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 (update note to self July 2013: I hear the audio version has Tiny singing!) 
 I wish I was as witty as any of these characters! I love how earnest and honest -- and funny -- they are. Know your reader -- lots of language and talk of sex, but such a winning look into the lives of two teens who both happen to be named Will Grayson. 
 Favorite quotes: 
 "You like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot." 
 a name to call someone you REALLY don't like: "f---ing witch a-- b---- mussolini al-qaeda darth vader non-entity" 
 "how have i ended up dating this sprinkled donut of a person?" 
 father to son: "I'm so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that." 
 "NO. No no no. I don't want to screw you. I just love you. When did who you want to screw become the whole game? Since when is the person you want to screw the only person you get to love? It's so stupid, Tiny! I mean, Jesus, who even gives a f--- about sex?! People act like it's the most important thing humans do, but come on. How can our sentient f---ing lives revolve around something slugs can do. I mean, who you want to screw and whether you screw them? Those are important questions, I guess. But they're not that important. You know what's important? Who would you die for? Who do you wake up at five forty-five in the morning for even though you don't even know why he needs you? Whose drunken nose would you pick?!" 
 "but there is a word, this word phil wrayson taught me once: weltschmerz. it's the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be. i live in a big weltschmerz ocean, you know? and so do you. and so does everyone." 
 "because we can't stop the weltschmerz. we can't stop imagining the world as it might be. which is awesome! it's my favorite thing about us!"