How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph) or (Feed Chatter #.Paragraph)
Quote #4
I hoped she could see my smile in the light of my brain. (12.27)
If you took this line out of context (which we just did), it would sound like a line from any teen romance. Truth: you might even scribble something like this in your top-secret diary. Teens of the future: they're just like us! Only with lesions.
Quote #5
She was staring at me, and I was staring at her, and I moved toward her, and we kissed. The vines beat against each other out in the gray, dead garden, they were all writhing against the spine of the Milky Way on its edge, and for the first time, I felt her spine, too, each knuckle of it, with my fingers, while the air leaked and the plants whacked each other near the silent stars. (15.12)
Whoa there, Titus. This is some meg poetic imagery for a guy who's probably never read a book in his life. Notice the parallelism in the imagery of the "spine of the Milky Way" and Violet's spine, which Titus is feeling up? This is a clue that, while Titus may have started out just wanting to hook up, he's going to end up falling hard.
Quote #6
It was great because we had music on our feeds, and it was the same music, so I knew she was hearing the same notes that I was hearing, and our heads were moving together, and she put her hand near the lift lever, so when I got to the exit tube and went to lift us, her hand was there, and our fingers closed over the lift lever, and we lifted it together, and were flung up into the sky. (18.12)
They're in the same upcar and they're also connected to the feed, listening to the same tunage the same way you might share iPod earbuds with your boo, each of you listening to the music through one earbud. So far, so cliché.