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Tara Westover

  • endradorahas quoted2 years ago
    “I asked him the dumbest questions I could think of.”
  • b0532204923has quoted2 years ago
    I had grown up preparing for the Days of Abomination, watching for the sun to darken, for the moon to drip as if with blood.
  • b0532204923has quoted2 years ago
    I had been educated in the rhythms of the mountain, rhythms in which change was never fundamental, only cyclical
  • b0532204923has quoted2 years ago
    believed my family was a part of this immortal pattern, that we were, in some sense, eternal.
  • b8001871515has quoted2 years ago
    am only seven, but I understand that it is this fact, more than any other, that makes my family different: we don’t go to school.
  • b8001871515has quoted2 years ago
    Dad worries that the Government will force us to go but it can’t, because it doesn’t know about us. Four of my parents’ seven children don’t have birth certificates.
  • b8001871515has quoted2 years ago
    We have no medical records because we were born at home and have never seen a doctor or nurse.* We have no school records because we’ve never set foot in a classroom. When I am nine, I will be issued a Delayed Certificate of Birth, but at this moment, according to the state of Idaho and the federal government, I do not exist.
  • b8001871515has quoted2 years ago
    believed my family was a part of this immortal pattern, that we were, in some sense, eternal. But eternity belonged only to the mountain.
  • b8001871515has quoted2 years ago
    but Buck’s Peak was the most finely crafted.
  • b8001871515has quoted2 years ago
    Dad said the nomadic Indians had watched for her appearance as a sign of spring, a signal the mountain was thawing, winter was over, and it was time to come home.
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