Books that are based on facts, real events, and real lives.
You could call this self-hood many things. Transformation. Metamorphosis. Falsity. Betrayal. I call it an education.
Tara Westover – Educated
I am only a woman if woman is something one becomes, not something one is born.
Tara Westover – Educated
The skill I was learning was a crucial one, the patience to read things I could not yet understand.
Tara Westover – Educated
A person’s life is not a narrative. It’s a collage.
Tara Westover – Educated
What is a person but a collection of choices? Where do those choices come from? Do I choose them, or do they choose me?
Tara Westover – Educated
If I yielded now, I would lose more than an argument. I would lose custody of my own mind.
Tara Westover – Educated
There is a world beyond the mountain. There is life as I had never lived it.
Tara Westover – Educated
The past was a ghost, insubstantial, unaffecting. Only the future had weight.
Tara Westover – Educated
I am not the child my parents raised, but I am the person I have chosen to become.
Tara Westover – Educated
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
Jonathan Eig – Ali: A Life