Curiosity is a luxury reserved for the financially secure. - Tara Westover

That’s all that was left of the life I’d had here: a puzzle whose rules I would never understand, because they were not rules at all but a kind of cage meant to enclose me. I could stay, and search for what had been home, or I could go, now, before the walls shifted and the way out was shut.

I decided to experiment with normality.

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