one tree hill quotes

People think that if you love somebody hard enough then everything is just gonna work out. People are wrong.

I wanted you to fight for me! I wanted you to say there is no one else that you could ever be with and that you would rather be alone than without me.

Part of me just wants to find the right words to hurt you. The same way you hurt me.

The bad guys lie to get in your bed and the good guys lie to get in your heart.

Most of our life is a series of images, they pass us by like towns on the highway. But sometimes a moment stuns us as it happens, and we know that this instant is more than a fleeting image. We know that this moment, every part of it, will live on forever.

I forgot you’re the guy who loves to rip the rug out from under me just when I feel like we’re given some sort of stable ground.

I like the fact that somebody like you sees something in me.

We all can use a little hope sometimes, you know. That feeling that everything is gonna be okay and that there’s gonna be someone there to help make sure of that.

Regret comes in all shapes and sizes. Some are small, like when we do a bad thing for a good reason. Some are bigger like when we let down a friend. Some of us escape the pains of regret by making the right choice. Some of us have little time for regret because were looking forward to the future. Sometimes we have to fight to come to terms with the past, and sometimes we bury our regret by promising to change our ways. But our biggest regrets are not for the things we did but for the things we didn’t do, things we didn’t say that could have saved someone we care about. Especially when we can see the dark storm that’s headed their way.

Derek: You can’t live in fear. Life is about taking risks, not being afraid to go after what you want.
Peyton : I’m just not sure if this is the right time.
Derek : It never is. That’s why it’s called a risk

When I fell to the floor tonight, I was so scared, I was so terrified. Then I saw you, and I promised myself that if I could just get up, I’d walk over to you… I’d tell you how much I need you and how much I want you… and how nothing else matters.

I gave you my heart and that’s all I can give you, and if that’s not enough, then I’m not enough.

Anna: why do relationships have to be so hard?
Peyton: cause the only thing harder is being alone

Most people don’t know who they are, that’s why they lie. They’re afraid someone else will figure it out before they do.

Remember when I told you what girls want? Girls just want someone to want them back- at least I do.

Brooke: Haley still loves you. All you have to do is take her back.
Nathan: Right. Kind of like with you and Lucas? You see! It’s not so easy getting back in the ring. Ecspecially with the one who knocked you out in the first place.

I was afraid of getting my heart broken again, like before. ‘Cause you hurt me so bad, and I was afraid to be vulnerable. And I was afraid of you and the way that you make me feel. And I know that doesn’t matter now after what I did, but I just thought that you should know. This was how I spent my summer, wanting you… I’m just too scared to admit it.

Here’s my philosophy on dating. It’s important to have somebody that can make you laugh, somebody you can trust, somebody that, you know, turns you on… And it’s really, really important that these three people don’t know each other.

Lucas: I never meant to hurt you.
Brooke: That doesn’t really matter, ’cause in the end it all hurts just the same.

So you want me to tell you something about myself? I don’t have anything to say. Even if I did you’d be wrong to believe me. Trust is a lie. Nobody ever knows anyone.

Guy: Buy you a drink?
Brooke: Okay, guy in need of a clue. Here’s one. Women send signals. That was a brush off. Before you dip into your shallow pool of wit let me paint us a picture and save us both the trouble. Here’s your evening. You are going to slink back off to your buddies, laugh this off, get wasted, go home, and make nice with yourself. But don’t be thinking of me, because even your fantasy of me, isn’t interested in you

Stepping up. It’s a simple concept. It basically means to rise above yourself; to do a little more, to show you something special. Life’s funny sometimes; it can push pretty hard like when you fall in love with someone but they forget to love you back like when your best friend and your boyfriend leave you alone, like when you pull the trigger or light the flame and you can’t take it back. Like I said, in sports they call this ’stepping up’. In life, I call it pushing back.

Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always. A promise. Like a reward for persisting through life so long alone. A belief in each other and the possibility of love. A decision to ignore, simply rise above the pain of the past. A covenant, which at once binds two souls and yet severs prior ties. A celebration of the chance taken and the challenge that lies ahead. For two will always be stronger than one, like a team braced against the tempest civil world. And love will always be the guiding force in our lives. For tonight is mere formality. Only an announcement to the world of feelings long held. Promises made long ago. In the sacred spaces of our hearts.

