- Haley James: Did you ever pick out your porn name?
- Lucas 'Luke' Scott: What are you talking about?
- Haley James: Your porn name. Um, you know. You take the name of your first pet and your mother's maiden name, you put them together. What was the name of your first pet?
- Lucas 'Luke' Scott: You know that. I had a dog named Rocket.
- Haley James: Oh, Rocket. I loved Rocket. So, your mother's maiden name is Roe. Rocket Roe. Nice.
- Lucas 'Luke' Scott: What's yours?
- Haley James: Oh, I had a bunny named Bunny.
- Lucas 'Luke' Scott: You named the bunny Bunny.
- Haley James: Yes, I did. And my mother's maiden name is Beaugard. So...
- Lucas 'Luke' Scott: Bunny Beaugard.
- Haley James: Bunny Beaugard. Dawson's Freaks, starring Rocket Roe and Bunny Beaugard.
- Lucas 'Luke' Scott: Nice.
- Haley James: Shut Up.
- Lucas 'Luke' Scott: [voice-over] Do not let your fire go out... spark by irreplaceable spark... in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish... in lonley frustration for the life you deserved... but never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists, it is real. It is possible. It is yours.
- [Ayn Rand]
- Coach Whitey Durham: There's no shame in being afraid. Hell, we're all afraid. What you gotta do is figure out what you're afraid of because when you put a face on it you can beat it. Better yet, you can use it.
- Peyton: [to Lucas] I want to draw something that means something to someone. You know, I want to draw blind faith, or a fading summer, or just a moment of clarity. It's like when you go and see a really great band, live for the first time and, you know, and nobody's saying it, but everybody's thinking it, we have something to believe in again. I want to draw that feeling, but I can't. And if I can't be great at it then I don't want to ruin it. It's too important to me.
- Lucas 'Luke' Scott: You ever wake up from a really good dream and try really hard to get back to sleep or you've got the flu and promise yourself you'll appreciate normal so much more if you could just get back to it.
- Haley James: Any side effects?
- Lucas 'Luke' Scott: From what?
- Haley James: Your amnesia.
- Lucas 'Luke' Scott: What are you talking about?
- Haley James: I'm talking about, you must have gotten amnesia because I know you would have mentioned that you got into a fight today. Are you okay Luke?
- Lucas 'Luke' Scott: Yeah. You ever wake up from a really good dream, and try to get back to sleep? Or you got the flu, and you promise yourself you will appreciate normal so much more, if you can just get back to it? That's the way I feel. I just want things to go back to the way they were.
- Haley James: With basketball?
- Lucas 'Luke' Scott: With everything.
- Jake Jagielski: Fear changes everything.
- [Gives Lucas the book "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand]
- Jake Jagielski: Just remember, don't let him take it.
- Lucas 'Luke' Scott: I didn't want to be like him and I was afraid that I'd become him if I played. In the gym, I felt like he had a piece of me. I never felt like that on the playground.
- Karen Roe: Well, I'd say he's taken enough from us. I took the night off to watch my son play again. The way that he used to when he loved the game more than anything
- Mr. Kelly: You know, early in his career, Hemingway was frustrated. He was a good writer who wanted to be great and eventually he discovered that less was more. Peyton. Describe Lucas using just one word.
- Peyton: Joke.
- Mr. Kelly: Okay, quiet, please. Thank you. Lucas, care to respond and describe Peyton?
- Lucas 'Luke' Scott: Lonely.
- Haley James: Did you ever pick out your porn name?
- Lucas 'Luke' Scott: What are you talking about?
- Haley James: Your porn name. Um, you know. You take the name of your first pet and your mother's maiden name, you put them together. What was the name of your first pet?
- Lucas 'Luke' Scott: You know that. I had a dog named Rocket.
- Haley James: Oh, Rocket. I loved Rocket. So, your mother's maiden name is Rowe. Rocket Rowe. Nice.
- Lucas 'Luke' Scott: What's yours?
- Haley James: Oh, I had a bunny named Bunny.
- Lucas 'Luke' Scott: You named the bunny Bunny.
- Haley James: Yes, I did. And my mother's maiden name is Beaugard. So...
- Lucas 'Luke' Scott: Bunny Beaugard.
- Haley James: Bunny Beaugard. Dawson's Freaks, starring Rocket Rowe and Bunny Beaugard.
- Lucas 'Luke' Scott: Nice.
- Haley James: Shut Up.
- Haley James: Did you ever figure out your porn name?
- Lucas: What are you talking about?
- Haley James: Your porn name. Uhm, you know, you take the name of your first pet and your mother's maiden name and you put them together... What was the name of your first pet?
- Lucas: You know, I have a dog named Rocket.
- Haley James: Oh, Rocket! I loved Rocket! So your mother's maiden name is Roe... Rocket Roe!
- [laughs]
- Haley James: Nice!
- Lucas: [laughs] What's yours?
- Haley James: Oh, I had a bunny named Bunny.
