Status Updates From Last Summer

"I think they're afraid. That's why they threw the party in the first place, why it's lasting through the night. But that's exactly why I want to be invited! I'm as scared as they are, I want to be drowned in sound and color. But I have the feeling that once I get there, I'll really become like all the rest, that in our nuclear generation I'll forget that I'm the nucleus and lose myself in all the others laughing."

"The spying was made to seem like an extension of the man's estrangement, spying being a job without a product, a detached sort of work in which even the old slogans like patriotism and freedom become lost in all the double-crossing on both sides, boy what a picture."

i stg he remembers more about his analysis of this movie he saw one time than he does about his friends

[reaching the fifth consecutive page of the narrator describing a movie he watched] ohhhhh this story is being told by a Film Bro

"After a while, Sandy said, 'We’re Martians who’ve just landed in a spaceship, and we have no idea what human beings are like. All we can do is reconstruct them from their artifacts.' Then she stooped to pick up a rusty spoon, and speculated that the people on earth were undoubtedly only a foot high, otherwise why would their shovels be so small?"

I love that sandy is always trying to get her friends to do minigames

"Get out of the sun," the girl said, "he needs the sun."

[exactly 12 lines later]

"Get him out of the sun," Sandy said.