Educated

given expression. If it was not expressed in his voice, I would need to express it in mine. I don’t remember leaving the clock t ...

Each time I glanced at him, I felt that old instinct at work in me, tensing my muscles, preparing me to take flight. I left the ...

images that came to mind were of that girl, in the bathroom, in the parking lot. I couldn’t tell Dr. Kerry about that girl. I co ...

29 Graduation The program ended and I returned to BYU. Campus looked the way it always had, and it would have been easy to forge ...

depend on my husband’s righteousness: the more nobly he lived, the more wives he would be given. I had never made my peace with ...

fallen in love and was to be married, but she left her fiancé in Norway and crossed the ocean. Her mother died before she reache ...

him three mains would be enough, but he winked and said money was not a problem. It seemed the news of my father’s miraculous he ...

Dad looked at me, waiting for me to give an opinion, but I felt alienated from myself. I didn’t know who to be. On the mountain ...

I didn’t know why I couldn’t tell them. I just couldn’t stand the thought of people patting me on the back, telling me how impre ...

I apologized. “He can say whatever he wants. But please come.” They missed most of the ceremony; I don’t know if they saw me acc ...

PART THREE ...

30 Hand of the Almighty A stone gate barred the entrance to Trinity College. Cut into the gate was a small wooden door. I steppe ...

The lecturer began his presentation. He spoke calmly but moved through the material quickly, as if he assumed we were already fa ...

“How fast does energy travel?” I asked. “At the speed of sound, or is it more like a jetliner? Does it fly direct, or will it ha ...

street and into a café. The cashier was impatient so I chose at random. She passed me a doll-sized cup with a tablespoon of mud- ...

Stuart Mill that, when I read it, moved the world: “It is a subject on which nothing final can be known.” The subject Mill had i ...

Mother’s oils, they had offered to buy her out for an astonishing three million dollars. My parents hadn’t even considered it. H ...

about the colts he expected in the spring, and I remembered that he was always at his best when he was with his horses. I had be ...

why Richard was pacing, or why he paused every few seconds to glance at Dad, waiting for a word or gesture—any signal of what sh ...

and reached out for Emily. She clung to him. Dad stood. He motioned for Shawn to take the seat next to Emily. I stood and went t ...