Top 160 Tara Westover Quotes (2024 Update)
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Tara Westover Quote: “At the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica, I stood before Carrivagio’s Judith Beheading Holofernes and did not once think about chickens.”

151. “At the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica, I stood before Carrivagio’s Judith Beheading Holofernes and did not once think about chickens.”

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Tara Westover Quote: “They see change as dangerous and will exile anyone who asks for it. This is a perverted idea of family loyalty.”

152. “They see change as dangerous and will exile anyone who asks for it. This is a perverted idea of family loyalty.”

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Tara Westover Quote: “What is a person to do, I asked, when their obligations to their family conflict with other obligations – to friends, to society, to themselves?”

153. “What is a person to do, I asked, when their obligations to their family conflict with other obligations – to friends, to society, to themselves?”

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Tara Westover Quote: “It was difficult to imagine a man like Dad – proud, strong, physical – permanently impaired.”

154. “It was difficult to imagine a man like Dad – proud, strong, physical – permanently impaired.”

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Tara Westover Quote: “I just didn’t feel like seeing him, or hearing his voice, so I didn’t.”

155. “I just didn’t feel like seeing him, or hearing his voice, so I didn’t.”

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Tara Westover Quote: “I had to think before I could answer. “I can stand in this wind, because I’m not trying to stand in it,” I said. “The wind is just wind. You could withstand these gusts on the ground, so you can withstand them in the air. There is no difference. Except the difference you make in your head.”

156. “I had to think before I could answer. “I can stand in this wind, because I’m not trying to stand in it,” I said. “The wind is just wind. You could withstand these gusts on the ground, so you can withstand them in the air. There is no difference. Except the difference you make in your head.”

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Tara Westover Quote: “Mother never delivered lectures or administered exams. She never assigned essays. There was a computer in the basement with a program called Mavis Beacon, which gave lessons on typing.”

157. “Mother never delivered lectures or administered exams. She never assigned essays. There was a computer in the basement with a program called Mavis Beacon, which gave lessons on typing.”

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Tara Westover Quote: “No comma, no period, no adjective or adverb was beneath his interest. He made no distinction between grammar and content, between form and substance. A poorly written sentence was a poorly conceived idea, and in his view the grammatical logic was as much in need of correction. “Tell me,” he would say, “why have you placed this comma here? What relationship between these phrases are you hoping to establish?”

158. “No comma, no period, no adjective or adverb was beneath his interest. He made no distinction between grammar and content, between form and substance. A poorly written sentence was a poorly conceived idea, and in his view the grammatical logic was as much in need of correction. “Tell me,” he would say, “why have you placed this comma here? What relationship between these phrases are you hoping to establish?”

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Tara Westover Quote: “I read them to learn what to think, not how to think for myself.”

159. “I read them to learn what to think, not how to think for myself.”

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Tara Westover Quote: “I could take it all back – blame Lucifer and be given a clean slate. I imagined how esteemed I would be, as a newly cleansed vessel. How loved. All I had to do was swap my memories for theirs, and I could have my family.”

160. “I could take it all back – blame Lucifer and be given a clean slate. I imagined how esteemed I would be, as a newly cleansed vessel. How loved. All I had to do was swap my memories for theirs, and I could have my family.”

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Tara Westover Quote: “Curiosity is a luxury reserved for the financially secure: my mind was absorbed with more immediate concerns, such as the exact balance of my bank account, who I owed how much, and whether there was anything in my room I could sell for ten or twenty dollars.”

161. “Curiosity is a luxury reserved for the financially secure: my mind was absorbed with more immediate concerns, such as the exact balance of my bank account, who I owed how much, and whether there was anything in my room I could sell for ten or twenty dollars.”

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Tara Westover Quote: “I couldn’t tell him that the reason I couldn’t return to Cambridge was that being here threw into great relief every violent and degrading moment of my life.”

162. “I couldn’t tell him that the reason I couldn’t return to Cambridge was that being here threw into great relief every violent and degrading moment of my life.”

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Tara Westover Quote: “To convince myself that there was some dignity in what I planned to do, in surrendering my own perceptions of right and wrong, of reality, of sanity itself, to earn the love of my parents. For them I believed I could don armor and charge at giants, even if I saw only windmills.”

163. “To convince myself that there was some dignity in what I planned to do, in surrendering my own perceptions of right and wrong, of reality, of sanity itself, to earn the love of my parents. For them I believed I could don armor and charge at giants, even if I saw only windmills.”

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Tara Westover Quote: “I felt exposed by the elegance and yet somehow made invisible by it.”

164. “I felt exposed by the elegance and yet somehow made invisible by it.”

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Tara Westover Quote: “I left the hall the moment dessert was served. It was a relief to escape all that refinement and beauty – to be allowed to be unlovely and not a point of contrast.”

