It is the eighteenth of November. Every night when I lie down to sleep in the bed in the guest room it is the eighteenth of November and every morning, when I wake up, it is the eighteenth of November. I no longer expect to wake up to the nineteenth of November and I no longer remember the seventeenth of November as if it were yesterday.
-- Narration (N/A paragraph N/A)

Importance: This quote establishes the central premise of the novel: Tara is trapped in a time loop, experiencing the same day repeatedly. It conveys her sense of disorientation and the disconnection from normal temporal progression, highlighting the psychological and emotional weight of living in a single day without past or future relief.

I usually sit on the bed while I wait for Thomas to get back and I know that first one, then another dark shadow will come along the road at the bottom of...
-- Narration (N/A paragraph N/A)