How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
I lean forward and kiss him. The flowers crush between our shirts. I touch his lips, I breathe him in. I close my eyes, I open them. He is surprised, I can tell. I'm surprised too. He kisses me back with a kiss like a smile. (10.10)
Quote #8
"He was my first boyfriend, and I made him my everything—he was my new life, my new love, my new compass point. I guess that's the danger with firsts—you lose all sense of proportion." (10.72)
Three of the four main characters in Boy Meets Boy—Paul, Noah, and Joni—are dealing with the fallout of first love. Ted and Kyle are dealing with it too, moping around on the sidelines, while Chuck's hurting Ted's first love (Joni) to get back at his first love (Infinite Darlene) for rejecting him. If the circumstances surrounding Tony's lack of a first love (and by circumstances we mean homophobic parents) weren't so awful, we might think he was lucky to be spared the drama.
Quote #9
"I don't know what the word is for what I was to you. I didn't break up with you the right way. Something inside me flipped and I… I couldn't stand you. It wasn't your fault. But I couldn't stand you. I needed to… I needed to obliterate you. Not you personally. But the thought of you. Your presence." (12.18)
Back to that different-sides-of-the-same-coin thing. What is it that makes love turn into disgust, indifference, or even hate, seemingly overnight, and often without warning?