I thought I knew you. But I guess it’s easier to see what we want than to look for the truth.

And Hansel said to Gretel: Let us drop these bread crumbs so that together we can find our way home because losing our way would be the most cruel of things. And once you lose yourself, you have two choices. Find the person you used to be or lose that person completely. Because sometimes you have to step outside of the person you’ve been and remember the person you were meant to be. The person you wanted to be. The person you are.

At this moment there are 6,470,818,671 people in the world. Some are running scared. Some are coming home. Some tell lies to make it through the day. Others are just now facing the truth. Some are evil men, at war with good. And some are good, struggling with evil. Six billion people in the world. Six billion souls. And sometimes — all you need is one.

Every song has a CODA, a final movement. Whether it fades out or crashes away. Every song ends. Is that any reason not to enjoy the music? The truth is, there is nothing to be afraid of. It’s just life.

Every once in a while people step up, they rise above themselves. Sometimes they surprise you, and sometimes they fall short. Life is funny sometimes, it can push pretty hard, but if you look close enough you find hope in the words of children, in the bars of a song and in the eyes of someone you love. And if you’re lucky, and if you’re the luckiest person on this entire planet, the person you love decides to love you back.

There are moments in our lives when we find ourselves at a crossroad, afraid, confused, without a roadmap. The choices we make in those moments can define the rest of our days. Of course when faced with the unknown, most of us prefer to turn around and go back. But once in a while, people push on to something better, something found just beyond the pain of going it alone, and just beyond the bravery and courage it takes to let someone in, or give someone a second chance, something beyond the quiet persistence of a dream. because it’s only when you’re tested, that you discover who you are, that you discover who you can be. The person you can be does exist, beyond the hard work, faith, belief, and beyond the heartache, and fear of what lies ahead.

You know it’s been said that we just don’t recognize the significant moments of our lives while they are happening. We grow complacent with ideas, or things or people and we take them for granted and it’s usually not until that thing is about to be taken away from you that you’ve realized how wrong you’ve been, that you’ve realized how much you need it, how much you love it.

Because it’s only when you’re tested that you truly discover who you are. And it’s only when you’re tested that you discover who you can be. The person that you want to be does exist, somewhere on the other side of hard work and faith, and belief and beyond the heartache and fear of what life has.

My name is Lucas Scott. I’m a senior at Tree Hill High School. I play basketball — at least I used to. I have a girlfriend — at least I used to. And I have a best friend. Tree Hill is just a place somewhere in the world. Maybe it’s a lot like your world, maybe it’s nothing like it. But if you look closer, you might see someone like you. Someone trying to find their way. Someone trying to find their place. Someone trying to find their self. Sometimes it seems like you are the only one in the world who’s struggling, who’s frustrated, or unsatisfied, or barely getting by. But that feeling’s a lie. And if you just hold on, just find the courage to face it all for another day, someone or something will find you and make it all okay. Because we all need a little help sometimes. Someone to help us hear the music in the world, to remind us that it won’t always be this way. That someone is out there. And that someone will find you.

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You ever look a picture of yourself, and see a stranger in the background?. It makes you wonder how many strangers have pictures of you. How many moments of other peoples life have we been in. Were we a part of someone’s life when their dream came true or were we there when their dream died. Did we keep trying to get in? As if we were somehow destined to be there or did the shot take us by surprise. Just think, you could be a big part of someone elses life, and not even know it.

When I’m around him I can’t breathe- and when I’m not around him… I want to be.

There comes a time when every life goes off course. In this desperate moment you must choose your direction. Will you fight to stay on the path while others tell you who you are? Or will you label yourself? Will you be honored by your choice? Or will you embrace your new path? Each morning you choose to move forward or to simply give up.

Shakespeare wrote: ‘Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.’ When life gets hard, when things change, true love remains the same.

Have you ever wondered what marks our time here? If one life can really make an impact on the world…or if the choices we make matter? I believe they do. And I believe that one man can change many lives. For better…or worse.

If you could go back and just change one thing about your life, would you? And if you did, would that change make your life better? Or would that change ultimately break your heart? Or break the heart of another? Would you choose an entirely different path? Or would you change just one thing? Just one moment. One moment that you’ve always wanted back.

