Where other little girls fantasized about their wedding day, Clara had dreamed of a solo art show. At the Musée. Here. She just hadn’t seen it in quite this way.
-- Narrator (Chapter 2)

Importance: Clara’s act of dreaming about her first solo show instead of her wedding differentiates her from other young girls. This way of thinking shows that Clara is a real artist at heart and that her art is the most important thing in her life.

Maybe it isn’t hope at all,’ said Marois, ‘but merely a trick of the light.
-- Marois (Chapter 2)

Importance: Marois speaks of false promises when he suggests that what he is seeing in Mary’s eye is not hope, but instead just a “trick of the light” (28). Unbeknownst to either Gamache or Marois at the time, the quote sums up Lillian’s way of operating when she was writing art reviews. She would give the artist...