> "Here's something coming up that I think is interesting. If you are interested, you should keep reading."

But nearly no one ever uses it to refer to what is coming up, its almost always what has just happened 1 sentence ago.

> A lot of people have trouble with long runs of samey text.

nothing is more samey than repeating the same sentence!

pull quotes like how this article has,punishes the user for reading the article word for word. There are other methods that have the pull quotes outside of the flow!

And if it is a really important sentence, then throw some slight yellow background on the text or something, like a highlighter!