Mira Bartok Quotes
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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 got her, my…
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We humans are different - our brains are built not to fix memories in stone but rather to transform them, our recollections in their retelling.
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I felt held hostage by her illness and by the backward mental health system that once again was incapable of helping our family in crisis.
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We children of schizophrenics are the great secret keepers, the ones who don't want you to think that anything is wrong.
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Some of my old memories feel trapped in amber in my brain, lucid and burning, while others are like the wing beat of a hummingbird,…
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Children of the mentally ill learn early on how not to be a bother, especially if they grew up with neglect. As my sister insisted…
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Who am I, then, if my memory is impaired?
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Candid and searing, Deborah Jiang Stein’s memoir is a remarkable story about identity, lost and found, and about the author’s journey to reclaim—and celebrate—that most…
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Cheryl Strayed reminds us, in her lyrical and courageous memoir Wild, of what it means to be fully alive, even in the face of catastrophe,…
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Eloquent and moving... an extraordinary testament to the enduring power of love - beyond faith and dogma. It reminds us of why we are here:…
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