It might be wrong, but more than wanting to be vindicated, Ava just wants to go back to how things were.
-- Ava (Part I: Park Slope Wives)

Importance: This quote establishes how desperate Ava is to return to her previous life and maintain her marriage despite Nate’s infidelity. She is willing to forgive him even though she feels betrayed. This helps establish one of Ava’s conflicts as she heads to Beirut because this is not something that is solved during her first chapter. She still feels like she cannot trust Nate even though she wants to return to normal. This fuels much of Ava’s actions in the future chapters and pushes her to confront her own anger and heartbreak without just trying to move on.

There was a lyric he almost wrote once but he didn’t: he knew it would get him in trouble. It was about Harp’s eyes, how sometimes they...
-- Mimi (Part I: Almost Rock Star)