144 Quotes by Tara Westover

It’s comforting to think the defect is mine, because that means it is under my power.

Dad seemed eager to fight, to prove who was in charge.

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

He seemed smaller to me than he had that morning. The disappointment in his features was so childlike, for a moment I wondered how God could deny him this. He, a faithful servant, who suffered willingly just as Noah had willingly suffered to build the ark.But God withheld the flood.

First find out what you are capable of, then decide who you are.

Of the nature of women, nothing final can be known. Never had I found such comfort in a void, in the black absence of knowledge.

I could stay, and search for what had been home, or I could go, now, before the walls shifted and the way out was shut.

Social media has flooded our consciousness with caricatures of each other. Human beings are reduced to data, and data nearly always underrepresent reality. The result is this great flattening of human life and human complexity. We think that because we know someone is pro-choice or pro-life, or that they drive a truck or a Prius, we know everything we need to know about them. Human detail gets lost in the algorithm. Thus humanity gives way to ideology.

They were her words. But hers or not, those words, which had so comforted and healed me, were hollow. I don't believe they were faithless, but sincerity failed to give them substance, and they were swept away by other, stronger currents.