- [last lines]
- Landon: [voiceover] Jamie saved my life. She taught me everything. About life, hope and the long journey ahead. I'll always miss her. But our love is like the wind. I can't see it, but I can feel it.
- Landon: Hey. How are you feeling?
- Jamie: I'm ok, how are you?
- Landon: Pretty good.
- Jamie: I have something for you.
- Landon: You do?
- Jamie: Uh hmm... Don't worry it's not a bible. It was my mother's. It's got quotes from all her favorite books, and quotes by famous people. Her thoughts. Come on.
- Landon: Okay, let's check it out. Okay..."What is a friend? It's a single soul dwelling in two bodies." -Aristotle.
- Jamie: Uh uh, right here.
- Landon: Okay. "Find out who you are, and do it on purpose." That's Dolly Parton.
- Jamie: I always thought she was smart.
- Landon: "Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful."
- Jamie: I'm sick.
- Landon: I'll take you home. You'll be be...
- Jamie: No. Landon! I'm sick. I have Leukemia.
- Landon: No. You're 18. You - you're perfect.
- Jamie: No. I found out two years ago and I've stopped responding to treatments.
- Landon: So why didn't you tell me?
- Jamie: The doctor said I should go on and live life normally as best I could. I - I didn't want anybody to be weird around me.
- Landon: Including me?
- Jamie: Especially you!
- [Jamie looks down]
- Jamie: [Landon gets upset]
- Jamie: Ya know, I was getting along with everything fine. I accepted it, and then you happened! I do not need a reason to be angry with God.
- [Jamie runs away]
- Jamie: You don't know the first thing about being someone's friend.
- Landon: I don't want to just be your friend.
- Jamie: You don't know what you want.
- Landon: Neither do you. Maybe you're just too scared that someone might actually want to be with you.
- Jamie: And why would that scare me?
- Landon: Because then you wouldn't be able to hide behind your books, or your frickin' telescope, or your faith. No, no, you know the real reason why you're scared? It's cause you wanna be with me too.
- Reverend Sullivan: "Do not be deceived. God is not mocked." Hmmm.
- [Landon walks into the Church as Reverend Sullivan is practicing his sermon]
- Reverend Sullivan: "Whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap..." Can I help you?
- Landon: Uh, yes, sir. I'd like to ask your daughter to dinner on Saturday night.
- Reverend Sullivan: That's not possible.
- Landon: Well... with all due respect, sir, I ask you to reconsider.
- Reverend Sullivan: With all due respect, Mr. Carter, I made my decision. You can, uh, exit the way you entered.
- Landon: Listen, I'm sorry I haven't treated Jamie the way I should've. She deserves more than that. I'm just asking you for the same thing that you teach us every day in Church. And that's faith.
- Reverend Sullivan: [Exhales deeply]
- [at the hospital]
- Reverend Sullivan: Do you remember when you were about five or six and you said you hated gravity? And you wanted to jump off the roof and fly?
- Jamie: I was so angry at you for making me come down.
- Reverend Sullivan: Honey, if I kept you too close it's because I wanted to keep you longer. You know, when I lost your mother, I was afraid that my heart would never open again. Jamie, I couldn't look at you for days.
- Jamie: [after she and Landon keep switching the radio station] Forty-two.
- Landon: "Forty-two", what do you-what do you mean "forty-two"?
- Jamie: Forty-two is "Befriend somebody I don't like". It's a to-do list I have.
- Landon: What, like getting a new personality?
- Jamie: Spend a year in the Peace Corps, make a medical discovery...
- Landon: That's ambitious.
- Jamie: ...Be in two places at once, get a tattoo.
- Landon: What's number one?
- Jamie: I'd tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.
- Jamie: Please don't pretend like you know me, ok?
- Landon: But I do, I do. We've had all the same classes in the same school since kindergarten. Why you're Jamie Sullivan. You sit at lunch table 7. Which isn't exactly the reject table, but is definitely in self exile territory. You have exactly one sweater. You like to look at your feet when you walk. Oh, oh, and yeah, for fun, you like to tutor on weekends and hang out with the cool kids from "Stars and Planets." Now how does that sound?
- Jamie: Thoroughly predictable, nothing I haven't heard before.
- Landon: You don't care what people think about you?
- Jamie: No.
- Eric: It's all good cause were gonna get club Landon and Club Eric jumping up in here. Oh, what do we got here ?
- [Landon turns the CD player on]
- Eric: Whoa, okay, okay, so your not really feeling my hip-hop, but what the hell is this?
- Landon: Jamie lent it to me.
- Eric: Now she's got you listening to her people music?
- Landon: Okay... her people?
- Eric: Yeah. Her... uh, bible-hugging, crucifix-wearing, honk-if-you-love-Jesus-people.
- Landon: She's not like that.
- Jamie: [Speaking to someone else] This is a star frame and it will help you locate stars and planets with your naked eye. Mercury and Jupiter can be seen just over the west south west of the horizon after sunset.
- Dean: Bet you can see angels up there flying around.
- Jamie: In fact, there are some things that they call miraculous. Einstein said the more he studied the universe, the more he believed in a higher power.
- Dean: Well, if there is a higher power, then why is it he can't get you a new sweater?
- [His friends laugh]
- Jamie: He's too busy looking for your brain.
- Eric: Ohhhhh, dayaaaaam!
- [laughing]
- Clay Gephardt: You know what? I actually thought I wanted to be your friend. And now I have no idea why. No idea.
- Landon: I made that jump once. Thought I was a bad ass. I remember actually saying that I meant to belly-flop.
- Clay Gephardt: Did it hurt?
- Landon: Like hell.
- Clay Gephardt: Good.
- Landon: Listen, Jamie, I was hoping we could run lines together?
- Jamie: Okay, but just not so anybody knows, right?
- Landon: Well I just figured we could surprise everyone with how good I get.
- Jamie: Like we could be secret friends.
- Landon: Exactly, exactly it's like you're reading my mind.
- Jamie: Great umm... maybe you could read mine.
- [she gives him a cold glare and turns away]
- Landon: Jamie, Jamie I can't just be your friend.
- Jamie: Landon, look, I thought I saw something in you, something good, but I was very wrong.
- Landon: That is one scary
- [turns around and sees Jamie's father]
- Landon: Jesus!
- Reverend Sullivan: No, Jamie's father.
- Jamie: What do you want Carter? I've known you for years and you've never been the first one to come up and say "hello."
- Eric: Well, you know you got Belinda thinking that little lip action between you and Jamie was real.
- [landon looks nervous while he still works]
- Eric: Whats with you, man? It's like you don't even have time for your real friends anymore.
- Landon: I dont know man, I'm just tired of doing the same old shit everyday.
- Eric: This girl is changing you and you don't even know it.
- Landon: Hah. Did Belinda say that too?
- Eric: No, I did.
- Reverend Sullivan: Love is always patient and kind; it is never jealous; love is never boastful or conceited; it is never rude or selfish; it does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people's shortcomings but delights in the truth; it is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes.
- [Apostle Paul; 1 Corinthians 13:4-7]
- Eric: Hey man, tell them maybe do, like, West Side Story, you know, get that nice big booty lookin' girl from Selena, ya know, "Maria, Maria!"