And as I told them that I was frightened, that I was sick of the winter and my job, I understood how deeply, deeply sick of the winter and my job, how frightened, I really was.
-- Narrator ("Your Duck Is My Duck")

Importance: The narrator has this realization after talking to Ray and Christa at a party. Vocalizing her sentiments grants her a new window into the significance of her disillusionment with her art and life. While the line creates the potential for an emotional change in the narrator, it takes her almost the entirety of the story to confront her fear. Instead of altering her life immediately after this moment, she employs another series of avoidance maneuvers before she is able to thoroughly engage with the truth of her internal turmoil.

I'm hurtling through time, strapped to an explosive device, my life.
-- Narrator ("Your Duck Is My Duck")

Importance: The narrator says this to Christa on their way from the airport to the...