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“The skill I was learning was a crucial one, the patience to read things I could not yet understand.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“There’s a sense of sovereignty that comes from life on a mountain, a perception of privacy and isolation, even of dominion.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“But I slipped away, and am still slipping away, within these lines that are intended to give me a story, while in fact I am nothing, nothing of my own, nothing that has really begun or really been brought to completion: only a tangled knot, and nobody, not even the one who at this moment is writing, knows if it contains the right thread for a story or is merely a snarled confusion of suffering, without redemption.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Lying Life of Adults

“You think: Oh, here is the rest of my life. It’s finally arrived.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl