...I always found spaces—and I darted through them, I could taste the finish line, and suddenly I broke free, I burst out of the mob, I was in nothing but space and the drumbeat was deafening.
-- Narrator/Misha (chapter 5)

Importance: Misha says this during the first Jackboot parade. Though he is referring to his movements through the crowds of people in this particular scene, this line speaks to Misha's seemingly unstoppable speed and agility throughout the novel. The moment also foreshadows his coming ability to navigate between the entrapments of the ghetto and the city outside it. His spirit, contained in the above lines, also predict his escape from the horrors of Warsaw by the end of the novel.

Her round, unblinking eyes made me feel as if I had just become visible, as if I had never been seen before.
-- Narrator/Misha (chapter 7)

Importance: Misha says this of Janina when he first encounters her on the...