She'd never have her own concerns...
-- Narrator (Pages 3 - 44)

Importance: Ree has this thought after realizing she will have to search for her father. The moment illustrates Ree's feelings of entrapment. She is so bound to her family, to caring for her brothers and mother in her father's absence, that she fears she will never be able to pursue her own desires and hopes.

Our relations get watered kinda thin between this valley here and Hawkfall.
-- Uncle Teardrop (Pages 3 - 44)

Importance: Uncle Teardrop says this to Ree when warning her about going to Hawkfall in search of Jessup. While the Dolly family clan is loyal to one another, those who are not a part of their insular circle promise danger and risk to Ree's wellbeing. The line speaks to the novel's larger thematic interests in familial connections, in the loyalties dictated by lineage. Once Ree moves outside these relational ties in her pursuit of her father, she faces more...