I always got my best ideas at bedtime, drifting in and out of sleep, the membrane between my conscious mind and the black and salty marshes of my undermind grown thin and permeable.
-- Leia (chapter 1)

Importance: Leia explains her creative process. She sees is it as something mysterious. For her, it is at the border of her unconscious and conscious mind.

It was as if she teleported slightly above and to the left of her own human turmoil, ready to help me, to fix and manage my mess. This was her essential self, her place, always, as the rest of us mere mortals plodded through our tacky mud.
-- Leia (chapter 3)

Importance: Leia views Rachel is this way. She believes her sister has the super power of being able to fix the lives of others. She is able to distance herself from her own current pain in order to fix Leila’s problems.

My niece was a...
-- Leia (chapter 4)