165. “I left the hall the moment dessert was served. It was a relief to escape all that refinement and beauty – to be allowed to be unlovely and not a point of contrast.”

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Tara Westover Quote: “I didn’t think I was dreaming, but only because my imagination had never produced anything so grand.”

166. “I didn’t think I was dreaming, but only because my imagination had never produced anything so grand.”

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Tara Westover Quote: “I hear of the ongoing drama on the mountain – the injuries, violence and shifting loyalties. But it comes to me now as distant hearsay, which is a gift.”

167. “I hear of the ongoing drama on the mountain – the injuries, violence and shifting loyalties. But it comes to me now as distant hearsay, which is a gift.”

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Tara Westover Quote: “Again I thought about the family. There was a puzzle in it, something unresolved. What is a person to do, I asked, when their obligations to their family conflict with other obligations – to friends, to society, to themselves?”

168. “Again I thought about the family. There was a puzzle in it, something unresolved. What is a person to do, I asked, when their obligations to their family conflict with other obligations – to friends, to society, to themselves?”

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Tara Westover Quote: “I lived alone in a quiet apartment.”

169. “I lived alone in a quiet apartment.”

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Tara Westover Quote: “Transformation. Metamorphosis. Falsity. Betrayal. I call it an education.”

170. “Transformation. Metamorphosis. Falsity. Betrayal. I call it an education.”

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Tara Westover Quote: “He said I owed him for the car. He really only mentioned it but I became crazed, hysterical. For the first time in my life, I shouted at my father – not about the car but about the Weavers. I was so suffocated by rage, my words didn’t come out as words, but as choking, sputtering sobs. Why are you like this? Why did you terrify us like that? Why did you fight so hard against made-up monsters, but do nothing about the monsters in your own house?”

171. “He said I owed him for the car. He really only mentioned it but I became crazed, hysterical. For the first time in my life, I shouted at my father – not about the car but about the Weavers. I was so suffocated by rage, my words didn’t come out as words, but as choking, sputtering sobs. Why are you like this? Why did you terrify us like that? Why did you fight so hard against made-up monsters, but do nothing about the monsters in your own house?”

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Tara Westover Quote: “I could tolerate any form of cruelty better than kindness. Praise was a poison to me; I choked on it.”

172. “I could tolerate any form of cruelty better than kindness. Praise was a poison to me; I choked on it.”

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Tara Westover Quote: “There’s no telling what kind of cavorting takes place in that theater,” he said. “It’s probably a den of adulterers and fornicators.”

173. “There’s no telling what kind of cavorting takes place in that theater,” he said. “It’s probably a den of adulterers and fornicators.”

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Tara Westover Quote: “A poorly written sentence was a poorly formed idea.”

174. “A poorly written sentence was a poorly formed idea.”

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Tara Westover Quote: “There was little hope of overpowering the history my father and sister were creating for me. Their account would claim my brothers first, then it would spread to my aunts, uncles, cousins, the whole valley. I had lost an entire kinship, and for what?”

175. “There was little hope of overpowering the history my father and sister were creating for me. Their account would claim my brothers first, then it would spread to my aunts, uncles, cousins, the whole valley. I had lost an entire kinship, and for what?”

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Tara Westover Quote: “I had always believed, that it would be me who broke the spell, who caused it to break. When the stillness shattered and his fury rushed at me, I would know that something I had done was the catalyst, the cause. There is hope in such a superstition; there is the illusion of control.”

176. “I had always believed, that it would be me who broke the spell, who caused it to break. When the stillness shattered and his fury rushed at me, I would know that something I had done was the catalyst, the cause. There is hope in such a superstition; there is the illusion of control.”

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Tara Westover Quote: “So what are Isaiah Berlin’s two concepts?” the lecturer asked. Nearly everyone raised a hand. The lecturer called on the student who had studied at Oxford. “Negative liberty,” he said, “is the freedom from external obstacles or constraints. An individual is free in this sense if they are not physically prevented from taking action.”

177. “So what are Isaiah Berlin’s two concepts?” the lecturer asked. Nearly everyone raised a hand. The lecturer called on the student who had studied at Oxford. “Negative liberty,” he said, “is the freedom from external obstacles or constraints. An individual is free in this sense if they are not physically prevented from taking action.”

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Tara Westover Quote: “The past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time.”

178. “The past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time.”

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Tara Westover Quote: “I suppose my interest came from the sense of groundlessness I’d felt since learning about the Holocaust and the civil rights movement – since realizing that what a person knows about the past is limited, and will always be limited, to what they are told by others.”

179. “I suppose my interest came from the sense of groundlessness I’d felt since learning about the Holocaust and the civil rights movement – since realizing that what a person knows about the past is limited, and will always be limited, to what they are told by others.”

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