Lucas Scott's Journal

Nathan: It’s the oldest story in the world. One day you’re seventeen and planning for someday and then quietly and without you ever really noticing, someday is today and then someday is yesterday and this is your life.

Brooke: If you had a friend you knew you’d never see again, what would you say? If you could do one last thing for someone you love, what would it be? Say it. Do it. Don’t wait. Nothing lasts forever.

Julian: It’s funny how our past frames us. How the person we used to be never lets loose of the person we are. Past failures and disappointments, even victories, takes hold of us. They haunt us like ghost or visit us like old friends.

Haley: Human beings are ambitious. We spend so much time wanting, perusing, wishing. For the most part, that’s ok. Ambition is good. Chasing things with integrity is good. Dreaming. As long as the chase does’t diminish what we already have. The goodness we take for granted. The people we take for granted. The lives we take for granted. My life is good.
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Marvin: Make a wish and place it in your heart. Anything you want. Everything you want.

Millicent: Do you have it? Good. Now believe it can come true.

Quinn: You never know where the next miracle is going to come from.

Clay: The next memory, the next smile, the next wish come true.

Chase: But if you believe that it’s right around the corner…

Chris Keller: You open your heart and mind to the possibility of it, to the certainty of it…

Skills: You just might get the thing you wish for.

Julian: The world is full of magic. You just have to believe in it.

Brooke: So make your wish. Do you have it?

Nathan: Good. Now believe in it.

Haley: With all your heart.

—One Tree Hill Cast (Season9, Ep.13-One Tree Hill)

There was a moment when I was lost, when they had beaten me and I decided to beg them to let me live. To see my beautiful wife, my son, my daughter to breathe another breathe and to lie in the sun and just live. But begging them wouldn’t change things. It would only give them satisfaction and that I wouldn’t do. No, this would be the job they cary with them for the rest of their lives. This would be the one they felt guilty about. That their older fading selves woke up regretting in the middle of the night trying to quiet their remorse before their own deaths were open them. So I made a decision. I would give them nothing and at that moment one word came to mind… fortitude.

—Nathan Scott (Season9, Ep.10-Hardcover Will Never Die But You Will)

They like it when I drive so I drive. It’s funny, I grew up in Tree Hill. I spent most of my life here but it wasn’t until my sons were born and couldn’t sleep that I really got to know this place. That used to be my view of Tree Hill at 2am. Well my partial view. Now this is my view. We drive the same streets we drove in high school and listen to the same music. At least when we can agree. Sometimes we try the 80’s, sometimes classic rock. Sunday Lane works for all of us. 2am, 3am, 4. We drive and we think and we fuss a bit. Sometimes we eat. Well I eat. Some people let it wear on them, the lack of sleep. I don’t mind it really. I like Tree Hill like this. I like my car like this. Warm, safe, loved. It’s what I wished for, mostly. Sometimes my heart aches at how my life turned out, in a good way. It doesn’t mean there haven’t been hardships. There have but I’m here and here is good.

—Brook Davis (Season9, Ep.1-Know This, We’ve Noticed)

Someday after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we will harness for God the energy’s of love and then for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
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People say hell is endless. It’s our worst nightmare, the face of our darkness but whatever it is, however it is, I say hell is empty and all the devils are here.

—Nathan Scott (Season9, Ep. 1-Know This, We’ve Noticed) 

Jamie: I was born and raised in a magic time, in a magic town, among magicians. Most everyone else didn’t realize we lived in a web of magic but i knew it all along. You know I do believe in magic.
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I was born and raised in a magic time, in a magic town, among magicians. Most everyone else didn’t realize we lived in that web of magic connected by the silver filaments of chance and circumstance but I knew all along. See this is my opinion. We all start out knowing magic. We were born with world winds, force fires and comets inside us. We were born able to sing to birds and read the clouds and see our destiny in grains of sand but then we get the magic educated right out of our souls. We get it churched out, spanked out and combed out. We get put on the straight and narrow and told to be responsible. Told to act our age and you know why we were told that? Because the people doing the telling were afraid of our wildness and youth and because the magic we knew made them ashamed and sad of what they’ve allowed to whither in themselves. After you go so far away from it you can’t really get it back. You can have seconds of it, just seconds of knowing and remembering.

Alex: When people get weepy at movies it’s because in that dark theatre the golden pool of magic is touched. Just briefly.

Mouth: Then they come out into the hard sun of logic and reason again and it dries up and they’re left feeling a little part sad and not knowing why.

Haley: When a song stirs a memory.

Quinn: When motes of dust turning in a shaft of light take your attention from the world.

Dan: When you listen to a train passing on a track at night in the distance and you wonder where it might be going.

Brooke: You step beyond who you are and where you are.

Jamie: For the briefest of an instance you have stepped into the magic realm. That’s what I believe.

