If you know me, you know my history with Dawson's.  For YEARS (3, in fact) I protested.  "That's middle school TV!" I told everyone.  Well, Natalie and Nathalie always watched in our room last year.  When the Dawson - Joey - Pacey triangle started, I got a little interested.  But if I missed an episode, it was ok.  This year, I'm hooked.  I have not missed one minute of one episode yet.  That's more than I can say for Friends (3 missed episodes), Boston Public (Didn't start watching til Winter), ER (Missed the last 10 minutes of the wedding one) and GH (Miss it almost every day!)  Does that tell you something?  I thought so.  Anyway, These quotes show you how true Dawson's is to life.  Most of the quotes have to do with things that happened in my past, so it's not like I'm swooning over it now - but it just makes sense.  And obviously it isn't just my life that Dawson's is playing out for us.  It is the lives of everyone I know. :)  Y'all know that I'm pro Dawson - Joey (forget Pacey!) but Pacey does a lot of clarifying for me.  Now, onto the info!  (And keep your fingers crossed that they decide to make Baltimore the new filming location next year as they search for the perfect "Boston!" :) 

Generic Info:

-A couple years ago, Jen was all messed up.  Then she worked so hard to be at least semi-normal.  The tall, dark, and sinister Drue showed up to remind her why she ran away from NYC to begin with.  Drue gives her drugs, which Andi takes instead.

-Joey and Dawson were best friends their whole lives, then dated for a few months and then had to spend years building that friendship again.  I think it's finally happening though!

-Joey starts dating Pacey and they fight way too often about the same silly things and then they wind up having sex on the school trip and then she thinks she's pregnant but she's not but she never mentions it to Pacey becuase he dumps her

-The only really cute guy is gay and does more kissing than anyone else at Prom

-Andi is smart enough to skip the 2nd semester of her senior year and go to foreign lands

-Dawson steals an old guy's boat, befriends him, and then the guy dies in typical TV fashion.  Old guy leaves Dawson money which he gives to Joey since she can't afford college.

-Nobody really has parents except Dawson

-Pacey's parents decide that a good birthday fun time would be to point out everything that Pacey has done wrong in life.

And now for the quotes...

"New York is finishing school for cynics like us." - Jen 

"You think something's making your life a living hell, then it's gone and you miss it." - Jen 

"You're drunk, you're bordering on disorderly, and you're defiantly insane." - Pacey to Joey 

"Here's to responsible sexual gratification! Cheers!" - Jen 

"People are almost as happy as they make up their minds to be." - Painted on Dawson's wall

"Do you know what the most bogus line in Hollywood is? 'There's no place like home.' Why? Because home is a gray dusty place where a lady is trying to kill your dog. Of course, Oz has it's own problems. But between them you meet all kinds of people and realize you're just who you always wanted to be." - Gretchen 

"He's the dark prince of revisionist history." - Jen referring to Drue

"We could pull a Bonnie and Clyde" "Rob and bank and run off?" "Yep! It's the solution to our two biggest problems. Money and boredom!" - Pacey and Joey

"In the end you always go back to the people who were there in the beginning." - Andi

"You always tease the ones you love" - Pacey

"And you always have to deal with the ones you used to love." - Joey

"Is that the girl who used to tell me everything?" - Jack
"Is that the boy who stopped listening?" - Jen

"You gave me the strength to do the things I needed to do but was too afraid to do." - Andi

"You're coming off a traumatic, life altering relationship. The last thing you need is to get emotionally involved again. But being the virile, increasingly buff teenage male that you are, you possess certain wants and desires. Enter Eve. A gift from the Gods on Rebound High. A curvy vixen you're meant to explore in a purely sexual way. A femme fatale whose entire genetic make-up screams: "Objectify Me!" I'm telling you Dawson, the next time you find her, don't let her out of your sight." - Pacey to Dawson

Dawson: I think for the longest time, I was just waiting to find someone I loved as much as I loved you. Now I realize that's not gonna happen.
Joey: I don't think I'll love anyone like I loved you either. That's a good and a bad thing.

