Educated

You can love someone and still choose to say goodbye. You can miss a person every day and be glad they're gone.

The decision to become educated was a decision to change myself. Westover's definition, and mine now.

First, find out what the Holocaust is, said the professor. A girl from a survivalist house asked in good faith.

Dad's benzene warnings and the angel Moroni, faith and fear braided so tight you can't tell which is which.

The knife scene with Shawn and the toilet. Some chapters you read through your fingers.

My life is narrated for me by all those whose voices are louder. Writing this book took the microphone back.

Tyler said: there's a world out there, Tara, and it will look a lot better once Dad is not in your gaze. A brother as a door.

I am not the child my father raised, but he is the father who raised her. The most honest sentence about family I've read.

A PhD and a family that won't call. Education bills you in both currencies. Worth it. Also painful.

Carried out of it: self-invention is legal. Bring your own documents.