We’ll figure out what the disk was.’ Jameson as good as read my mind. ‘The world is the board, Heiress. We just have to keep rolling the dice.
-- Jameson (Chapter 2)

Importance: The quote is an example of games as a motif in the novel. Jameson uses the analogy of playing a game as a way to tell Avery that they do not need to give up trying to find out about the strange disk that Toby has.

I’d grown up poor. I’d been that girl — the one nobody expected much from, the one who was treated as less than because I had less.
-- Narrator (Chapter 6)

Importance: Even though Avery does not trust Eve from the beginning, she understands Eve because they have so much in common. Avery was poor before she was named in Tobias’s will. She understands how people who are poor are treated as if they are not as important...