Peyton: Buds over studs.Brooke: Hoes over bros.
Read more Peyton Sawyer QuotesFrom: One Tree Hill
Haley James: You know that romantic notion that all the garbage and the pain is really healing and beautiful and sort of poetic? It's not. It's just garbage and it's pain. You know what's better? Love. The day that you start thinking that love is overrated is the day that you're wrong. The only thing wrong with love and faith and belief is not having it.Nathan Scott: The darkness doesn't have any answers, Luke.
Peyton: What are we doing? You know, you've been here three weeks, Ellie, and all we've talked about is music and the CD and business. But it's not just a business arrangement, is it?Ellie: Of course not.Peyton: I need you to talk to me about your cancer.Ellie: It's okay.Peyton: No. No, it's not okay. How can you just act like nothing's wrong? Aren't you afraid? Because I am afraid for you.Ellie: Don't be afraid, Peyton. 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?Peyton: It doesn't mean I can't want it to not end.Ellie: Look at you. You've had more life-changing events in the first 17 years of your life than I'd wish on anyone. You got the surviving part down. I want you to focus more on the living.Peyton: Sometimes surviving is about all the living I can handle.Ellie: I don't buy that for one second. And if you keep this up, hiding in your art and your sadness, you're really gonna miss out. Because the truth is: there is nothing to be afraid of. It's just life.
George Eliot once wrote:''There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.''