Joey: No.
Audrey: You love academia because of the rulse. And you hate relationships because of the lack of them. So, do you want to see him or not?
Joey: Yes. No.Yes...but only if he wants to see me and it's obviously he doesn't.
Audrey: God, you are so dense. Of course he wants to see you.
Joey: What makes you say that?
Audrey: Because you are beautiful and you don't know it. Because you're smart and you don't believe it. Because you're the kind of girl guys never get over. Joey, you're the kind of girl other girls get compared to.
Gale: I'm not dismissing the beautiful ideal of soulmates, but the reality of eternal coupling, quite frankly, boils down to one thing. Faith. Ask yourself this question: Is Joey the kind of person you are willing to take a very big lead of faith for?
Joey: I don't know. It's like...did you ever meet someone who just saw you, really saw you but somehow saw only the best?
Dawson: You mean someone besides you?
Pacey: She said:"He was my Dawson." My own personal kryptonite.
Joey: Pacey, I had a Dawson. Do you see me with him today? No. Just because Audrey loved this guy before you, it doesn't automatically mean she's gonna get over him. He's part of her past.
Pacey: If we've learned anything from history Jo, it's that "Dawson" is not a past tense kind of noun. "Dawson" tends to mean past, present, and future for all you ladies out there. What I'm looking for is a lady with no soulmate to speak of.
Pacey: You, Josephine Potter have just wrecked me in the best way possible.
Jen: I don't know-its just that I never felt like i really belonged.
Jack: Don't you get it? You do belong. You belong to me. You're my soulmate.
Dawson: It's just...I'm starting to forget why.
Joey: Why what?
Dawson: Why we're not together.
Dawson: Don't worry. That wasn't a question. You know, for the longest time, I was waiting to love someone like I loved you. But somewhere along the way I realized: that's not gonna happen. And it's okay. You were my first love, when I was a romantic kid. But you gotta grow up sometime.
JOEY: I don't think I'll ever love anyone the way I loved you, either. And that's a good and a bad thing.
Dawson: How do you explain the things you love? You can't-you just do.
Joey: My journal is where I go to trash the world. So, what I write is merely a reflection of how I feel on that particular day. I save the truth for you Dawson.
Dawson: Joey, I'm glad I don't know everything about you, because every day you amaze me.
Dawson: No matter where you go or where life takes you....
Joey: You'll always have a piece of my heart.
Joey: My best friend in the whole world is leaving tomorrow and a big part of me wants him to stay.
Joey: First we're friends, then we're a couple, then we're friends again, then we're a couple. So...So what are we now?
Dawson: We're Dawson and Joey.
Joey: That's where he got it all wrong; the eternal triangle that's based on actual events? It was never about Sam making a decision between Colby and Petey. It's about Sam making a decision for herself.
Jen: Can we just use their real names here? There's no need to protect the guilty in this room.
Joey: It's just sad that it took a tv show for me to see it.
Jen: See what? I'm terribly interested in all of this.
Joey: The only decision left is the one I have to make with myself. Stop running, once and for all. I know who I'm supposed to be with. I've always known.
Pacey: When I was afraid of everything else, I was never afraid to love you.
Pacey: "I think I need to go live life on my own for a little while. But that certainly doesn't mean this is how I want it to end between us. So, hypothetically speaking... If I were lucky enough to own a sailboat again, and I asked the woman I love to go sailing with me, would she?"
Joey: "You wouldn't have to ask, Pace."
Pacey: You're off the hook. I've never believed in that "if you love someone let them go" nonsense, as evidenced by everything I've ever done in my life up until this very moment, but I'm determined to be happy, Joey. Happy in this life. And I love you.. I have always, always loved you, but our timing has never been right. And time is no man's friend, so I have to get right with that and be happy, now. Cuz this is it. This is all we get... I also want you to be happy. Really work for me to be happy. I want you to be with someone, whether it be Dawson or New York guy or some man you haven't even met yet, but I want you to be with someone who can be a part of the life you wnat for yourself, and I want you to be with someone who can make you feel the way I feel when I'm with you. So the point to this long run-on sentence that's been the last ten years of our lives is just that the simple act of being in love with you is enough for me. So you're off the hook.
Joey: You know, for the record, I don't want to be let off the hook. Everything I've done in my life has led me here, right now, and the last thing I want, need or deserve is to be let off somebody's hook-
Pacey: Please don't miss my point-
Joey: And don't miss mine. Pacey.. I love you. You know that. And it's very real. It's so real that it's kept me moving- mostly running- from it, never ready for it. And I love Dawson. He's my soulmate, he's tied to my childhood. It's a love that's pure and eternally innocent. I can't be let off the hook because I just might get the notion that it's ok to keep running.
Dawson: So, Joey Potter sticking around Capeside for some guy.
Joey: Yeah, if you're lucky, maybe I'll introduce you.
Dawson: Oh, well he's a very lucky guy."