The O.C. quotes

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Ryan: How do you keep doing that?
Taylor: Doing what?
Ryan: That. You keep telling me what I'm thinking before I feel it.
Taylor: Because I think about you, Ryan. I want you to be happy. And I think if you give it a chance, you might feel something, too.
Ryan: Taylor...
Taylor: [makes a face] Are you going to tell me you really like me as a friend?
Ryan: ...Maybe.
[Taylor gasps, turns and leaves.]
Ryan: [awestruck] How does she do that?

Ryan: I don't play golf.
Seth: Not true, buddy! You just don't play well.

Ryan: I guess you don't remember me saying 'small'.
Seth: I did, I chose to ignore it.

Ryan: I keep imagining her on roller skates and with a big bucket of soapy water.
Seth: Dude, that is so pedestrian. A sudsy girl? Your fantasies are so... average.
Ryan: Doesn't mean it's not hot.
Seth: I guess they call them classics for a reason.

Ryan: I promise I'll keep my hands to myself.
Lindsay: Well, it's your elbow I'm worried about.

Ryan: I think when the cops showed up and went to put the cuffs on Marissa he [Trey] did what he had to do to stop them.
Seth: What makes you say that?
Ryan: I was about to do the same thing.
Seth: Yeah, sure. The compulsive need to rescue Marissa Cooper must be in the Atwood DNA.
Ryan: That would explain a lot.

Ryan: I used to want to be an architect.
Kirsten: And what do you want to be now?
Ryan: Seventeen.
Kirsten: Me, too.

Ryan: I'm gonna brood. Silently. Over here.

Ryan: I'm not too popular around here. And your boyfriend? A little angry.
Marissa: Oh, and you're telling me you didn't try to hit him back?
Ryan: Actually, I hit him first.
Marissa: Well, hard to believe you're not more popular.

Ryan: Is that Grady? He's kind of like you.
Seth: What? Handsome and charming?
Ryan: No. Geeky and sarcastic.

Ryan: It's been months and I'm still the kid from Chino that burned a house down.
Marissa: And I'm still the girl who tried to kill herself in Mexico.
Seth: And I'm still the... I'm still Seth Cohen.
Luke: Oh, this is gonna suck.
Seth: Yep. Welcome to my world.

Ryan: It's kind of a shady neighborhood. It's pretty hardcore up there.
Seth: Dude, it's Long Beach, not Chechnya.

Ryan: Live in the now, Seth.
Seth: I'm sorry. I'm afraid I can't do that.

Ryan: Maybe you've got the Summer flu.
Seth: I dunno. It's possible.
Ryan: Maybe you need some Annabiotics.

Ryan: Met your ex-husband last night. He was at the bookstore, doing a reading.
Taylor: Wait, you met Henri-Michel? How did you know it was him?
Ryan: Dirty hair? Scarf? Smells like brie?
Taylor: That's Henri-Michel.