I’m wrongfully accused,’ I mutter, and yank the door open. Three other students are already seated, and I pause to take them in. Not the group I would have predicted. Except one.
-- Bronwyn (Part 1, Chapter 1)

Importance: When Simon is sarcastic about Bronwyn’s presence in detention, she tells him that she was wrongfully accused, a claim that later turns out to be true. At the end of the novel, it is learned that Simon planted the phones in Bronwyn and other backpacks to get the backpacks' owners sent to detention.

She’s a princess and you’re a jock,’ he says. He thrusts his chin toward Bronwyn, then at Nate. ‘And you’re a brain. And you’re a criminal. You’re all walking teen-movie stereotypes.
-- Simon (Part 1, Chapter 1)

Importance: Simon accuses the students whom he has arranged to get into detention of being stereotypes straight from a teen movie. Instead of getting to know each of...