“Everyone says the next thing I do, the next choice I make, is going to define me. My career. My life. Well the next thing I want to do is ask you to be my wife. And tell you how much I love you. And how nothing else matters. I look into your eyes, Brooke, and I see the rest of my life. And I see it with you. Marry me, Brooke Davis.”

— Julian Baker

Apr 4 2012 36 notes

“Dear Lucas, I know I could call you or email you or Skype you or whatever but it feels right about putting pen to paper for us. It seems these days I have so many thoughts in my head that if I don’t get them out I might explode. Anyway I wanted you to know that Tree Hill misses you. The River Court misses you. And I miss you.”

— Haley James Scott

Nov 5 2011 39 notes

“Someday when he is older and he thinks back on his best days as a kid, he will think of this day, the day he was happy and safe and loved. That’s a hell of a gift Nate.”

— Clay

May 22 2011 11 notes

“Years from now when we look back on this moment, we’re not gonna remember the trouble with your company or the bad press, or even your mom being in jail, we’re just gonna remember how great our wedding was.”

— Julian

Mar 6 2011 10 notes

“When the silence gets too loud, and I really start to miss everyone, I tell myself the same thing: I can’t see you, but I know you’re there.”

— Haley

Dec 19 2010 61 notes

“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.”

— Lucas

Dec 4 2010 35 notes

“I guess I should have said something, anything. I mean for a guy who wants to be a writer, it suddenly seemed like no words had ever been written. When someone tells you that they somehow stopped missing you, you’re pretty much screwed no matter what you say. See, but there had to be something right? Something that no one had ever said in the history of the world, something that could change this. That wasn’t it.”

— Lucas Scott

Oct 26 2010 18 notes

“Suddenly, it was as if roar of the crowd, the echo of the final buzzer, the cheers of my teammates were all sounding from a thousand miles away. And what remained in that bizzare muffled silence was only peyton, the girl whose art and passion and beauty had changed my life. In that moment, my triumph was not a state championship, but simple clarity, the realization that we had always been meant for each other, and every instinct to the contrary had simply been a denial of the following truth. I was now and would always be in love with Peyton Sawyer.”

— Lucas.

Oct 9 2010 25 notes

“We’re all crazy Hales, some of us just hide it better than others.”

— Nathan.

Sep 18 2010 20 notes

“And the little prince said to the man, ‘Grownups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always explaining things to them.’”

— Lucas.

Aug 27 2010 11 notes

“I read a poem once about a girl who had a crush on a guy who died. She imagined him up in heaven with all the beautiful angels, and she was jealous. Ellie is gone, I imagine her with the bad ass angels now. Hanging out with them in their black leather jackets, causing trouble. But, I’m not jealous, I just miss her.”

— Peyton.

Aug 16 2010 4 notes

“Dan Scott is many things: the mayor of Tree Hill, the once great high school basketball player and Nathan’s father. He’s also my father, but he never claimed me. Believe it or not, I got the better end of the deal. I was instead raised by my mom with the help of my Uncle Keith, until Keith’s life was taken.”

— Lucas Scott

Jul 25 2010 4 notes

“The things that take 14 minutes: boiling an ostrich egg, Michael Jackson’s Thriller video, it also takes 14 minutes to get from the Melina Bridge to Tree Hill Hospital. In those 14 minutes, three lives hung in the balance. For the rest of us there was nothing to do but wait. I guess that’s why they call it the waiting room.”

May 16 2010 1 note

S2E22

And Hansel said to Gretel, ‘Let us drop these breadcrumbs… so that together we find our way home. Because losing our way would be the most cruel of things.’ This year.. I lost my way. Lucas

And losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey… is a fate more cruel. Nathan

The journey lasted eight months. Sometimes I traveled alone, sometimes, there were others who took the wheel — and took my heart. But when the destination was reached, it wasn’t me who arrived…it wasn’t me at all. Peyton

And once you lose yourself, you have two choices: find the person you used to be… or lose that person completely. Brooke

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. Mouth

May 8 2010 3 notes

“You know it’s been said that we just don’t recognize the significant moments of our lives while they’re 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 realized how much you need it, how much you love it. God, I love this game.”

— Nathan.

May 1 2010 12 notes