Promise me you'll memorize the path through it, so if you ever needed to, you could navigate it in the darkness. Please.
-- Xi Lo as Jacko (June 30 of “A Hot Spell: 1984” paragraph 67)

Importance: This is Jacko's final conversation with Holly. She doesn't know that it's really Xi Lo who is talking to her and that this will one day save her life, but Xi Lo apparently already knows the details of the final battle between the Horologists and Anchorites.

What is born must one day die. So says the contract of life, yes?
-- Miss Constantin (December 13 of “Myrrh is Mine, Its Bitter Perfume: 1991” paragraph 44)

Importance: This is Constantin's first contact with Hugo Lamb and she's capturing his interest in the hope of recruiting him for the Anchorites. She goes on to say that this contract can sometimes be “rewritten.”

I created Anyder not only as fake account holder to own and obscure my ill-gotten gains, but to be a better, sharper, truer version of Hugo Lamb.
-- Hugo Lamb (December 31 of “Myrrh is Mine, Its Bitter Perfume: 1991” paragraph 84)

Importance: Hugo has just been accused of cheating...