Yes. Yes. Turning the pages. Turning the pages. With one's entire life.
-- Narrator (I)

Importance: Throughout Chapter I, the narrator recounts and reflects upon her childhood relationship to books. The entirety of this opening section is dictated by descriptions of the narrator's reading habits. In this moment, she realizes that she has spent all of her life with books. Books have become and defined her identity, as they have become and defined her life. The moment contributes to the author's explorations regarding books and reading.

And what exactly do I know about her, this girl at the table who would be me?
-- Narrator (II)

Importance: Throughout the pages preceding this line, the narrator employs the first person plural and the third person points of view. This moment is therefore significant in that it is the first time the narrator's first person singular pronouns emerge on the page. The toggle between the first and third person pronouns...