Mira Bartok Quotes

• 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, an intangible, ephemeral blur.

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  Memories, Wings, Brain

  Mira Bartok (2011). “The Memory Palace”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Memories, Brain, Different

  Mira Bartok (2011). “The Memory Palace: A Memoir”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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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 grandfather told me to stand still outside and hold her leash tight. Then he shot a gun off by our feet, several times. "This is how girls learn to obey," he said, "how to be seen and not heard."

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  Girl, Dog, Bullying

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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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  Children, Thinking, Secret

  Mira Bartok (2011). “The Memory Palace”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Los hijos de enfermos mentales aprenden pronto a no molestar, sobre todo si han crecido en un ambiente de abandono. Como insistió una vez mi hermana, cuando sufría un fuerte dolor tras hacerse daño en el tobillo: "¡Yo no soy así! ¡Yo no soy así!

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  Children, Pain, Who I Am

  Mira Bartok (2011). “The Memory Palace: A Memoir”, p.266, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Helping, Mental Health, Illness

  Mira Bartok (2011). “The Memory Palace”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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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: to love and live fully, to be curious about all things, and to live a compassionate - and passionate - authentic life.

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  Moving, Passionate, Why We Are Here

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• Who am I, then, if my memory is impaired?

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  Memories, Ifs

  Mira Bartok (2011). “The Memory Palace: A Memoir”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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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 primal of relationships, the one between mother and child. I dare you to read this book without crying.

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  Madre, Hijos, Libro

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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, physical and psychic hardship, and loss.

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  Mean, Loss, Psychics

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