in the beginning, there was the three of you.
S4The Unusual Suspects
Do you think it's possible that someday I could convince you that maybe I'm the type of person you could trust again?
I would like to believe that it is.
When you told me you'd never be able to trust me again, that was probably among the top 5 worst moments of my life.
When I walked out on my back porch and saw you and Joey, that was my worst. Number 1 with a bullet.
Pacey, I think that you're a daring original. I think you have a talent for flying in the face of conventionality. And I think that you were born to break the rules, not enforce them. And you know what? I actually admire that in you. I really do.
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