Quotes from The Bostonians


Prof. Wilder: So, Miss Potter, I've got some good news and I've got some bad news. The good news is class is over, today's torture has come to an end.
Joey: Bad news?
Prof. Wilder: You are obviously a writer, which means the torture has just begun.

Prof. Wilder: The problem with your story, Joey Potter, is that it ends at the very moment it should begin.

Guard: Do you know where you're going, Mr. Dawson Leery?
Dawson: Absolutely no idea.

Jack: You didn't think that guy was hot?
Jen: Sure, in a "dumb guy with a dream" kind of way.

Prof. Wilder: I don't even know what the kiss meant.
Joey: It was just a kiss.
Prof. Wilder: Well, that doesn't mean anything to me. Make a choice. What was it? Was it sweet? Was it friendly? Was it passionate? Was it "I want to lay you down on the nearest flat surface and do ungodly things to you" or was it goodbye?

Audrey: Have you ever had an orgasm?
Joey: Not something I particularly like to discuss with a near stranger?
Audrey: Me? A near stranger? I am your roommate, Joey. As such I reserve the right to raise such topics as oral sex, feminine hygiene and orgasms.

Audrey: Jen is my new best friend and Jack will herefore be known as Joey's very cute guy friend.
Jen: No, no, he's Joey's very cute gay friend.
Audrey: No, really?
Jack: I'm gay.
Audrey: And there's nothing we can do about this?
Jack: Look, I have been kissed by two of the finest female specimens this world has to offer. If they didn't do it....
Audrey: Both of you girls kissed this boy? That is just so unfair.

Joey: Dawson, I think it's time that I let you go. And it's really hard for me to do because I know that there's a part of me that's going to be in love with you for the rest of my life.

Jen: If there are cookies in these cupboards, I will devote my life to God's teachings.
Grams: Music to my ears, Jennifer.


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