Some of my old memories feel trapped in amber in my brain, lucid and burning, while others are like the wing beat… — Mira Bartok Amber Copy Share Image
“What will life be like without her? I am dreadfully sad she is leaving. What if she just disappears; gets tired of… — Mira Bartok Abandonment Copy Share Image
We humans are different - our brains are built not to fix memories in stone but rather to transform them, our recollections… — Mira Bartok Brain Copy Share Image
Eloquent and moving... an extraordinary testament to the enduring power of love - beyond faith and dogma. It reminds us of why… — Mira Bartok All things Copy Share Image
Children of the mentally ill learn early on how not to be a bother, especially if they grew up with neglect. As… — Mira Bartok Ankles Copy Share Image
“At the bottom of the box were two big fairy-tale collections our father had sent us sometime after our parents divorced in… — Mira Bartok Fairy tale Copy Share Image
“He [Nicolaus Steno] told the audience, "Beautiful is what we see. More beautiful is what we understand. Most beautiful is what we… — Mira Bartok Beauty Copy Share Image
“Beautiful is what we see. More beautiful is what we understand. Most beautiful is what we do comprehend.” — Mira Bartok Beauty Copy Share Image
We children of schizophrenics are the great secret keepers, the ones who don't want you to think that anything is wrong. — Mira Bartok Children Copy Share Image
Candid and searing, Deborah Jiang Stein’s memoir is a remarkable story about identity, lost and found, and about the author’s journey to… — Mira Bartok Book Copy Share Image
“Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist Eric Kandel says we are who we are because of what we learn and what we remember. Who am… — Mira Bartok Memory Copy Share Image
I felt held hostage by her illness and by the backward mental health system that once again was incapable of helping our… — Mira Bartok Crisis Copy Share Image
My dog, Ginger, is jumpy-like me-sensitive to sound and sudden movement. She wasn't that way at first, but not long after we… — Mira Bartok Bullying Copy Share Image
“I don't want to be the person who gasps in fear whenever she hears the sound of a doorbell or a phone.… — Mira Bartok Crisis Copy Share Image
Cheryl Strayed reminds us, in her lyrical and courageous memoir Wild, of what it means to be fully alive, even in the… — Mira Bartok Alive Copy Share Image
