The O.C. (TV Series)

The Dream Lover (2007)

Ben McKenzie: Ryan Atwood

Quotes 

• Taylor Townsend : Why couldn't you just have had faith in us?

  Ryan Atwood : I don't know. I guess maybe I thought we were too different.

  Taylor Townsend : Maybe you were right.

  Ryan Atwood : No, no, I wasn't. And I realize now that how we feel is much more important than what we have to talk about.

  Taylor Townsend : [expectantly]  And how do you feel?

  Ryan Atwood : [cannot bring himself to say those three words]  I...

  [she waits in vain] 

  Ryan Atwood : I...

  Taylor Townsend : That stuffed animal you bought me is much more expressive, Ryan. Henri-Michel is reading a poem that he wrote for me at the bookstore tonight. It's a love poem, Ryan, and It's long.

  [she turns and leaves, eyes moist as he is left behind wavering]