Tara Westover

"It's very difficult to continue to believe in yourself and that you're a good person when the people who know you best don't."

- Tara Westover

"My brother once lit his leg on fire. And after, when the fire was finally out, his leg was covered in third-degree burns. And we made the decision - or my parents did - not to take him to the hospital but to treat that at home with a salve my mother made of comfrey and lobelia."

- Tara Westover

"Forgiveness isn’t just the absence of anger. I think it’s also the presence of self-love, when you actually begin to value yourself."

- Tara Westover

"I had been educated in the rhythms of the mountain, rhythms in which change was never fundamental, only cyclical. The same sun appeared each morning, swept over the valley, and dropped behind the peak. The snows that fell in winter always melted in the spring."

- Tara Westover