

“You can love someone and still choose to say goodbye to them,” she says now. “You can miss a person every day, and still be glad that they are no longer in your life.”
― Educated
― Educated

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

“It’s strange how you give the people you love so much power over you.”
― Educated
― Educated
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