144 Quotes by Tara Westover

When you abuse someone, you limit their perspective, and you trap them in your view of them or your view of the world.

I don't really feel like I belong anywhere.

I think you can change your belief, but sometimes your behavior takes a lot longer.

I had grown up preparing for the Days of Abomination, watching for the sun to darken, for the moon to drip as if with blood.

I think for people who are inside these relationships that are really hard to leave, there is always a compelling reason to stay. It's not that they are wholly bad people.

I had a mental breakdown while doing my Ph.D. at Cambridge, soon after I cut off contact with my parents, and I started seeing the university counsellor, one of the best decisions I ever made. There's something very nourishing in setting aside an hour a week to talk.

My family always spent the warm months bottling fruit for storage, which Dad said we'd need in the Days of Abomination.

All my father's stories were about our mountain, our valley, our jagged little patch of Idaho.

The things about my childhood that I really loved the most, writing about those things was hard because I knew they would never happen again.