“Pilot” quotes from One Tree Hill

Lucas

Mom, you okay?

Karen

Yeah. Do you know who left it?

Lucas

Coach Durham, probably. He asked me to play.

Karen

Maybe you should. [ Chuckles ]

Lucas

You sound like Skills. Those guys refused to play today. They said they didn't want to be my excuse.

Karen

How'd you feel about that?

Lucas

Honestly? I was pissed. Those guys are supposed to be my friends.

Karen

They are your friends. [She shows him a picture of himself as a boy, with a basketball] Do you remember that?

Lucas

My first leather basketball. That was the year that skill's father told us there was no Santa Claus.

Karen

Yeah, and I tried to talk you out of it. [ Chuckles ] then you said something I'll never forget. You said you felt bad for the kids who never figured it out, because when they grew up and had kids of their own, there wouldn't be any gifts on Christmas morning. You're a good kid, Luke. But sometimes I feel like you're sitting out your life on account of me, and I don't want that for you. My past is not your future, okay?

Haley

So, Nathan challenged you. Are you gonna play him?

Lucas

I don't know. It's not like I have anything to prove.

Haley

But don't you just want to show him sometimes -- oh, damn! [A flock of birds flys in front of Lucas and Haley]

Haley

What is up?! I was attacked a flock of crows last week! I'm totally serious!

Lucas

by the way, it's a murder.

Haley

What?

Lucas

More than one crow is a murder.

Haley

I don't know what the hell you're talking about.

Lucas

A parliament of owls, an exultation of larks, a murder of crows.

Haley

I think that is why people think you're weird, right there. [ Chuckles ]

Lucas

I would like to show him sometimes, though, what a mistake he's made.

Haley

Dan?

Lucas

Mostly for mom... And...Sometimes for me.

Haley

So, Luke, what are ravens -- I mean, more than one?

Lucas

An unkindness.

Lucas

Can I ask you a question?

Peyton

It's a free country.

Lucas

Why are you a cheerleader? No offense or anything, but you're about the least cheery person I now.

Lucas

Come on. Let me give you a ride. I'll let you insult me.

Peyton

First of all, you don't know me. Second of all, you don't know me. God, why are guys such jerks?!

Lucas

[to Peyton, after winning the match against Nathan] I'll be seeing you.

Lucas

[closing voice-over] There is a tide in the affairs of men... Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune... But omitted, and the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and miseries... On such a full sea are we now afloat... ...And we must take the current when it serves... ...Or lose the ventures before us.