There's a little less of evening now, and that's a warning. You have to live every day twice over because you'll be back in the jailhouse of a school before the end of the month.”
-- Russell (chapter 1)

Importance: Russell is describing the situation as the summer comes to a close. His comparison of the school to a jail is one of many examples of how he feels about school.

All I know for sure is that she's cut her last switch."
-- Charlie (chapter 3)

Importance: Charlie is telling Russell and Lloyd that Miss Myrt died earlier that evening.

Miss Myrt was not one of us,' Preacher Parr recalled. 'She served here only twenty-two years, a foreigner in our midst, as she came from up around Crawfordsville.'”
-- Preacher Parr (chapter 5)

Importance: This is part of the eulogy for Miss Myrt. The preacher's words indicate that this is a tight-knit community and outsiders are not accepted.

She died of her own...
-- Russell (chapter 6)