Pacey: I've been feeing really angry, but not at myself, at Joey. And I don't know WHY I'm angry at Joey and that makes me feel guilty. And the guiltier I feel, the angrier I get and I still don't know what to do about it.

Pacey: When I saw the two of you dancing together, I realized that's the happiest I've seen you all night. That's the happiest I've seen you in weeks. Wanna know what's worse than that? I don't care. I'm not angry, I'm not jealous, I'm not upset, I'm not anything. You wanted me to take off the happy mask, well the mask is off. So answer my question Joe, cause is this is what I've been wanting to ask you. Why are you with me? Why are you with me? Cuase I don't know why I'm with you. I used to, but I don't anymore.
Joey: I'll take note of that.
Pacey: I don't know Joey, I feel like I'm Josephine Potter's little charity project. I feel like I'm the designated loser.
Joey: This isn't about me, Pacey!
Pacey: It IS about you and how you make me feel when I'm with you! I feel stupid and worthless and I'm never right. And I realized that's NOT MY FAULT!

Pacey: When I'm with you, it's poor Pacey didn't get into college, it's stupid Pacey forgot the limo, ripped the dress, messed up the corsage.
Joey: I told you - I don't care about any of that!
Pacey: I want you to care! I WANT YOU TO CARE! I don't want you to accept it like that's the way it's supposed to be. We are not trapped on this boat, you and I are trapped in this relationship. I can't take it anymore, Joey! When I'm with you I feel like I'm nothing! I feel like I'm nothing. That's why I flinch when you go to touch me. It's why I never touch you. Why I never even THINK about it. Cause when I start to, it just reminds me that I'm not good enough.
Joey: Are you done?
Pacey: Done? I'm just getting started.
Joey: You can stop right now. Go to Hell.

Pacey: Last year, I felt like I could give you something nobody else could. I could give you that wall, a summer on a boat. I don't feel like I have anything left to give you. I guess I'm spent.

Pacey: I've become a man who hates himself so much he can't even look at his own reflection in the mirror. I wish I could tell you that being with you doesn't make it worse, but it does. The more you love me in spite of that, the angrier I get and the more I stop loving you back.
Joey: How long have you felt this way?
Pacey: I don't know. But I know it's not right and I know that my failures and my shortcomings don't have anything to do with you. But I also know if we stay together, I'm going to continue to take them out on you.
Joey: I've got news for you, Pacey. How you treat me is actually totally in your power.
Pacey: You know, our senior year is over now, and you and I are two very different people on two very different paths. This summer, there is no boat and there is no sunset. You deserve better.
Joey: You break my heart into a thousand pieces and you say it's because I deserve better?

Joey: Dawson! These movies aren't real. They're not kissing with their tongues. It's Take 22, the girl's bored, the guy's gay. It's celluloid propaganda.

Doug: Just because I'm pretty, doesn't mean I'm gay. I happen to be the straightest guy I know.

Pacey: She has gaydar!

Dawson: It's beyond that. See I believe that all of the mysteries of the Universe, all of life's questions, can be found in a Spielberg movie. It's a theory I've been working on. See, whenever I have a problem all I have to do is look to the right Spielberg film and the answers revealed. 

Pacey: Look, it is a fact that a large percentage of older women are attracted to young boys on the verge of manhood. It keeps them feeling young. I read that in Cosmopolitan.
Dawson: What are you doing reading Cosmopolitan?
Pacey: Look, I have three menstrually diverse sisters, Cosmo is my savior. 

Jen: Ah, you know I am trying really hard to keep my rebellious nature in check. I'll tell you what Grams. I'll go to church when you say the word penis.
Grams: You stop that talk!
Jen: It's just a word Grams. Clinical and technical. Penis.

Dawson: Usually in the morning with Katie Couric.

MITCH: So I took it out and I put some on my lips and then I leaned over and kissed her. The chapstick was really smooth. It slid onto her lips, the sensation was amazing. The chemistry was already there, you know but it was just one of those things that cemented it, you know. It was unforgettable and most importantly, romantic.
Dawson: And here, I thought you were all about sex.
MITCH: Oh, we still jumped each other. But you got to have romance. It's all about romance. And chapstick.