Educated

by Tara Westover

all the decisions that go into making a life—the choices people make, together and on their own, that combine to produce any single event. Grains of sand, incalculable, pressing into sediment, then rock.

Tal cual, algo así también pensaba cuando habla de los papás de su papá y los mamá de su mamá.

positive liberty is self-mastery—the rule of the self, by the self. To have positive liberty, he explained, is to take control of one’s own mind; to be liberated from irrational fears and beliefs, from addictions, superstitions and all other forms of self-coercion.

I knew my yearning was unnatural. This knowledge, like so much of my self-knowledge, had come to me in the voice of people I knew, people I loved. All through the years that voice had been with me, whispering, wondering, worrying. That I was not right. That my dreams were perversions. That voice had many timbres, many tones. Sometimes it was my father’s voice; more often it was my own.

that when my mother told me she had not been the mother to me that she wished she’d been, she became that mother for the first time.

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that my mother had not confronted my father, and my father had not confronted Shawn. Dad had never promised to help me and Audrey. Mother had lied.

Lo que pensé que era lo mejor del mundo era una mentira. Una mentira que Tara quería creer. Una mentira que yo también deseaba que me engañara.