Truth is still absolute. Believe that. Even when that truth is hard and cold, and more painful than you’ve ever imagined. And even when truth is more cruel than any lie.

Just so you know, the only thing I really want is to see him laugh again. You know, hear him sing off-key… watch him roll his eyes at me when I steal french fries off his plate. I guess what I’m trying to say is I’m crazy for him.

If you’re always looking for reasons not to be with somebody, then you’ll always find them. Sometimes you just need to let go and give your heart what it deserves.

Give me regret as long as I can keep the good memories too. We all have regrets, but some of us still have time to erase them.

Yes, losing your hearts desire is tragic but gaining your hearts desire? It’s all you can hope for, this year I wished for love… to immerse myself in someone else and to wake a heart long afraid to feel. My wish was granted and if having that is tragic then give me tragedy, because I wouldnt give it back for the world.

Lets play truth or dare. Or just dare because nobody ever really tells the truth anymore.

I need you to trust me and believe me when I tell you that my heart is with you. Part of me feels like ever since we got back together you’ve been waiting– waiting to push me away.

They give their hearts to each other unconditionally …that’s what true love really is. It’s not this fairy tale life that never knows pain, but it’s two souls facing it together and diminishing it with unconditional love.

You know I could’ve held you in my arms forever and it still wouldn’t have been long enough.

Have you ever had a dream that seemed so real, when you woke up you didn’t know what to believe? What would you do if what you thought was true, wasn’t? And what you thought wasn’t true, was? Would you retreat into your dreams with the hope of finding a more perfect reality? Sometimes life is strange in that dream. And the only way to wake up is to face what lies hidden in your self. And you can only hope that in those moments of dark reflection, that you are not alone.

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Did you feel it change? I mean how many moments in life can you point to & say
‘that’s when it all changed’?

Somebody tell me you’ve got love figured out, because I got news for you; it’s pretty darn messy right now. But I guess it’s always been that way. Wanting to be loved, to find somebody that makes your heart ache in a good way. feel understood. So. if you’re robots, or aliens, or something and you’re watching this right now and that feeling no longer exists; well,. you missed it. and I feel sorry for you. Cause as far as I can tell, that’s what it’s all about.

It happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment. And then the moment was gone.

Sometimes pain becomes such a huge part of your life that you expect it to always be there. Because you can’t remember a time in your life when it wasn’t, but then one day you feel something else. something that feels wrong, only because its so unfamiliar. then in that moment you realize you’re happy.

Even though I kinda knew we were a lie, it was like a pain reliever. I mean the pain was still there, but I didn’t feel it for awhile.

Peyton: I thought they were just rumors?
Anna: Well you know how high school is. Once the story gets out, it might as well be true.

You know that feeling you get on Sunday where you just had the whole day to yourself, and it’s been great, and then you remember that you have to go to school the next day, and it just ruins the rest of the night? I have to go home tomorrow and I’ve got that feeling, just like it’s Sunday night.

I’m tired of feeling bad. I’d rather feel nothing. It’s better, it’s easier

Have you ever woke up from a really good dream & just tried to go back to sleep? Or had the flu and you promise yourself that you’ll appreciate normal so much more if you could just get back to it? That’s the way I feel; I just want things to go back to the way they were.

People are gonna dissapoint you. I get that… I kind of expect that. But I dont know, what if you wake up one day and realize that you’re the dissapointment?

I am not pushing you away… I am holding on for dear life, but I need you to need me back.

What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gages and dials and registers, and we can only read a few, and those perhaps not accurately.

Tragedies happen. What are you gonna do, give up? Quit? No. I realize now that when your heart breaks, you got to fight like hell to make sure you’re still alive. Because you are. And that pain you feel? That’s life. The confusion and fear? That’s there to remind you that somewhere out there is something better, & that something is worth fighting for.

If having things turn out the way you want them to is a measure of a successful life then some would say I was a failure. The important thing is not to be bitter over life’s disappointments. Learn to let go of the past. And recognize that everyday won’t be silence and when you find yourself lost in the darkness and despair, remember it’s only in the black of night that you can see the stars and those stars lead you back home. So don’t be afraid to make mistakes, stumble, fall, cause most of the time the greatest rewards come from the things that scare you the most. Maybe you’ll get everything you wish for, maybe you’ll get more than you could ever imagine. Who knows where life will take you. The road is long and in the end the journey is the destination.

