Mouse loved that name until the day Fake Mom arrived. And then she no longer did.
-- Narrator (Mouse)

Importance: Mouse’s father was the one who gave her the nickname Mouse. This quote foreshadows that Fake Mom was hateful enough to Mouse about the name that Mouse began to hate her name.

No, that stayed there, because I resigned. It was the only way a claim of negligence didn’t end my medical career.
-- Narrator (Sadie)

Importance: Sadie wonders briefly if Joyce, her nurse, does not like her because she heard what happened to Sadie’s patient in Chicago. Sadie remembers that because she agreed to resign, she did not lose her ability to practice. Joyce should know nothing about what happened in Chicago.

It was Mom’s idea to take the knife to school. To scare them with, Otto lied, his eyes dropping to the floor while Will, the police officer and I watched on...
-- Narrator (Sadie)