Give him the lemonade of his memory and his dreams.
-- Narrator (Pages 271 - 275)

Importance: When the narrator asks her father if there is anything that she can do for him, he asks her to ask the nurses for some lemonade. The narrator promises to put in the request, although she already knows how the nurses will respond. This moment captures her longing to be able to satisfy her father's longings and to be able to make him comfortable and happy. At the same time, the line embodies the narrator's powerlessness to affect the change in her father's life that she wants to in the final days of his life.

I would try to make a bad situation diverting. He would be interested.
-- Narrator (Pages 271 - 275)

Importance: Because the narrator's world is on lockdown due to the coronavirus, the narrator is unable to visit her ailing father in the hospital. She is therefore powerless to comfort him or to...