How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
i totally don't get this—is there anything more boring and pathetic than setting the table when there are only two of you? i mean, with place mats and salad forks and everything. who is she kidding? i would give anything not to have to spend the next twenty minutes sitting across from her, because she doesn't believe in letting silence go. no, she has to fill it up with talk. i want to tell her that's what the voices in your head are for, to get you through all the silent parts. but she doesn't want to be with her thoughts unless she's saying them out loud. (2.62)
Poor Mrs. Grayson. She's obviously trying really hard to connect with her son, but he is just not having it. He'd rather be alone than open up to his own mom. Bummer.
Quote #5
In this moment, I could beat the holy living s*** out of Tiny Cooper. And I would, I swear to God, except I'm too busy trying to disappear.
I'm sitting here thinking, God, I swear I will take a vow of silence and move to a monastery and worship you for all my days if you just this once provide me with an invisibility cloak, come on come on, please please invisibility cloak now now now. It's very possible that Jane is thinking the same thing, but I have no idea, because she's not talking either, and I can't look at her on account of how I'm blinded by embarrassment. (3.52-53)
Another mortifying moment brought to you by Tiny Cooper. Will is so embarrassed by Tiny's meddling in his love life that he literally wishes he could disappear. Talk about being alone and isolated. Someone get this kid an invisibility cloak, stat.
Quote #6
early on, isaac let me know that he always finds pauses awkward—if too much time went by without me responding, he'd think i was typing something else in another window, or had left the computer, or was IMing twelve other boys besides him. and i had to admit that i felt the same fears. so now we do this thing whenever we're pausing. we just type
grayscale: i'm here
boundbydad: i'm here
grayscale: i'm here
boundbydad: i'm here (4.67-68)
Well this is sweet. Isaac and will let each other know they're not alone just by typing a little bit. See? No one really wants to be totally apart from other people.