How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph) or (Feed Chatter #.Paragraph)
Quote #4
We had a party at the end of the week over at Quendy's, because her parents were off choking somewhere. That was when everyone was having those choking parties. I mean, it was completely midlife crisis. (18.9)
Look, we're not going to link to it, but every so often parents get all panicky about so-called "choking parties" among kids, because apparently choking yourself, or being choked, makes you kind of feel like you're high. (We wouldn't know, because that sounds incredibly dumb.) But the point is, Titus's parents can't even have a respectable midlife crisis by, like, buying cars or having affairs. Instead, they go out and act like the worst kind of teenagers.
Quote #5
The mall was really busy, there were a lot of crowds there. They were buying all this stuff, like the inflatable houses for their kids, and the dog massagers, and the tooth extensions that people were wearing, the white ones which you slid over your real teeth and they made your mouth just like one big single tooth going all the way across. (22.4)
Quote #6
Violet was standing near the fountain and she had a real low shirt on, to show off her lesion, because the stars of Oh? Wow! Thing! Had started to get lesions, so now people were thinking better about lesions, and lesions even looked kind of cool. (22.5)
Remember how in the beginning of the book the kids thought the lesions were kind of icky? Now that the stars of their favorite shows sport them, they're just fine. Thanks, feed! Eventually, the feed convinces the kids that lesions are so cool that they actually mimic them. Even our rebel Violet does it. Talk about the power of marketing!