Educated

by Tara Westover

I know only this: that when my mother told me she had not been the mother to me that she wished she had been, she became that mother for the first time.

But vindication has no power over guilt. No amount of anger or rage directed at others can subdue it, because guilt is never about them. Guilt is the fear of one’s own wretchedness. It has nothing to do with other people.