{"author":"Mira Bartok","author_id":"Mira+Bartok","total_quotes":8,"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"Mira Bartok","tags":["crisis","hostage","mental-health"],"id":76139,"author_id":"Mira+Bartok"},{"text":"We humans are different - our brains are built not to fix memories in stone but rather to transform them, our recollections in their retelling.","author":"Mira Bartok","tags":["brain","memories"],"id":111944,"author_id":"Mira+Bartok"},{"text":"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.","author":"Mira Bartok","tags":["memories","memory"],"id":208994,"author_id":"Mira+Bartok"},{"text":"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.","author":"Mira Bartok","tags":["amber","hummingbird","memory"],"id":233302,"author_id":"Mira+Bartok"},{"text":"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!","author":"Mira Bartok","tags":["children","coping","family","loss","memories","mental-illness","neglect","pain"],"id":240095,"author_id":"Mira+Bartok"},{"text":"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.","author":"Mira Bartok","tags":["crisis","family","fear","loss","mental-illness","safety"],"id":269638,"author_id":"Mira+Bartok"},{"text":"We children of schizophrenics are the great secret keepers, the ones who don't want you to think that anything is wrong.","author":"Mira Bartok","tags":["schizophrenia","secrets"],"id":310246,"author_id":"Mira+Bartok"},{"text":"Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist Eric Kandel says we are who we are because of what we learn and what we remember. Who am I, then, if my memory is impaired?","author":"Mira Bartok","tags":["memory","memory-loss","mental-illness"],"id":435976,"author_id":"Mira+Bartok"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":8,"pages":1}}