When asking a complicated question, you should prepare for the question to shake and quake into a thousand more. Because people, like fires, can surprise you. And lies, like flames, can spread faster than we can put them out.
-- Anna Hunt (Prelude)

Importance: Anna writes these words as she submits her Rachel Riley project late. The reader does not yet know what happened with Rachel Riley as this letter appears at the very beginning of the book. What Anna learns throughout the book, and what she learned before submitting this assignment, was that things are not always as simple as they seem. She tries to piece together what happened to Rachel, but each new piece of information brings her new questions. She ultimately is able to answer these questions by the end of the novel.

It wasn’t that she didn’t have friends. It was that she had enemies. Everyone.
-- Anna Hunt (Chapter 1)

Importance: Anna says these...