How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
"This is a great picture of you. This is what you look like," I tell her. And it's true. That's the problem: so many things are true. It's true that I want to smother her with compliments and true that I want to keep my distance. True that I want her to like me and true that I don't. The stupid, endless truth speaking out of both sides of its big, stupid mouth. It's what keeps me, stupidly, talking. "Like, you can't know what you look like, right? Whenever you see yourself in the mirror, you know you're looking at you, so you can't help but pose a little. So you never really know. But this—that's what you look like." (3.111)
Will is so on the fence about Jane, it's crazy. At least he admits the truth—he does like her—but he's afraid to go any further with it.
Quote #2
i figure this would be a bad time to point out that i've never actually said i wasn't gay. i just told her to f*** off. (4.32)
This is actually a pretty deft lie by will. He spends an entire conversation hiding the truth from Maura, but he doesn't lie to himself. He knows he's gay, he's just not ready for the truth to come out yet.
Quote #3
this is a game we play. most of the time we're not serious. like, there are different ways it could go. the first is we basically make fun of people who have IM sex by inventing our own ridiculous scornographic dialogue.
grayscale: i want you to lick my clavicle.
boundbydad: i am licking your clavicle.
grayscale: ooh my clavicle feels so good.
boundbydad: naughty, naughty clavicle.
grayscale: mmmmmm
boundbydad: wwwwwwww
grayscale: rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
boundbydad: ttttttttttttttttttttother times we go for the romance novel approach. corn porn.
boundbydad: thrust your fierce quavering manpole at me, stud
grayscale: your dastardly appendage engorges me with hellfire
boundbydad: my search party is creeping into your no man's land
grayscale: baste me like a thanksgiving turkey!!!and then there are nights like tonight, when the truth is what comes out, because it's what we need the most. or maybe just one of us needs it the most, but the other knows the right time to give it. (4.59-63)
Underneath all this snarkiness about sex and love is the truth: Isaac and will really need each other. They might pretend otherwise, but occasionally it just slips out.