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The God of the Woods
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Amanda Montell
“Come along. Join me. Life is much too peculiar to go at it all alone.”
Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism—Understanding the Social Science of Cult Influence

Casey McQuiston
“I study fauna at their watering hole like it’s National Geographic. I’m the Steve Irwin of having a pint with the lads.”
Casey McQuiston, The Pairing

Tara Westover
“My life was narrated for me by others. Their voices were forceful, emphatic, absolute. It had never occurred to me that my voice might be as strong as theirs.”
Tara Westover, Educated

Tara Westover
“Everything I had worked for, all my years of study, had been to purchase for myself this one privilege: to see and experience more truths than those given to me by my father, and to use those truths to construct my own mind. I had come to believe that the ability to evaluate many ideas, many histories, many points of view, was at the heart of what it means to self-create. If I yielded now, I would lose more than an argument. I would lose custody of my own mind. This was the price I was being asked to pay, I understood that now. What my father wanted to cast from me wasn’t a demon: it was me.”
Tara Westover, Educated

Amanda Montell
“A linguistic concept called the theory of performativity says that language does not simply describe or reflect who we are, it creates who we are. That’s because speech itself has the capacity to consummate actions, thus exhibiting a level of intrinsic power. (The plainest examples of performative language would be making a promise, performing a wedding ceremony, or pronouncing a legal sentence.) When repeated over and over again, speech has meaningful, consequential power to construct and constrain our reality.”
Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism—Understanding the Social Science of Cult Influence

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