Freewill Madness Quotes

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Quote #1

You know these things now, just as everybody seems to know them now. You could make it better, if only a little better, but you still don't. Why not? Why don't you want it better? (626)

One of the hardest parts of depression is knowing it's going on, but having a hard time accepting the things that can help it stop.

Quote #2

Well, unfortunately you are a victim of your own success. You don't hardly exist. (670)

By isolating himself, Will thinks he has been successful at making himself invisible. He totally isn't invisible, though, and Pops and Gran and Angela all see him.

Quote #3

"So I thought maybe you were, I don't know, killing yourself over that. That may have been a joke. You have no idea." (671)

Angela is the first person that we know of who is able to joke about death, or the threat of suicide. This puts Will at ease somehow—perhaps because he feels filled with darkness and she doesn't seem afraid of it.