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KM 1: Tyler tells the family that he wants to go to college (chapter5)

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KM 1: Tyler tells the family that he wants to go to college (chapter5)

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“I’m g-g-going to college” Tyler page 50

“College is extra school for people too dumb to learn the first time around” Gene page 50

“How can you support a wife and children with books?” Gene page 52

“You don’t think the illuminati have infiltrated the church?” gene page 52

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KM2: Tara tells Gene that she wants to go to college

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KM2: Tara tells Gene that she wants to go to college

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"I want to go to school" ~Tara pg79
"I've prayed and I want to go" ~Tara pg79
"In this family, we obey the commandments of the Lord" ~Gene pg79
"You remember Jacob and Esau?" ~ Gene pg79
"It meant that I was not the daughter he had raised, the daughter of faith" ~Tara pg79

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“People said he was trouble, a bully, a bad egg”-Tara p113

“I could scarcely move, scarcely breathe, without breaking my own wrist”-Tara p129

“This moment would define my memory of that night, and of the many nights like it, for a decade” -Tara p130

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KM 4: Tyler encourages Tara to take the ACT

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KM 4: Tyler encourages Tara to take the ACT

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'The longer you stay the less likely you will ever leave' - Tyler

'I think this is the worst possible place for you' - Tyler

'BYU takes homeschoolers' - Tyler

'I won't get in. "You will," he said.' - Tara

'I woke up every morning at six to study' - Tara

Tara passes her ACT and is accpeted to BYU:

'Our homeschool is as good as any public education' Gene pg174

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KM 6: Tara applies for government grants

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KM 6: Tara applies for government grants

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“Apply for the grant! You’re poor!” - the bishop, pg237
“I pictured the returns sitting in the large grey filing cabinet in the kitchen. Then I decided to steal them” - Tara, pg237
“I tore open the envelope and a check fell onto my bed. For four thousand dollars.” -Tara pg238

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KM 7: Tara finds out the truth about Ruby Ridge 

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KM 7: Tara finds out the truth about Ruby Ridge 

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"Randy weaver was alive. Did Dad know?"
"For thirteen years, I'd assumed this was why the Government had come for Randy: to force his children into school"
"It had ceased to be a story about someone else and had become a story about him."
"I only felt anger"
"For the first time in my life I shouted at my father- not about the car, but about the Weavers"
"I did not speak to my father, not even on the phone."
" I just didn't feel like seeing him, or hearing his voice, so I didn't."

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"I was the third BYU student ever to win a Gates scholarship"
- Tara pg288
" I didnt tell a single reporter that I'd never gone to school"
-Tara pg288
"You didnt mention homeschool. ......... You should be telling people that’s what done it: homeschool."
- Gene pg289

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"I might be accepted to Cambridge for a PhD" -Tara pg308

"I had just learned that I'd won a place at Cambridge to study for a PhD" -Tara pg316

"I did not want to go home. I preferred the family I had chosen to the one I had been given." -Tara pg324

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KM 10: Tara receives an email from her mother

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KM 10: Tara receives an email from her mother

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"We can rewrite this story" - Faye, p. 313

"You were my child. I should have protected you." - Faye, p. 314

"I told your father what you and your sister said. Shawn will get help."- Faye, p. 314

"I told her our parents had changed and we should trust them." Tara,
p. 322

"I realised she would not speak, that she would sit there and say nothing" - Tara,
p. 329

"Mother had lied." - Tara, p.334

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“I told Shawn what you said. He is coming” - Gene pg 330

“If you’re smart, Siddle Lister, you’ll use this on yourself. Because it will be better than what I’ll do to you if you don’t” - Shawn pg 331

“That’s uncalled for,” - Faye pg 331

“I told Shawn I hadn’t said anything to Dad”- Tara pg 332

“It was a knife of rage” - Tara pg 334

“Dad had never promised to help me and Audrey. Mother had lied” Tara pg 334

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KM 12: Tara refuses blessing from Gene at Harvard.

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KM 12: Tara refuses blessing from Gene at Harvard.

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"I heard myself say no" -Tara pg348

"It was his opinion i cared about, he was the one i was losing" -Tara pg348

"What my father wanted to cast from me wasn't a demon, it was me"- Tara pg350

"everything i had worked for, all my years of study, had been to purchase for myself this one privilege: to see and experience more truths than those given to me by my father, and to use those truths to construct my own mind."- Tara pg350

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I accepted, finally, I had made the decision for my own sake” ~Tara pg 376
" Having sacrificed my family to my education, I might lose that also" pg 353
“I love you, you know that?” - Gene oh 357

“I am not the child my father raised, but he is the father who raised her” -Tara p376

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“You could call this selfhood many things. Transformation. Metamorphosis. Falsity. Betrayal. I call it an education.” - Tara, p.377

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"Richard takes one look at my face, streaked with grease and tears, and knows something is wrong; Dad sees nothing" pg 226

"My humiliation was the cause of that pleasure. It was not an accident or side effect. It was the objective" pg227

"I do something I have never done before: I write what happened" pg227

"That event would change everything... somewhere inside that brittle shell-in that girl made vacant by the fiction of invincibility-there was a spark left" pg 228

"I don't know. I just don't know" pg 228

My life was narrated for me by others... it had never occurred to me that my voice might be as strong as theirs" pg 229