This year I had managed to become a voluntary orphan for Christmas, telling my mother that I was spending it with my father, and my father that I was spending it with my mother, so that each of them booked nonrefundable vacations with their post-divorce paramours.
-- Dash (Chapter 1 paragraph 7)

Importance: This quote explains how Dash is on his own during Christmas and how broken his family is that his parents allow it to happen.

Oh, impertinence! I should have known better than to mention Christmas movies.
-- Dash (Chapter 3 paragraph 2)

Importance: This quote shows Dash's disdain for Christmas and his strong vocabulary.

Grandpa said he decided to renovate the upstairs apartment for his later-in-life bachelor digs because climbing the stairs every day would keep him young.
-- Lily (Chapter 6 paragraph 3)

Importance: This quote shows a snippet of the personality of Lily's grandfather before the reader meets him.

I walked from room to room, naked as the day I was born, only without the blood...
-- Dash (Chapter 7 paragraph 28)