When you’ve read the final page of this book and turned off your light, or gotten off at your stop, or finished the last of your coffee, I want you to forget about me, my name, my face, my journey, and look inward toward yourself … healing is a live in all of us, it’s for all of us. I knew this, feel it, in every perfect breath I take. I hope that when you’re through, you’ll know too.”
-- The Author (Narration) (Preface)

Importance: This quote from the Preface clearly establishes the author's intention to reach out and connect with readers, inspiring them to not necessarily take the same journey that she was on but to look for opportunities to take similar journeys themselves. The comments here are bracketed by similar comments, using almost exactly the same words, in the book's Epilogue. There, she again urges readers to take inspiration from what...