Educated

"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."

"You can love someone and still choose to say goodbye to them. You can miss a person every day, and still be glad that they are no longer in your life."

"I began to experience the most powerful advantage of money: the ability to think of things besides money."

"The skill I was learning was a crucial one, the patience to read things I could not yet understand."

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