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Luke Westover
Tara’s paternal grandmother. As her nickname suggests, she lives just down the hill from Gene’s family—but opposes the way her grandchildren are being raised, believing that they should be in school instead of “roaming the mountain like savages.” Grandma-down-the-hill and Grandpa-down-the-hill spend the difficult winter months in Arizona, and once even offer to bring Tara with them so that she can live a normal life and attend school, but Tara is too fearful to accept her grandparents’ offer. Nevertheless, Grandma and Grandpa-down-the-hill host the Westover clan at their Arizona home and maintain a close relationship with them—even though they often question Gene’s methods in raising his children.
Grandma-down-the-hill Quotes in Educated
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Chapter 4
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Dad had always believed passionately in Mother’s herbs, but that night felt different, like something inside him was shifting, a new creed taking hold. Herbalism, he said, was a spiritual doctrine that separated the wheat from the tares, the faithful from the faithless. Then he used a word I’d never heard before: Illuminati. It sounded exotic, powerful, whatever it was. Grandma, he said, was an unknowing agent of the Illuminati.
God couldn’t abide faithlessness, Dad said. That’s why the most hateful sinners were those who wouldn’t make up their minds, who used herbs and medication both, who came to Mother on Wednesday and saw their doctor on Friday—or, as Dad put it, “Who worship at the altar of God one day and offer a sacrifice to Satan the next.” These people were like the ancient Israelites because they’d been given a true religion but hankered after false idols.
“Doctors and pills,” Dad said, nearly shouting. “That’s their god, and they whore after it.”
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Grandma-down-the-hill Quotes in Educated
The Educated quotes below are all either spoken by Grandma-down-the-hill or refer to Grandma-down-the-hill. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 4
Quotes
Dad had always believed passionately in Mother’s herbs, but that night felt different, like something inside him was shifting, a new creed taking hold. Herbalism, he said, was a spiritual doctrine that separated the wheat from the tares, the faithful from the faithless. Then he used a word I’d never heard before: Illuminati. It sounded exotic, powerful, whatever it was. Grandma, he said, was an unknowing agent of the Illuminati.
God couldn’t abide faithlessness, Dad said. That’s why the most hateful sinners were those who wouldn’t make up their minds, who used herbs and medication both, who came to Mother on Wednesday and saw their doctor on Friday—or, as Dad put it, “Who worship at the altar of God one day and offer a sacrifice to Satan the next.” These people were like the ancient Israelites because they’d been given a true religion but hankered after false idols.
“Doctors and pills,” Dad said, nearly shouting. “That’s their god, and they whore after it.”
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