I think you’re a sweet, wonderful person, but there’s a seriously big hole in you, and if you don’t figure out what that is you’re just going to start stuffing it with, I don’t know, a crazy religion or some other bullshit.
-- Rochelle (chapter 25)

Importance: Rochelle says this to Lewyn when she discovers he kept his relation to Sally a secret. Through her brutal honesty, Rochelle provides a welcome contrast to the deceitful Oppenheimer family. The “crazy religion” Rochelle refers to is Mormonism (338). She is correct in her assumption that Lewyn uses religious exploration to escape his problems.

After the accident he lacked a sense of fully inhabiting his own life, as if he were still, somehow, tumbling through that tumbling air… He was there, but he was always in that other place, the tumbling place, the place he was used to now.
-- Phoebe (chapter 2)

Importance: This quote describes Salo’s...