I felt like a Tinkertoy kid building my own self out of one of those toy building sets; for as she laid her life before me,I reassembled the tableau of her words like a picture puzzle,and as I did, so my own life was rebuilt.
This would have to be my favorite quote in the book. Sure, there's others in there that are just as amazing but this one really hit home for me, at the present time haha. :')
It's significant because James used to be ashamed and embarrassed of his mother and (sometimes) his heritage, but when he listened to his mother tell him these stories, her actual life just poured into words, he realized he didn't even know half of what it meant to be himself, much less his mother.
It gave him that good kick in the ass and made him rebuild what he thought he knew about life AND himself. And someone who can make you rebuild who you are and make you really "get it", will be one of the most amazing people you will ever meet in your life. <3
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