# All My Knotted-Up Life

## Metadata
- Author: [[Beth Moore]]
- Full Title: All My Knotted-Up Life
- Category: #books
## Highlights
- Mind you, for those who have lived past third grade, there’s no real starting over from scratch. There’s just starting over scratched—and if the hurts clawed deep enough, scarred. But for those who resist insisting on idyllic circumstances and faultless people, new beginnings can be had. ([Location 1261](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0B57GSPPR&location=1261))
- Mom found it understandably awkward and soon offered to start taking me and picking me up herself. I kept thinking, Any week now she’s going to say, “Well, I will just go in with you,” but she never did. I think she knew Dad would have jumped back in immediately and gotten involved up to his neck, and she’d lost her tolerance for hypocrisy. ([Location 1326](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0B57GSPPR&location=1326))