How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
Mom is looking at the door too, leaning forward as I start to leave. "And Bobby?"
"Yeah?"
"Thanks for coming."
"Sure thing, Mom. Bye." (6.75-78)
So what if Bobby and his mom don't get along all the time? At the end of the day, they still love and need each other, and that's what matters. He'll even sneak into a hospital naked to see her when she's injured. That's real love.
Quote #2
I'd like to go help her out of the cab, but I can't, so the driver holds her arm and helps her up the front steps. I don't like seeing her move so stiffly, like an old person. I open the door for her, and when it's shut, we hug. And I'm actually glad to see her. (13.1)
When the person you love is in pain, you feel like you're in pain, too. Bobby wants to help his mom out more than anything, but he can't, and that makes him feel helpless.
Quote #3
Dad continues. "They'd take you to a hospital or a research facility, and God knows how we'd ever get you back. And I'm not going to let them break up our family." (16.49)
Even though Bobby's dad may seem to care more about science than emotions sometimes, he is still fiercely protective of his family and refuses to let anyone touch his son. He loves him too much to let him go.
Quote #4
Looking at their faces, I know I'm not going to let them get arrested and dragged off to jail. That's not going to happen, no matter what. Not to my mom and dad. (16.52)
Bobby's parents may be willing to go to jail in order to keep him safe, but Bobby's just as willing to go to a research facility in order to keep them safe. It's like they're all living out some kind of O. Henry short story.
Quote #5
"… Like your mom and dad? They would go to the jail just to keep you safe. You have people who care about you and want to protect you."
"People like you?" That stops her.
"… Well… yeah." (17.34-36)
Alicia is always sarcastic and abrasive, but at the end of the day, she really does care about Bobby. In fact, she has come to love him enough to break into a major corporation's headquarters with him. If that's not proof of love, we don't know what is.
Quote #6
Silence. Then she says, "What if you don't come back? Like something happens to you?" I like the way she says that, the tone of her voice. But I keep being the warrior. (19.59)
Aw, isn't it cute how Alicia gets all worried about Bobby even though she's typically kind of brusque and sarcastic with him? Underneath that hard exterior, she really does care about him.
Quote #7
As I get ready for bed, and then turn off the lights and pull up the feather quilt, I'm not thinking about my electric blanket and how much I miss it. I'm not thinking about Sheila Borden, or about her dad—call number fifty-nine.
I'm thinking about call number sixty, my call to Alicia. (22.123-124)
Bobby's got some odd priorities: Instead of thinking about how there might be another invisible person out there, he falls asleep thinking about chatting with Alicia on the phone. That's what young love does to you.
Quote #8
Mom won't let go of my hand. We're downstairs on the couch in the living room, and she keeps reaching over to push my hair up off my forehead. My hair's a lot longer than it was a month ago. And she keeps tilting her head and smiling this goofy smile at me. I feel like her eyes are devouring my face. (27.33)
If Bobby ever had any doubts about his parents' love for him, this experience should completely banish them. It's obvious that his mom and dad would do anything for him, and that he's the most important thing in their lives.
Quote #9
You almost kissed me today. I felt you. So close. But it would have killed me. Because I don't know if you can see that. I can't see us. I can see us, but I still need to see me. And I feel like you see me. Do you? You do. You almost kissed me. So close. With you it's not kid stuff. (28.105)
Alicia didn't slam the door in Bobby's face because she was mad at him; she did it to protect her own emotions. Her feelings for him are so strong that she's scared of falling in deeper.
Quote #10
People talk about crying from happiness, and it sounds stupid – crying from happiness. I never knew what it meant. It's not really happiness that makes the tears. It's everything at once, everything that's good and sad and wonderful all at once, except the things that are wonderful mean so much more than the sad news. Crying from happiness, right there, sitting in front of the computer, reading Alicia's e-mail. (28.118)
Whoa, cue the waterworks. Bobby doesn't cry tears of happiness when he finds that he's not invisible anymore, but he does start weeping when he realizes that Alicia is in love with him. Why, you ask? Well, it's because he's in love with her, too.