—Jamie Scott (Season8, Ep.22-This Is My House, This Is My Home)

The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the Mudville nine that day. The score stood 4 to 2 with but one inning more to play. So upon that stricken multitude, grim melancholy sat. For there seemed but little chance for Casey getting to that bat.
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It knocked upon the mountain and recoiled upon the flat. For Casey, mighty Casey, was advancing to the bat. There was ease in Casey’s manner as he stepped to his place. There was pride in Casey’s bearing and a smile on Casey’s face. They saw his face go stern and cold. They saw his muscles strain and they knew that Casey wouldn’t let that ball go by again. The sneer is gone from Casey’s lips. His teeth are clenched in hate. He pounds with cruel violence his bat upon the plate. He signals to the pitcher and once more, the dun sphere flew. But Casey still ignored it and Casey said: Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shinning bright. That band is playing somewhere and somewhere hearts are light. And some men are laughing and somewhere children shout. Somewhere is right here because Casey might have struck out but Casey’s last name wasn’t Scott.

—Jamie Scott (Season8, Ep.20-The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul)

Jamie: 353,015 That’s how many babies will be born today. It seems weird to me that they weren’t here yesterday. That they didn’t have their parents and their parents didn’t have them. That this is their first day ever. 353,015 I think it’s cool how people celebrate the day you were born. Like for the rest of your life they have cake and presents and they celebrate that you’re here. There’s something really nice about that. Even when Aunt Quinn stuffs your face in a cake. There was a woman in texas who gave birth to eight babies. All at once, well actually, she gave birth to two and then a couple weeks later she had six more. I don’t really know how that works but it’s not something you forget. Once you hear about it you don’t forget. I just want my mom to have one and for both of them to be okay. I guess out of everyone who’s ever been born, probably the most famous birth is Jesus. But people make a big deal out of pandas too. I think people love babies because they see stuff like hopes and dreams in their eyes. They see the future and they see goodness and the chance they have to be better than us. So I think babies are pretty cool. Oh and baby rabbits are even cooler. Although I’m kinda glad chester is a boy and never had babies because I’m not sure I would be able to give them up. I’d be too worried that they’d be okay and that someone would love them as much as I would.

Haley: 353,015 That’s how many babies were born today and this one is mine. Every child comes with a message that God is not yet discouraged with us.

—Jamie Scott & Haley James Scott (Season8, Ep.18-Quiet Little Voices)

Dear Lucas,
I can’t believe it’s already Thanksgiving. Remember the time we shared the wish bone? You got the bigger side but you let me make the wish. That day I wished that we would always find the good in our lives. I’m pretty sure that can come true whenever we want it to. So I’m gonna make today about the good because there’s so much of it.

—Haley James Scott (Season8, Ep.9-Between Raising Hell and Amazing Grace)

Dear Lucas,
Well I have been volunteering at a crisis center for a couple weeks now. I’m struck by the number of people who are struggling in this world and as much as that saddens me, I’m also humbled by their strength and the courage they display in the face of their struggles.

—Haley James Scott (Season8, Ep.5-Nobody Taught Us To Quilt)

Dear Lucas,
Every time I write that it sounds so strange. How did our lives drift so far apart? And how without even trying, did we make our lives so complicated? I guess what I meant to say is it all seemed so much easier when we faced the future together.

—Haley James Scott (Season8, Ep.4-We All Fall Down)

Dear Lucas,
I feel so lucky that Quinn is getting better. It means I can breathe again. The darkness that I struggled with now seems a world away replaced by the concern I feel for her. I made a promise that if she was okay I would try to give back. I thought I might volunteer somewhere and try to help people who have struggled with depression or have faced a crisis of their own. She’s been recovering for about a week and the entire family was here but now they’re gone and it’s just me and Quinn. Everyday brings another small victory and with it the hope that Clay wakes up soon.

—Haley James Scott (Season8, Ep.3-The Space In Between)

Hi Luke,
Nathan left for camp today and the house is pretty quiet. Should be more time for me to write. Been feeling better lately but I still think about my mom a lot. Still feel her sometimes. Hear her voice, see her smile. The truth is, I miss her. I miss you and Peyton and Keith and Karen and Nathan while he’s gone. But it helps to have Quinn closer. Truth is, when it gets really quiet and the silence gets really loud and I start to miss everyone, I tell myself the same thing. I can’t see you but I know you’re there.

—Haley James Scott (Season8, Ep.2-I Can’t See You But I Know You’re There)

Dear Lucas,
I know that I can call you or email you or Skype you or whatever but there’s something about putting pen to paper that feels right 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. I wanted you to know that Tree Hill misses you. The river court misses you and I miss you.

—Haley James Scott (Season8, Ep.1-Asleep At Heaven’s Gate)

Someone once said that death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us why we still live. I could tell you who said it but who the hell really cares?

—Haley James Scott (Season7, Ep.21-What’s In the Ground Belongs To You) 

Who you are is who you are. We’re liars. We’re thieves. We’re addicts. We take our happiness for granted until we hurt ourselves or someone else. We hold grudges and when faced with our mistakes, we reinvent the past. We reinvent ourselves, at least we try. We’re prideful and we’re lustful and we’re incredibly flawed and eventually our flaws catch up to us.

—Dan Scott (Season7, Ep.10-You Are a Runner, And I Am My Father’s Son)