Quotes from The Graduate


Principal Peskin: I can assure you that security will be tighter than Ricky Martin's pants.

Pacey: You want to know what the truth is, Joe? I still love you, and I probably will love you for a very long time. But I can't just be your buddy... because as much as I enjoy the concept of being just friends, in reality it's a bizarre form of torture and I'm just not willing to participate in it.

Joey: Nothing seems easy anymore.

Grams: I'm not just a naive old softy, dear, I recognize Drue for the duplicitous smooth-talking butt-kisser he is.

Mr. Kasdan: Did you study for that final you so dramatically walked out on?
Pacey: I can categorically say that I studied my ass off, sir.
Mr. Kasdan: Care to prove it?

Drue: All we have to do it reset the timer so the sprinklers come on during graduation, soaking the crowd, and therefore transforming a rather ho-hum ceremony into a glorious liquid wonderland.

Pacey: I think I should probably go off and live my own life for a little while, but that certainly doesn't mean that this is how I want it to end between us. So, hypothetically speaking, if I were lucky enough one day to find myself owning a sail boat again, and I were to ask the woman I love to go sailing with em, would she?
Joey: You wouldn't have to ask, Pace.

Bessie: I don't want to be nosey or anything, but...
Joey: If I told you now, we'd both start crying, but to summarize, she was right.
Bessie: What's that?
Joey: You did a great job taking care of me.
Bessie: Joey, you're sweet, but really, it's not fair. You deserved a mom.
Joey: Bessie, I got two.
Bessie: And you said you didn't want us to start crying.
Joey: I love you.
Bessie: I love you.

Mitch: Look there, Lily, that'll be you one day soon.
Gale: What? The happy graduate or the proud mother?
Mitch: Well, why not both?
Dawson: Though preferably not at the same time.

Joey: Your parents are so cute, they look like little emotional train wrecks.


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