"Even a spotted pig looks black at night. This is another thing Mama used to tell me quite often. It means that things always look different, and usually better, in the morning."

"Even a spotted pig looks black at night. This is another thing Mama used to tell me quite often. It means that things always look different, and usually better, in the morning." - page 148

Now that Taylor isn't around her mother to much, and doesnt talk to her to often anymore she still thinks about her most of the time. Her mother made her who she is, with her independence and everything. It shows how she still thinks of her mother by the simplest things she would tell Taylor. Taylor probably wishes her mother could see what she has and how she has made her life for herself and Turtle. So she could show her mother how independant she has become thanks to her.