Unveiling Emotions Through The Passage Of Time.

Question : Educated starts with an epigraph by Virginia Woolf: “The past is beautiful because one never realizes an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only the past.” What do you think Woolf meant by this? Why do you think Tara Westover chose to begin her memoir this way? Do you agree with the quote?