Dawson's Creek, Season 6

Eddie:
So what you're saying is that you want to do everything.

Joey:
Yes! Yes. Well, everything within reason.

Eddie:
Within reason?

Joey:
Well, yeah, I mean, we should be somewhat practical about this.

Eddie:
You want to be practical about running away together?

Joey:
Well, Eddie, I mean, running away together isn't as easy as it looks on TV. I mean, believe me. I've done it before. And we're gonna get back in the fall. We're gonna be starting school. We're gonna be completely broke.

Eddie:
So?

Joey:
So that thought doesn't terrify you?

Eddie:
No, not more than the thought of not spending the summer with you. Or not seeing your face the first time you see the Eiffel tower, or the London bridge, or the plaza San Marco in Venice. You know, it's not like either of us have any money now. I mean, we're broke. So what? We start over. Rebuild things from scratch.

Joey:
With you in California and me here?

Eddie:
And a whole lifetime's worth of memories. Things that'll never leave us no matter how broke we get.

Joey:
Eddie... all I'm saying is that... running away together, no matter how romantic and magical it all seems at the time, it doesn't solve anything, ok? So whatever it is that you're running away from, whether it be circumstances or geography, you know, fate, another person, it's always gonna be there when you get back.

Eddie:
Ok, so what would you suggest to solve these problems, Joey? I mean, what do you want to do? Just ignore the opportunities that come our way?

Joey:
No! I'm just--I'm trying to be practical.

Eddie:
Which means what, exactly?

Joey:
Maybe we should just wait. You know, scale back a little.

Eddie:
Scale back?

Joey:
Yeah. Maybe work for a month or two and then go.

Eddie:
Joey, we're gonna spend the rest of our lives working.

Joey:
Yeah, and we have the entire summer to take this trip. Nobody said we have to go tomorrow.

Eddie:
I do.

Joey:
What?

Eddie:
You don't-- you don't even really want to do this, do you?

Joey:
Of course I want to do this.

Eddie:
Yeah, but only on your terms.

Joey:
Well, whose terms am I supposed to be doing this on, Eddie? I mean, if I'm gonna throw my life entirely off course for the chance-

Eddie:
Oh, my god. What are you talking about? Throwing it off course? I'm not asking you to throw your life off course, Joey. I'm talking about a summer here. All I'm asking is that you take a leap. Come away with me.

Joey:
Oh, like Saul Bellow or on the road? Eddie, those are just stories--poems. Little pieces of unreality that we're not meant to base our lives on. Eventually we always have to come back and deal with the real world.

Eddie:
So what? What are you gonna do? You just wanna sit here for your entire life waiting and hoping for the world to come to you? Because the point of those stories, Joey, is that people's lives-- their real lives-- only begin when they step out into the world. And when you do that, when you meet it head on, maybe you change the world, maybe you don't, but the point is, is that it changes you. And that is what people mean when they talk about growing up.

Joey:
So what? If I want to be with you, I'm supposed to just throw all of my previous life experience out the window? I'm supposed to just stop being who I am?

Eddie:
Who you are, Joey, is not some scared little girl who's afraid to take a chances on anything, who's afraid to really love someone because of the risk or the pain. That does not define you as a person. Or maybe it does, you know? Maybe--maybe I'm crazy. Maybe you've just blinded me.

Joey:
Are you done? You should probably find somewhere else to sleep tonight.