‘In a sense, I am Jacob Horner.’ - The End Of The Road.

This sentence sets you up for a novel in which the main character cannot make a decision or commit to a course of action or opinion, and instead everything seems an equivocation.

This was the first one I thought of.

Foreshadowing of conflict, echoes of the novel’s theme of people always looking back and being trapped by nostalgia, the seemingly uncomplicated early days compared with the messy later days, and the ‘magic’ of ice, which reflects the recurring images of supernatural things being considered everyday and science and technology being consider mystical.