How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
What kills me most is my inability to remember much of that journey when she drove me to the Jellicoe Road. And I want to. I want to remember the look in her eyes when she realized that she had to let go of the person who was her closest link to Webb. Did she look at me and tell me she loved me? Or did she not speak at all because the words would slice her throat, leaving her to bleed to death all the way back? (24.1)
Taylor's ultimately brought to the place of not only understanding her mother's decision to leave her, but sensing the great regret she must have felt for doing so. By emotionally putting herself in her mom's shoes, she's able to sense the way leaving Taylor behind hurt her mother as well as herself.