What if that mound of stuff was us?...You and me, but ‘cept babies of us from the future, that get all jammed up together in their travel back in time to now...
-- Dunham (Prologue)

Importance: This line of narration is form the novel's prologue, in which two boys find a strange creature on the shore of St. Augustine. This prologue is tangentially connected to the main narrative in a few ways. For example, Dunham's startling theory (articulated in this quotation) evokes some of the surreal notions of space/time travel that appear later in the novel.

I look at my right hand and see a cigarette there. Odd. I did not light a cigarette…I gave up smoking five months ago.
-- B. Rosenberg (Narration) (chapter 3)

Importance: This moment is possibly the first instance in the novel in which B.'s memory distinctively fails him. B. does not recall lighting a cigarette. As the novel continues, memory becomes...