Nice job, fuckup.
-- Narrator (Orientation Flight)

Importance: In the aftermath of his injury, Jake spends his time isolated in his room regretting the stupidity of the events that led him to being confined to a wheelchair. He internalizes the words of his angry father who constantly referred to him as a fuckup. The fact that Jake believes his father's insults about himself indicates a character who is struggling to come to terms with his life circumstances. Slowly, as Jake begins to understand all that he has to offer the world, he realizes that these words were only his father projecting his own feelings about himself onto his son. Ultimately, Jake outlives this insult and proves to himself and his father that he is not a fuckup.

She was overwhelmed by the feeling that she was abandoning him.
-- Narrator (Scent Fanning)

Importance: When Alice drops Jake off at his home after running him off the road in his wheelchair...