Downtown Spencer is a picture postcard small-town America: rows of storefronts in connecting two-and-three-story buildings where people pull their cars to the curb, get out, and walk.”
-- Vicki (Introduction paragraph N/A)

Importance: This is one of the first descriptions of Spencer, meant to help the reader begin to understand this region.

By now it had been twenty minutes since I pulled the kitten out of the drop box, and I'd had plenty of time to think through a few things – the once common practice of keeping library cats, my ongoing plan to make the library more friendly and appealing, the logistics of bowls and food and cat litter, the trusting expression on the kitten's face when he burrowed into my chest and looked up into my eyes.”
-- Vicki (chapter 1 paragraph N/A)

Importance: This demonstrates that Vicki's immediate reaction was that Dewey belonged in the library.

I often drive by now without even recognizing it. The first four feet of our...
-- Vicki (chapter 6 paragraph N/A)