How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
"I'm in love." I roll my eyes, because he falls in love every hour on the hour with some poor new boy. They all look the same: skinny and sweaty and tan, the last an abomination, because all February tans in Chicago are fake, and boys who fake tan—I don't care whether they're gay— are ridiculous.
"You're so cynical," Tiny says, waving his hand at me.
"I'm not cynical, Tiny," I answer. "I'm practical."
"You're a robot," he says. Tiny thinks that I am incapable of what humans call emotion because I have not cried since my seventh birthday, when I saw the movie All Dogs Go to Heaven. I suppose I should have known from the title that it wouldn't end merrily, but in my defense, I was seven. Anyway, I haven't cried since then. I don't really understand the point of crying. Also, I feel that crying is almost—like, aside from deaths of relatives or whatever—totally avoidable if you follow two very simple rules: 1. Don't care too much. 2. Shut up. Everything unfortunate that has ever happened to me has stemmed from failure to follow one of the rules.
"I know love is real because I feel it," Tiny says. (1.8-12)
Two friends, two views of love. While Tiny throws himself headfirst into every relationship, Will guards himself against any heartbreak at all. Of course, that means that Tiny winds up weeping a whole lot and Will never gets to date anyone. Neither of their thoughts on love is really swaying us.
Quote #2
And Tiny is saying, "If you can't trust your gut then what can you trust?" And I say, "You can trust that caring, as a rule, ends poorly," which is true. Caring doesn't sometimes lead to misery. It always does.
"My heart is broken," Tiny says, as if the thing has never happened before to him, as if it has never happened before to anyone. And maybe that's the problem: maybe each new breakup feels so radically new to Tiny that, in some way, it hasn't happened before. (1.77-78)
Poor Tiny—another lover, another heartbreak. Will reiterates his cynical advice on love: It's better to never love at all than love and lose someone. Hmm… we're not so sure about that one, Will.
Quote #3
later that night i get an email from him.
i feel like my life is so scattered right now. like it's all these small pieces of paper and someone's turned on the fan. but talking to you makes me feel like the fan's been turned off for a little bit. like things could actually make sense. you completely unscatter me, and i appreciate that so much. GOD I AM SO IN LOVE. (2.75-77)
This is pretty adorable. will has spent a lot of time pushing people away and making fun of things, but here he has to admit how much Isaac's love and caring has melted his heart.