Once, she might have equated wealth and jewels with a person’s worthiness, but now she knew the truth: The gods gave and took for their own incomprehensible reasons, and only fools tried to make sense of it.
-- Alessa (Two)

Importance: This quote establishes both Alessa’s fading faith as well as how much her worldview has changed since becoming the Finestra. This is very important because the audience did not know her as a child. So, this quote gives them a sense of how she has grown and what she still needs to learn. In this case, she recognizes that wealth is not everything and that it is unfair to assume that those with the most are the gods’ chosen. At the same time, there is bitterness in her words that shows how frustrated she is with herself for trying to understand what she already believes is impossible to know.

Let them...
-- Mysterious Man (Dante) (Five)