- Lilly Leery: What's a soul mate?
- Dawson: It's uh... Well, it's like a best friend, but more. It's the one person in the world that knows you better than anyone else. It's someone who makes you a better person. Actually, they don't make you a better person, you do that yourself because they inspire you. A soul mate is someone who you carry with you forever. It's the one person who knew you and accepted you and believed in you before anyone else did or when no one else would. And no matter what happens, you'll always love her. Nothing can ever change that. Make sense?
- Joey: What's going on in that head of yours?
- Pacey: You're off the hook.
- Joey: What?
- Pacey: You're off the hook. I've never had much faith in that whole "if you love someone, set them free" crap, as evidenced by everything I've done in my life up until this very moment, but I am determined to be happy, Joey, happy in this life. And I love you. I have always, always loved you, but our timing has just never been right. And the way I figure it, time is no man's friend. Well, I have to get right with that and be happy now. Because this is it, this is all we got. If there's one thing that I've learned from losing Jen, that's what I've learned.
- Joey: Pace, I...
- Pacey: Actually, hold on, I'm not done yet, because I also want for you to be happy. So 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 that you want for yourself. I want you to be with someone who makes you feel the way I feel when I'm with you. So, I guess the point of this long run-on sentence that's been the last 10 years of our lives is that the simple act of being in love with you is enough for me. So you're off the hook.
- Joey: You know what, for the record, I don't want to be let off the hook. Because everything I have done has led me here, right now, and the last thing I want is to be let off somebody's hook.
- Pacey: Don't miss my point here...
- 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 soul mate. He's tied to my childhood, and it's a love that is 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.
- Jen: Hi, Amy, it's mom. Well, by the time you see this, I won't be here anymore, and I know how much that sucks, for both of us. So seeing as how I won't be around to thoroughly annoy you, I thought I would give you a little list of the things that I wish for you. Well, there's the obvious. An education. Family. Friends. And a life that is full of the unexpected. Be sure to make mistakes. Make a lot of them, because there's no better way to learn and to grow, all right? And, um, I want you to spend a lot of time at the ocean, because the ocean forces you to dream, and I insist that you, my girl, be a dreamer. God. I've never really believed in God. In fact, I've spent a lot of time and energy trying to disprove that god exists. But I hope that you are able to believe in god, because the thing that I've come to realize, sweetheart... is that it just doesn't matter if god exists or not. The important thing is for you to believe in something, because I promise you that that belief will keep you warm at night, and I want you to feel safe always. And then there's love. I want you to love to the tips of your fingers, and when you find that love, wherever you find it, whoever you choose, don't run away from it. But you don't have to chase after it either. You just be patient, and it'll come to you, I promise, and when you least expect it, like you, like spending the best year of my life with the sweetest and the smartest and the most beautiful baby girl in the world. You don't be afraid, sweetheart. And remember, to love is to live.
- Pacey: I'm just saying thank you. You reminded me of what I'm capable of feeling. It's like I was... walking around seeing my life through a smudged window, and then I saw you and the smudges were gone. The window was clean
- [Jen and Jack's final scene]
- Jack: Jen I want her. I want her. I don't know what you and Grams have discussed.
- Jen: Grams is aware of her own situation, her health and all. We both think that you would make an excellent father. Now Jack, please help Amy to find a place to be. I feel like I never really quite fit in.
- Jack: Which is why we're us.
- Jen: I know. I mean from the second that I stepped out of that cab onto the creek I was the instigator, you know, the girl who caused problems and rocked the creek and upset the delicate emotional balance of Capeside and I don't want Amy to be that person. I want her to belong, I feel like I never really did.
- Jack: Jen. You belong... you belong to me. Don't you get it? You're my soulmate. Amy's gonna know love, everyday of her life she is gonna know how much her mother loved her. I'm gonna see to that. Ok?
- Joey: There's so much, Dawson. Both good times and bad. When I loved you, you loved Jen. When you loved me, I needed to be my on my own. So I left you for Jack. I didn't realize he was gay.
- Dawson: And then I convinced you to turn your dad in for trafficking cocaine. You said you'd never speak to me again.
- Joey: But I did. I offered myself to you at that party after you crashed your dad's boat.
- Dawson: And I refused for some reason. So you feel for Pacey.
- Joey: While you were losing your virginity to Jen.
- Dawson: And then finally, we slept together.
- Joey: Only to get into a fight the day after, thus ruining everything we've waited so long for.
- Dawson: And then I dated an actress, you dated that Eddie guy.
- Joey: And years passed, until finally, here we are.
- Doug Witter: [Doug walks up to Jack, who is sitting on the beach with baby Amy asleep in a carriage next to him] Gram said you were here. Just thinking?
- Jack: Capeside's favorite pastime.
- Doug Witter: What about?
- Jack: Moving.
- Doug Witter: Moving? Where?
- Jack: I don't know. Boston. New York.
- Doug Witter: Why?
- Jack: Amy.
- Doug Witter: Jack, you can't do that.
- Jack: Yes I can. How many gay parents do you know in Capeside?
- Doug Witter: So? How many gay teachers were there, before you came back? How many gay sheriffs are there, for that matter?
- Jack: Last time I checked, none. I'm tired of being first, Doug. Half my life has been about reeducating this community, and what do I have to show for it?
- Doug Witter: You think there are prizes for inspiring people?
- Jack: I don't want to inspire people any more. All I want to do is give Amy a normal existence, and she's not going to get that here. She's gonna have the same childhood that I did, only instead of being the only gay kid, she's gonna be the only kid with a gay parent. I don't want that.
- Doug Witter: You're going to be a gay parent no matter where you are. And yeah-Amy is going to face rejection. That's what it means to be a teenager.
- Jack: I just want to be a good parent. I have to be.
- Doug Witter: Hey. Jack. Being a good parent means knowing that your child is bound to fall down. And you just have to show 'em how to get back up.
- Jack: What do you know about parenting?
- Doug Witter: Not much. Hoping to learn quickly.
- Jack: It's a sweet gesture, but no thank you.
- Doug Witter: It's not a gesture.
- Jack: Yes, it is. With everything that we've been through, I'll be damned if we're gonna get back together over your sense of... obligation, or worse, pity.
- Doug Witter: Screw pity. I love you. I love you, Jack. I love that you're the bravest person I know... and the kindest. I love that no matter what you do, your life is gonna stand out. I want to stand out with you... and your daughter.
- [sighs]
- Doug Witter: If you'll let me.
- [They kiss, and an elderly couple walks by]
- Jack: Uh, it's the Dudleys. Right there.
- Doug Witter: Evening, Mr. and Mrs. Dudley. I was just, uh, kissing my boyfriend.
- Dawson: Life has no opposite.
- Joey: I never thought of it that way.
- Dawson: Well, leave it to me to overthink it.
- Joey: You are the writer.
- Dawson: This writer has decided it doesn't matter how it ends. Because fiction is fiction. For the first time in a long time, my life is real. It doesn't matter who ends up with who. In some unearthly way, it's always gonna be you and me.
- Joey: It's always.
- Dawson: What we have goes beyond friendship, beyond lovers. It's forever.
- Joey: Yes it is. I love you, Dawson.
- Dawson: I love you too, Joey.
- Lilly Leery: [Scene: cut in, showing Alexander climbing a ladder and Lily standing at a window in the Leery house. Reminiscent of Joey and Dawson's childhood] Come on Alexander, only a few more steps, you can do it!
- Joey: You and me always.
- Dawson: Always.