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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

“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

“Mornings have been the hardest things to adapt to; company after three decades of waking up alone. She has always considered herself the kind of person seen to best effect at four p.m., once the day has burnt away and softened up her difficulties. Having someone with her from the outset gives her no rehearsal space, no time to sink down into some more pliable version of the creature she is to begin with.”
― Julia Armfield, Salt Slow

“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