One Tree Hill Season 1 Voiceover Quotes

Episode 1: Pilot

Lucas: “There is a tide in the affairs of men. Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. But omitted, and the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and miseries... On such a full sea are we now afloat... ...And we must take the current when it serves... ...Or lose the ventures before us.”

Episode 2: The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most

Lucas: “Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swaps of the not quite, the not yet, and the not at all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists. It is real. It is possible. It is yours.”

Episode 3: Are You True?

Lucas: “E.E. Cummings once wrote, "To be nobody but yourself, in a world which is doing its best, day and night, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle, which any human being can fight and never stop fighting”

Episode 5: All That You Can't Leave Behind

Lucas: “John Steinbeck once wrote “It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.”

Episode 6: Every Night Is Another Story

Lucas: “As happens sometimes a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment. And then the moment was gone.”

Episode 9: With Arms Outstretched

Lucas: “What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gages and dials and registers. And we can read only a few. And those perhaps not accurately”

Episode 11: The Living Years

Lucas: “And the little prince said to the man ‘Grownups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always explaining things to them’ ”

Episode 22: The Games That Play All

Lucas: “Some people believe that Ravens guide travelers to their destinations. Others believe that the sight of a solitary raven is considered good luck. While more than one raven together, predicts trouble ahead.”

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