Mira Bartok said this quote

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 once, when she was in severe pain after injuring her ankle, 'This isn't me! This is not who I am!

~ Mira Bartok

I don't want to be the person who gasps in fear whenever she hears the sound of a doorbell or a phone. I just want to lose myself in these hills, in the river winding west to the city of bridges.

~ Mira Bartok

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.

~ Mira Bartok

We humans are different--our brains are built not to fix memories in stone but rather to transform them. Our recollections change in their retelling.

~ Mira Bartok