Quotes from book

Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“underneath all that denial, you're someone who's deeply, deeply nice.”

“You like someone who can’t like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.”

“i am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me. those seem to be the two choices. everything else is just killing time.”

“you’d think that silence would be peaceful. but really, it’s painful.”

“I don't want to fall. All I want to do is stand on solid ground.”

“When I was little, my dad used to tell me, "Will, you can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friend's nose."”

“he is both the source of my happiness and the one i want to share it with.”

“everyone in our school has afterschool activities. mine is going home.”

“i wish i were someone else, even though i know i'll never, ever be able to get away from what i've done and what's been done to me.”

“Then I go in the den and turn on Law & Order, since the only thing i can really count on in life is that whenever I turn on the TV, there will be a Law & Order episode.”

“I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.”

“I have to tell you, man, that my stalker meter is kind of registering in the red zone right now.”

“i have to cross the river of extreme awkwardness in order to get to the paradise on the other side.”

“3. You think that looks like a heart? If you do, that's only because you've never seen scrotum.”

“I text tiny a minute later.

MADE NEW GAY FRIEND.

And he texts back

PROGRESS!!!”

“tiny: maybe there's something you're afraid to say, or someone you're afraid to love, or somewhere you're afraid to go. it's gonna hurt. it's gonna hurt because it matters.”

“this blue shirt i have is practically the same color as my jeans, and looking all-blue is something only cookie monster can pull off.”

“that's it - hundreds of texts and conversations, thousands upon thousands of words spoken and sent, all boiled down into a single line. is that what relationships become?”

“That's what the voices in your head are for, to get you through the silent parts.”