How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
It's when I turn on the bathroom light and wipe the fog off the mirror to comb my hair. It's what I see in the mirror. It's what I don't see. (1.3)
When this happens in a movie, it usually means that someone is a ghost, but in Bobby's case, it just means that he's become invisible. That's not any more rational than ghosts, but at least it means that he's still alive.
Quote #2
Leaving my house, riding the bus, walking through the library—when I did all that I was wearing a full set of clothes. And my eyes told my brain that everything was normal… Now I'm lost in space again, like the first trip down to the kitchen at breakfast in the morning. (3.14-15)
As you navigate the world, the image of your own body becomes a kind of anchor. After he becomes invisible, Bobby has the hardest time trying to figure out where he is in relation to the world.
Quote #3
You know how Hemingway writes? He couldn't write about this girl's face. Because he'd say something like, "It was a pretty face." And that wouldn't be enough. This face needs someone like Dickens, or maybe Tolstoy. Someone who'd take a whole page and spend some time on her eyebrows and her cheeks, or maybe notice the shape of her mouth when she's concentrating on walking with her cane. (4.4)
Calm down, Romeo. Bobby starts waxing poetic as soon as he meets Alicia. There's something about her appearance that just stops him in his tracks and makes him think of poetry.