Stuff like this never happened to her. Not the stuck-in-the-elevator thing--her life was full of minor crises like that. No, it was being stuck in an elevator with a hot guy that was the unusual part. She was always the one sitting on an airplane next to a chatty toddler, or a knitting grandma, or a bored college student; never a hot guy to be found.
-- Alexa (Chapter 1)

Importance: When Alexa gets trapped in the elevator with Drew, who she considers to be wildly attractive, she cannot believe her luck. This quote is also a comment on the fact that she is a black woman in a space of fairytale romance that has primarily been reserved for white women.

Her breasts against his chest and her lips against his ear made him want to pull her even closer, but they were in a room full of people. Oh, and right, she wasn't really...
-- Drew (Chapter 4)