## Metadata - Author: [[Tara Westover]] - Full Title: Educated - Category: #books ## Highlights - There’s a sense of sovereignty that comes from life on a mountain, a perception of privacy and isolation, even of dominion. In that vast space you can sail unaccompanied for hours, afloat on pine and brush and rock. It’s a tranquillity born of sheer immensity; it calms with its very magnitude, which renders the merely human of no consequence. Gene was formed by this alpine hypnosis, this hushing of human drama. ([Location 517](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B072BLVM83&location=517)) - Tags: [[favorite]] - In retrospect, I see that this was my education, the one that would matter: the hours I spent sitting at a borrowed desk, struggling to parse narrow strands of Mormon doctrine in mimicry of a brother who’d deserted me. The skill I was learning was a crucial one, the patience to read things I could not yet understand. ([Location 1097](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B072BLVM83&location=1097)) - Not knowing for certain, but refusing to give way to those who claim certainty, was a privilege I had never allowed myself. My life was narrated for me by others. Their voices were forceful, emphatic, absolute. It had never occurred to me that my voice might be as strong as theirs. ([Location 3195](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B072BLVM83&location=3195)) - I had come to believe that the ability to evaluate many ideas, many histories, many points of view, was at the heart of what it means to self-create. ([Location 4827](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B072BLVM83&location=4827)) - and limestone. The Princess was as bright as I’d ([Location 5053](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B072BLVM83&location=5053))