Nathalie

“But sometimes I think we choose our illnesses, because they benefit us in some way.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“I had decided to study not history, but historians. I suppose my interest came from the sense of groundlessness I'd felt since learning about the Holocaust and the civil rights movement--since realizing that what a person knows about the past is limited, and will always be limited, to what they are told by others. I knew what it was to have a misconception corrected--a misconception of such magnitude that shifting it shifted the world. Now I needed to understand how the great gatekeepers of history had come to terms with their own ignorance and partiality. I thought if I could accept that what they had written was not absolute but was the result of a biased process of conversation and revision, maybe I could reconcile myself with the fact that the history most people agreed upon was not the history I had been taught.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“An education is not so much about making a living as making a person.”
― Tara Westover, Educated