Y'all think a body be who you is, but it ain't nothing but a motherfucking sack of meat.
-- Scotty (Chapter 1: Braindancing paragraph 32)

Importance: This shows Scotty's outlook on the universe. Essentially, he believes that the physical body does not matter, but there is something more, within us, that makes us who we are.

The men passed laughter between them like beer, mollifying a shared disappointment, frustration, and rage intense enough to turn murderous if you provoked it, though the opportunity to vent wouldn't ever arrive. Even if they got a chance, the talons of injustice would swoop down soon enough, dismember these men, and be gone, and everybody would forget that any of it had happened, aside from a lingering miasma that might rise into the spanish moss.”
-- Narrator (Chapter 3: Conjure paragraph 52)

Importance: This describes the injustice that took place in Darlene and Nat's town. Nat is essentially attempting to fight this injustice, but the narrator is foreshadowing his failure...