- Marco: [to Spinner] You didn't tell anybody my secret, did you, Spin?
- Spinner: I don't need this.
- Marco: Man, all I did was tell you the truth!
- Spinner: I never asked you to!
- Marco: And just like I didn't ask to be gay, or you didn't ask to like Paige, or Craig didn't ask to like Ash.
- Spinner: It's not the same!
- Marco: No... you get it easy.
- Spinner: Then stop being gay!
- Marco: Oh, right, Spin. I'm just gonna go do that!
- Spinner: Well, why not? It's not like you've actually done anything yet! Not that I need to know.
- Spinner: Spin...
- Marco: And nobody else needs to know, either. I mean, you can try dating Hazel, for real.
- [Marco shakes his head]
- Marco: Why not?
- Marco: Even strangers know, Spin. Last night wasn't about my shoes. Those guys, they knew! And they bashed me because they hate it. Just like you do!
- Spinner: Dude, that's brutal, but you can't compare me to those guys.
- Marco: Really? Why not?
- [walks off]
- Jimmy: [Spinner is writing something on the bathroom wall and Jimmy walks in] What's your problem with Marco?
- Spinner: What's my problem?
- [points to the words "Marco is a fag" that he wrote on the wall]
- Spinner: That's my problem, okay? And its true. He told me himself.
- Jimmy: Marco's gay?
- Spinner: Yeah. And if you don't back off...
- [nudges Jimmy away]
- Spinner: I may start to think you are, too.
- [walks over to the sink to wash his hands]
- Jimmy: So what are you gonna write next? Something about me being black?
- Marco: [to Spinner] So...
- Spinner: So, what?
- Marco: Look, Spin. Um... you didn't tell anyone, did you?
- Spinner: Tell anyone what?
- Marco: About what I said yesterday...
- [Spinner looks confused]
- Marco: at the café...
- [Spinner shrugs his shoulders, still looking confused]
- Marco: Man, after the date with Hazel. You know what I'm talking about!
- Spinner: [laughs] Dude, I can't read your mind, so just say it.
- Marco: [as he sits down next to Spinner] That I'm gay.
- Spinner: Oh, that! Well, you know, maybe I did. Maybe I didn't.
- Ellie Nash: [to Marco after he's been beaten up] So you're walking through the gay village alone, at night, and you get "swarmed for your shoes"?
- Marco: That's what happened.
- [looks at Ellie]
- Marco: Look, you don't believe me, El? Whatever.
- Ellie Nash: I don't. You should talk to the police.
- Marco: I did, last night!
- Ellie Nash: And your parents?
- Marco: What don't you get, El? With Spin and after last night, I am not telling anybody anything ever again!
- Ellie Nash: So, what? You're just gonna pretend...
- Marco: [interrupts Ellie] No, I'm just... I'm just not gonna be anything, okay? Gay or straight.
- Ellie Nash: And so what about Dylan?
- Marco: Ellie, just drop it, please! It's over.
- Manny Santos: Emma, what is it?
- Emma Nelson: [as she sees Snake outside on the phone] Nothing.
- Manny Santos: Then why do you look like you're gonna cry?
- Emma Nelson: [crying] Home's not too good right now, okay?
- Manny Santos: Is it the baby? Are your parents fighting?
- Emma Nelson: Snake is sick and it might be bad, but they're just doing tests. There might be nothing wrong at all, right?
- Manny Santos: Yeah, he's gonna be fine, Em. I know it.
- Spinner: [while Jimmy and Spinner are playing basketball]
- [to Jimmy]
- Spinner: Dude, you're worse than Marco.
- Jimmy: What's bugging you now?
- Spinner: The guy gets a black eye and it's the end of the world.
- [holds his eye and starts fake crying; Jimmy throws the basketball at him]
- Spinner: Hey!
- Jimmy: Look, you weren't there last night when I found him, okay?
- Spinner: Okay, calm down, hero. Just relax.
- Jimmy: You're such a loser.
- Spinner: Why, 'cuz I'm not all broken up over Marco and his stolen dancing shoes? Look, if he would've walked to the game with us, none of that would've happened! Last night was his fault, not mine!
- Archie 'Snake' Simpson: [to Emma] Em... don't cry. Don't cry. There's nothing to cry about.
- Emma Nelson: Snake, you have cancer. You're sick, and you're always just so calm or joking or shaving your head like nothing's wrong.
- Archie 'Snake' Simpson: Because I have to be like this, Emma, if I'm gonna beat it.
- Emma Nelson: And are you?
- Archie 'Snake' Simpson: Yes! I promise you, and Jack, and your mom. Yes!