Thao Dinh

“It’s strange how you give the people you love so much power over you.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“First find out what you are capable of, then decide who you are.”
― Tara Westover

“We are all of us more complicated than the roles we are assigned in the stories other people tell”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“This is a magical place,” I said. “Everything shines here.” “You must stop yourself from thinking like that,” Dr. Kerry said, his voice raised. “You are not fool’s gold, shining only under a particular light. Whomever you become, whatever you make yourself into, that is who you always were. It was always in you. Not in Cambridge. In you. You are gold. And returning to BYU, or even to that mountain you came from, will not change who you are. It may change how others see you, it may even change how you see yourself—even gold appears dull in some lighting—but that is the illusion. And it always was.”
― Tara Westover, Educated