It took a minute before she realized she was smiling, that she'd been smiling since she discovered that the tunnel was real.
-- Narrator (2: The Key to Life)

Importance: This quote helps show the depth of Lucky’s ennui and her desperation to find something more. Just knowing that the tunnel is real, without even knowing what is inside the tunnel or if the stories attached to it are true, is enough to excite Lucky and make her feel excited about her own life again. Up to this point, much of Lucky’s existence was about avoidance. She avoided a writing career out of fear that it would not support her or be good enough to be published. She avoids telling Stella about the impending eviction. She avoids revealing her true feelings to Malcolm. But here, for the first time perhaps since her mother’s passing, Lucky is choosing not to avoid, to instead directly search for...