- Lucas: You named the bunny "Bunny"?
- Haley James: Yes, I did and my mother's maiden name is Beaugard so...
- Lucas: Bunny Beaugard?
- Haley James: Bunny Beaugard... Dawson's Creek starring Rocket Roe and Bunny Beaugard.
- [laughs]
- Haley James: [Lucas interrupts to say "Nice"]
- Haley James: Shut up!
- [laughs]
- Peyton: Those are my sketches!
- Lucas 'Luke' Scott: Uhm, I wasn't looking at them.
- Peyton: This is personal. Alright. I don't read your diary!
- Lucas 'Luke' Scott: I don't have a diary!
- Peyton: No. Dear Diary, my daddy doesn't love me. P.S. Stay out of my stuff!
- Peyton: I guess misery really does love company.
- Lucas 'Luke' Scott: What're you doing here?
- Peyton: Actually, I'm not here. I was never here.
- Lucas 'Luke' Scott: You know, I shoot the ball, and it goes in. I don't ask questions. I don't think about it. That's just the way it is.
- Peyton: Or the way it was.
- Lucas 'Luke' Scott: Yeah.
- Peyton: Look, it's just a game. Who cares if the entire school and most of your friends and, half the town saw you suck?
- Lucas 'Luke' Scott: So, you've clearly come to cheer me up.
- Peyton: Look, you mind if I ask you a question?
- Lucas 'Luke' Scott: Shoot.
- Peyton: Why'd you decide to do it? Join the team. Cause you don't exactly fit in here do you?
- Lucas 'Luke' Scott: The game I guess. I love the game.
- Peyton: Right. The same reason I cheer, it's all a big game. But why not just stay on the playground? Why join varsity?
- Lucas 'Luke' Scott: Because I want to know if I'm good.
- Peyton: But if you ask my opinion, we all just wasted a perfectly good evening. You, me, and everybody else in there.
- Lucas 'Luke' Scott: Then why do you do it? I mean, do you really like it or not?
- Peyton: If I say that I like it then I'm just another cheerleader. But, if I say that I hate it, then I'm either a liar or a fraud. Either way I lose. Do you want to come in?
- Lucas 'Luke' Scott: What about Nathan?
- Peyton: What about him?
- [Gets out of truck, Lucas gets out after her. At door, she turns and see him]
- Peyton: What are you doing?
- Lucas 'Luke' Scott: Um, you just said ...
- Peyton: I didn't invite you to come in. I just asked if you wanted to. Thanks for the ride.
- Nathan Scott: What do you know about it, Jagielski?
- Jake Jagielski: What do any of us know about anything?
- Coach Whitey Durham: You want to know something? I have had 35 winning seasons, but you know what keeps me up at night? The college jobs I never took. Could-have-beens have a way of doing that.
- Keith Scott: Karen. Ready to go?
- Karen Roe: Oh, I'm not going. I decided to stay open. I could use the business.
- Keith Scott: You talk to Luke about this?
- Karen Roe: No, but he'll understand.
- Keith Scott: Karen...
- Haley James: She doesn't want to go. She doesn't want to see her high school sweetheart slash your brother Dan slash the jerk who abandoned Lucas slash the father of Nathan, the team's star player slash my wrists if I hear this story again. Let's go.
- Keith Scott: I think you're making a mistake.
- Coach Whitey Durham: I'd stand up, but every time I do somebody kicks me in the ass for putting you on the team.
- Karen Roe: [Karen, Lucas, and Haley are sitting at a table in the cafe. Karen has just learned that Lucas and Nathan have fought in class, becuase Nathan described Lucas in one word... bastard] So, are you going to tell me about the fight, or are you going to assume that I know while I yell at you?
- Lucas 'Luke' Scott: Mom, listen...
- Karen Roe: No, when they called me from school today, I was sure they had the wrong Scott. Then they told me they had both Scotts, and I could take my pick. Honestly! Fighting in school, Lucas? Fighting at all? My God, Lucas, what were you thinking?
- Lucas 'Luke' Scott: But he was being a jerk, mom!
- Karen Roe: And this is something new? He hasn't been a jerk before?
- Lucas 'Luke' Scott: Yes, but...
- Karen Roe: Then, why sink down to his level?
- Lucas 'Luke' Scott: In the gym I felt like he had a piece of me, I never felt like that on the playground.
- Nathan Scott: Go ahead man prove me wrong.
- Lucas 'Luke' Scott: I don't have to prove anything to you.
- Lucas Scott: You know, I've never walked away from anything before, Haley?
- Haley James: I know.
- Lucas Scott: But I can't do it, and even worse, I don't know why I can't do it. You know, it's like, no matter how confusing or screwed up life got, you know, the game always made sense. It was mine, you know? And in a lot of ways it's who I am. But I can't be that person in their gym, or in their uniforms, or in their world.
- Haley James: I hear you, Luke. But I know you. And I know that no matter what happens you're still gonna be the same guy you always were. No uniform, no whatever is gonna ruin that, you know?