and i fall
“this is why we call people exes, i guess - because the paths that cross in the middle end up separating at the end. it’s too easy to see an X as a cross-out. it’s not, because there’s no way to cross out something like that. the X is a diagram of two paths.”
"Love is always a miracle, everywhere, every time. But for us, it's a little different. I don't want to say it's more miraculous," he says, and people laugh a little. "It is, though." (...) "Our miracle is different because people says it's impossible. As it sayeth in Leviticus, 'Dude shall not lie with dude'." He looks down, and then out into the audience, and I can tell he is looking for the other Will and not finding him. He stands up. "But it doesn't say that dude shall not fall in love with dude, because that it's just impossible, right? The gays are animals, answering their animal desires. It's impossible for animals to fall in love. And yet-"
Suddenly, Tiny's knees buckle and he collapses in a heap. I jolt up and start to run onstage to pick him up, but Jane grabs a fistful of my shirt as Tiny raises his head toward the audience and says, "I fall and I fall and I fall and I fall and I fall."
Will Grayson, Will Grayson, by John Green, David Levithan