Some think One Tree Hill is just another cliche TV drama where one girl steals another girl's boyfriend and the star football player gets all the ladies. However, One Tree Hill is not just another cliche drama for many reasons. First of all, One Tree Hill isn't centered around a jock football player, it is centered on two half- brothers, Lucas and Nathan Scott, who begin as basketball rivals but slowly come together. Secondly, there are not two jealous girls fighting over the same guy. Instead, there is the popular, not so nice girl, Brooke Davis, and quiet, music-lover girl, Peyton Sawyer who both drastically change throughout the show and become true friends to one another.
The characters in this show face real-life challenges that teens really do face nowadays. The show consists of family situations focused around divorce and single-parent homes. They encounter deaths of friends who die too young or take their own life due to being bullied. These characters learn the hard way that people do not stick around forever, people do leave and they do not always return. Every character experiences painful heartbreaks and must deal with it in their own way.
These characters learn a broken heart is not the end of the world, it is not easy, but there are other fish in the sea. Each heartbreak and relationship a character faces is unique and different. Below are 10 of the most powerful and real quotes the characters have said while facing a tough time.
Peyton Sawyer once said...
"At this moment there are 6,470,818,671 people in the world. Some are running scared. Some are coming home. Some tell lies to make it through the day. Others are just now facing the truth. Some are evil men, at war with good. And some are good, struggling with evil. Six billion people in the world. Six billion souls. And sometimes — all you need is one."
"It's giving your heart to someone, that's the scary part."
Haley James Scott once said...
“I don't think you ever realize how much you love something until you have to give it up.”
"The heart wants what it wants."
Lucas Scott once said...
“Sometimes, it’s easy to feel like you’re the only one in the world who’s struggling, who’s frustrated, or unsatisfied, or barely getting by. That feeling is a lie. And if you just hold on, just find the courage to face it all for another day, someone or something will find you and make it all okay, because we all need a little help sometimes, someone to help us hear the music in the world, to remind us that it won’t always be this way. That someone is out there, and that someone will find you.”
“There comes a time when every life goes off course. In this desperate moment, you must choose your direction. Will you fight to stay on the path, while others tell you who you are? Or will you label yourself? Will you be honored by your choice? Or will you embrace your new path? Each morning, you choose to move forward, or to simply give up.”
Brooke Davis once said...
"But it never seemed like you missed me. And I guess because of it, I stopped missing you."
"I wanted you to fight for me! I wanted you to say that there was no one else that you could ever be with and that you'd rather be alone than without me."
Nathan Scott once said...
"You ever heard the expression ‘The best things in life are free.’ Well, that expression is true.’ Every once in a while, people step up they rise above themselves sometimes they surprise you and sometimes they fall short. Life is funny sometimes. It can push pretty hard but if you look close enough, you can find hope in the words of children, in the bars of the song and in the eyes of someone you love. And if you’re lucky, if you’re the luckiest person on this entire planet, the person you love decides to love you back."
"I realize now that when your heart breaks, you got to fight like hell to make sure your still alive. Because you are. And that pain you feel? That's life. The confusion and fear? That's there to remind you, that somewhere out there is something better, and that something is worth fighting for."
