Educated

Tara Westover, Educated

 

p.203. Curiosity is a luxury reserved for the financially secure

 

p.207. I began to experience the most powerful advantage of money: the ability to think of things besides money.

 

p.225. I was neither under his spell, nor free of it.

 

p.226. I could have told him all that, could have surrendered the weight, let the relationship carry it and grow stronger.

 

p.272. when my mother told me she had not been the mother to me that she wished she'd been, she became that mother for the first time. 

 

p.312. The distance-physical and mental-that had been traversed in the last decade nearly stopped my breath, and I wondered if perhaps I had changed too much. All my studying, reading, thinking, traveling, had it transformed me into someone who no longer belonged anywhere I thought of the girl who, knowing nothing beyond her junkyard and her mountain, had stared at a screen, watching as two planes sailed into stranger white pillars. Her classroom was a heap of junk. Her textbooks, slates of scrap. And yet she had something precious that I-despite all my opportunities, or maybe because of them-did not.