Of course, I have some experience serving as a vessel for memories of the dead, and perhaps that has influenced my feelings on the matter.
-- Narrator (chapter 1)

Importance: At the start of the novel, Hazel is both avoiding and attempting to understand her grief over Vik's death. As soon as she starts trying to explain her loss, and her related feelings, however, she becomes distracted by the blizzard party. Unable to fully confront or explore her sorrow, she attributes her complicated emotions to that night at Bo and Jane's apartment. This line marks Hazel's attempt to link Vik's disappearance to the blizzard party. The moment also introduces the author's thematic interest in memory and the past.

Reading it was an oddly dreamlike experience, not unlike being caught in an unending state of déjà vu.
-- Narrator (chapter 4)

Importance: Hazel tells the reader at the start of the novel that she is endeavoring to rewrite her father's...