“I love you,” I say to him, only it comes out, “Hey.”“So damn much,” he says back, only it comes out, “Dude.”He still won’t meet my eyes.”
The complexity of young homosexual experience is displayed overtly in this quote. Repression of personal feelings has caused Noah to silence his romantic inclinations in favor of maintaining a sense of normalcy in his social relationships. The boys have a desire to express their true feelings but instead shove them away.
“You have to see the miracles for there to be miracles.”
Jude implies that when overlooked, miracles lose any sort of unique charm that would cause people to consider them so. Remarkable things happen every day, but if unnoticed, is their remarkable nature relevant at all? It is personal effort and self-awareness that leads people to appreciate the “miracles” in their lives. Failing to do as such causes people to wallow in their own static-ness and believe that the world is much darker than it truly is.
“If bad luck knows who you are, become someone else.”
After tampering with her brother’s art school acceptance and experiencing a rocky relationship with her mother, Jude finds herself striving to make things right with the people she cares about. With this quote, she embodies the notion that one can create their own destiny. If “bad luck” has followed you throughout your life, make the necessary personal changes required to escape the harmful habits or environments that created this negativity. In Jude’s case, jealousy and spite, among other traits, have weighed her down for a significant amount of time, and now she believes that she can better herself through art.
