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Why people grabbed the beer and soda, the cash from the registers and safe, the rolls of lottery tickets, but left the two pallets of drinking water was beyond me. What were they thinking? It’s an alien apocalypse! Quick, grab the beer!
Hehehe she's so cute
How do you rid the Earth of humans? Rid the humans of their humanity.
Deep. You don't even need aliens to do this.
Then the door flew open and Mr. Faulks told us to head over to the gym. I thought that was really smart. Get all of us in one place so the aliens didn’t have to waste a lot of ammunition.
lol
What’s with the cotton nightie? Beneath which, I am naked. Which means, of course, that at some point between the removal of my clothes and donning of the nightie I was completely naked, which means I was completely naked.
lol gawd I love her
“I’m not making this up.” “Why green, though?” “Because green is the color of money, grass, oak leaves, and alien bombs. How the hell would I know why it was green?”
Right? lol
Or maybe, I think, it is a creeper stare and the concerned look is just a clever cover. Are pervs only pervs if you don’t find them attractive?
That's usually how it goes, yes.
Who does this teenage version of the Brawny paper-towel guy think he’s kidding?
Omg lol
I can smell his breath. Chocolate. Chocolate! My mouth starts to water. I can actually feel my saliva glands pumping. I haven’t had solid food in weeks, and what does he bring me? Some greasy mystery meat–based broth. He’s been holding out on me, this farm boy bastard.
lol! I can't with her!
We’re here, and then we’re gone, and it’s not about the time we’re here, but what we do with the time.”
One more time for the people in the back
“I had it all wrong,” he says. “Before I found you, I thought the only way to hold on was to find something to live for. It isn’t. To hold on, you have to find something you’re willing to die for.”
#Truth
There’s my big takeaway from the Arrival. By killing us, they showed us the idiocy of stuff. The guy who owned this BMW? He’s in the same place as the woman who owned that Kia.
My mouth drops open, and I think, Huh? Then I say it: “Huh?”
lol
“It’s hopeless. And it’s stupid. It’s suicidal. But love is a weapon they have no answer for. They know how you think, but they can’t know what you feel.”
