It’s the space of a blink in an entire life, but perhaps it’s there and then that Matteo finally decides he’s had enough of being powerless.
-- Narrator (Chapter 11)

Importance: The night of the storm, Matteo is almost hit by Ana as she drives Hannah to the car in the forest where the pregnant woman is in labor. The truck that almost hit him never stopped or slowed down, angering Matteo. It is at this moment that he decides that he is tired of being powerless.

Leo has everything Matteo doesn’t have, in every sense, so computer games are fair in a way that the real world never is. There a boy with a secondhand computer sitting on the floor can seek out a boy surrounded by the newest, most expensive technology, wait for him to lose concentration and shoot him in the head.
-- Narrator (Chapter 22)

Importance: The quote brings out the differences...