It wasn’t supposed to be this way. The artists, and the scientists, and the poets…none of them fit in at seventeen. You’re supposed to get past it. Adults, they see kids killing kids and they know its a tragedy because they used to be those kids. The bullies and the beaten and the loners. You’re supposed to get past it. You’re supposed to live long enough to take it back.

You know when I was a freshman, I wasn’t a very good person. I mean, sure, I was popular and dating seniors, but as a person, I was pretty lost. And over the last four years, I’ve been forced to grow up. I stopped letting boys define me, and I started believing in myself, and in my potential ,and I ran for student council president, and I designed a clothing line, and somewhere along the way, the lost little party girl became the girl on the wall of honor. And I know what I did was wrong, I know, but the girl I was when I came to this school, I’m not sure she would’ve. And isn’t that the point of high school? I mean, isn’t that what you guys have been trying to teach us for the past four years?

Just let me hold you for a couple more minutes. That’s what’s gonna fix me. 

You can choose to blame your circumstances on fate, or bad luck, or bad choices. Or you can fight back. Things aren’t always gonna be fair in the real world, that’s just the way it is. But for the most part, you get what you give. Let me ask you all a question, what’s worse- not getting everything you wished for, or getting it but finding it’s not enough? The rest of your life is being shaped right now, with the dreams you chase, the choices you make, and the person you decide to be. The rest of your life is a long time, and the rest of your life starts right now.

She’s the first thing I think about every day. How is she? Does she miss me like I miss her? How do I get her back? And then another day without her begins.

Well, your eyes are puffy. which, from experience, screams
textbook crying eyes. You have your hair up, you’re probably
not planning on impressing any boys today. I’d say you’re
nursing a hell of a broken heart. and not the school girl crush kind.
You’re dealing with the real thing.

The rest of your life is a long time, and whether you know it or not, it’s being shaped right now.

One of these days you’re gonna wake up and you’ll feel that same ache in your heart and you’ll realize how much I love you. Whenever that day is, I’ll still be waiting for you, and you’ll come home to me.

Sometimes it feels like it was yesterday, graduating high school, saying goodbye; that feeling that you get at 17 or 18- that nobody in the history of the world has ever been this close, has ever loved as fiercely or laughed as hard, or cared as much. Sometimes it feels like it was yesterday - and sometimes it feels like someone else’s memory.

You can find the good in anybody if you just give them a chance, benefit of the doubt. Sometimes people disappoint you, sometimes they surprise you, but you never really get to know them until you listen for what’s in their heart.

Just trust me, over time, not knowing is way worse than a “no”.

Do you ever wonder if we make the moments in our lives or if the moments in our lives make us? If you could go back and change one thing about your life, would you? And if you did, would that change make your life better? Or would that change ultimately break your heart? Or break the heart of another? Or would you choose an entirely different path? Or would you change just one thing, just one moment? One moment, that you’ve always wanted back.

Of course I miss you. It’s all I do.

It’s been said that the saddest thing a man will ever face is what might have been. But what of the man who’s faced with what was? Or what may never be? Or what can no longer be? Choosing the right path is never easy. It’s a decision we make with only our hearts to guide us. But sometimes, we find our way to something better. Sometimes we fight through the regret and remorse of our mistakes, our malice and our jealousy, and the shame we feel for not being the people we were meant to be. And that’s when we find our way to something better. Or when something better finds its way to us.

I don’t hate you. I remember the first time I ever saw you, all skinny arms and tangled mess of hair. It was hard letting you go Peyton. You know? It was hard losing you and it was hard seeing you again and it’s still really hard

There are many who couldn’t understand, and sometimes he walked among them. But even in his darkest hours, he knew in his heart that someday, they would return to him, and his world would be whole again.

Albert Camus once wrote, “Blessed are the hearts that can bend, for they shall never be broken.” But I wonder, if there’s no breaking, then there’s no healing. And if there’s no healing, then there’s no learning. And if there’s no learning, then there’s no struggle. But struggle is a part of life. So must all hearts be broken?

She’s struggling a bit, I guess that’s what happens when you fall in love.