How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph) or (Feed Chatter #.Paragraph)
Quote #7
It's times like this that I'm real glad I have friends. They say friends are worth your weight in gold. (18.8)
Titus right now is hanging out with his friends only on the feed—not in person, like when they were all having such a good time in the hospital on the moon. So that's one thing. But the really creepy thing here is that he says friends are worth "worth your weight in gold," when the expression is usually "worth their weight in gold." It seems like, in Feed, even friends end up being about you.
Quote #8
This was this meg good place, because only Link's best friends, we were the only ones that knew about it. We would be up here, all together, and people who weren't his good friends, they'd be walking around downstairs, and we could hear them, and we'd be laughing our asses off. (36.31)
Getting to hide upstairs at Link's house is a sign that you've "arrived," you lucky son-of-a-gun. Notice how "best friends" don't get special access to, say, Link's thoughts and feelings; they get special access to his house. Ah, the privileges of intimacy.
Quote #9
I want to go on rides. The flume, the teacups, the Tilt-a-Whirl? You know, a big bunch of us on the teacups, with you and me crushed together from the centrifugal force. (40.17)
Violet's wish to have a big group of kids head off to an amusement park seems like something straight out of a Disneyland commercial—and it also shows us her need to be accepted and liked. Remember: the whole reason she went to the moon in the first place was to get to see for once how most kids lived. She may be a rebel, but she's a lonely teenager first.