My mother used to say: Everyone has secrets. That's shy you can never really know anyone else. Or trust anyone. It's why you can never know yourself. Sometime we even keep secrets from ourselves.
-- An Unnamed Narrator (Part 1)

Importance: An unnamed narrator tells readers this at the beginning of the narrative. The quote foreshadows that people are not what they seem to be in the narrative and the unreliability of the narrators of the novel as they can have secrets that they do not even realize they are hiding. Even though readers may think that the narrator is Stephanie as she later says that her mother told her something similar and she is the narrator in the first part of the novel, the narrator could also be Miles or Nicky as both of their mothers have secrets and the quote at the beginning of a section controlled by Stephanie could be warning readers not to...