Laura Gwilliam

“I have often regretted my speech, but never my silence,”
― Max Gunther, How to Get Lucky (Harriman Classics): 13 techniques for discovering and taking advantage of life’s good breaks

“The decisions I made after that moment were not the ones she would have made. They were the choices of a changed person, a new self.
You could call this selfhood many things. Transformation. Metamorphosis. Falsity. Betrayal.
I call it an education”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“Pain expanded my heart.”
― Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries

“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