By my second day at Warwick High School, if you'd told me I would choose to go to hell for its queen bee, I might have believed you.
-- Lela (Prologue paragraph Page xv, Paragraph 2)

Importance: This sets up the book's premise and establishes the fact that the friendship between Lela and Nadia will deepen significantly.

When she'd given me that camera for my seventeenth birthday, it was like she'd given me permission to capture it all, like she was saying our friendship was real.
-- Lela (Chapter 1 paragraph Page 8, Paragraph 3)

Importance: This foreshadows Lela's later discovery of the haunted look on Nadia's face in some of the photos she took, as well as the subject for the tattoo she gets.

In my head, the world was caving in. This was the thing I'd feared ever since I'd let myself get close to her -- that like everyone else, she would turn her back on me. I felt like such an idiot having all these...
-- Lela (Chapter 2 paragraph Page 21, Paragraph 3)