Tiffany sometimes feels she is nothing more than a way of moving boots around.
-- Tiffany (1: "A Clang Well Done")

Importance: Tiffany is a girl who has been raised to be a useful member of the family from the moment she was born, and so feels overlooked sometimes. Little attention is paid to her and she is expected to simply get on with her chores, so she has little time to think about what kind of person she is and what she likes and dislikes in life.

They sold the key to the universe to people who didn't even know it was locked.
-- The Teachers (1: "A Clang Well Done")

Importance: The teachers who moved from place to place selling their knowledge are among the few who received any form of education, and so are imparting information to people who have never had any reason to believe it existed until then. The gap between the educated and the laypeople is shown to be very wide...