Bourne is a town of unexpected consequences, a place where what no one sees coming runs you over like a truck.”
-- Mab (One )

Importance: Mab is making a comparison with the first day of school, but this is referring to the damage by Belsum to the residents of the town. No one realized they were being poisoned until it was too late and many died or developed serious health issues. This scene is early in the novel and the reader will later realize just how terrible the damage has been.

Maybe, in his man-of-the-cloth hat rather than his man-of-the-stethoscope one, he appealed to their better natures, or maybe he pointed out that maximum claim reimbursement was a good PR opportunity in the immediate aftermath when so many eyes were on us, or maybe it's these companies' there-but-for-the-grace-of-God knowledge that however outrageous the request, we are not faking it.”
-- Mirabel (Three)

Importance: Mirabel explains that there are...