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
Related When I was growing up, I wanted to be my half-sister Lucy. She was 14 years older than me and was im... EMILIA FOX My mother, who grew up in Pennsylvania, literally washed my mouth out with soap once for saying, ... JOHN PIPER I am not mentally ill, I AM mentally well. I am not mentally handicapped, I AM more and less mentall... JOHN RICHARD COWGILL I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me... ZOOEY DESCHANEL When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime for her more than she is to me? MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Early in last season, George was very worried about other people's emotions, especially how they... ELLEN MUTH After all, Betty was ill and she was her sister, and she wouldn't be able to shave her legs for week... EVA IBBOTSON I have a sister who is Elizabeth. If my sister was waiting in traffic, she wouldn't say she waited f... KELLY BUTLER One sister for sale, One sister for sale, One crying and spying young sister for sale SHEL SILVERSTEIN My sister Emily first declined. The details of her illness are deep-branded in my memory, but to dwe... CHARLOTTE BRONTë [How it ended: When Amy sent her friend Christmas cards in 2001 and 2002 and didn't hear back, she d... AMY WILSON Her ankle braces have caused her to develop this interesting run where she appears to be punching do... AMBER HALL What do we say to a guest who forgets her umbrella? Do we run after her and say "What is the matter ... HAIM G. GINOTT -Paint- My girlfriend is so besotted that she can't take her eyes off me. After we've tur... DAN RHODES I am especially grateful for the memory of my grandmother, Maria Petrovna, who was the family's good... ANDREI SAKHAROV My dad once told me life would get complicated when I grew up. I’m guessing this isn’t what he m... SUSAN EE I do not mourn the loss of my sister because she will always be with me, in my heart," she says. "I ... ERIN MORGENSTERN We are just two lost souls looking for someone to love and understand us for who we really are at th... KAREN KOSTYLA It was as if she was a dream, like London, which he could not entirely grasp and of which he was not... SARA SHERIDAN With the passing of time, she would slowly tire of this exercise. She would find it increasingly exh... KHALED HOSSEINI My sister knows how to love my children as if they were her own, only she’s better at it, because ... DEE SHIHADY My daughter Mira's first media experience was with the first-generation iPad more than five year... RANEY ARONSON-RATH I've been living a nightmare, worrying if she is hurt or ill. There is no one I hold closer to my he... KATIE CARROLL My wife is a writer. She grew up in Alaska. She told me she was moving to Boulder and that I could c... BRAD FELD Mom spent the time that she was supposed to be a kid actully raising children, her younger brother a... CHRIS CHRISTIE She had been his patient for over 20 years. An elderly woman with severe arthritis, she had been the... STEPHEN KLIEWER After you married, Crispin, she said, my heart was broken. I will not deny it. But I did not slip in... MARY BALOGH A woman in her thirties came to see me. As she greeted me, I could sense the pain behind her polite ... ECKHART TOLLE I'm really close to my mother. She sacrificed a lot for me and my sister. She gave up her career... RANBIR KAPOOR There was a patient who sat with her family in a circle around her, all holding hands. Sister Philom... RACHEL JOYCE How did I love her? Let me count the ways. The freckles on her nose like the shadow of a s... LAUREN OLIVER Unlike a movie, you kind of learn things about yourself every week, ... When you get a new script, y... ANNABELLA SCIORRA I was a regular hand when I was 7. I picked cotton. I drove tractors. Children grew up not thinking ... B. B. KING It seems like she grew up speaking Yiddish. It's really part of her life, like if she did not do thi... HANKUS NETSKY This was the first time I thought of S— that day. Her music was beautiful, her voice was beautiful... ROMAN PAYNE A nod at Beatrice who held absolutely still. "She said she would come with me. She insisted on it. S... METTE IVIE HARRISON The Old Woman and the Physician
An old woman having lost the use of her eyes, called in a Physician ... AESOP She plays with her emotions on her sleeve, she's going to yell every once in a while. But her being ... MARQUETTE BURGESS And how different her face looked the first time she really liked a boy who was not on a poster on h... STEPHEN CHBOSKY My reflections amount to a love story that is mostly made up, from memories that are mostly false, b... OLIVIA SUDJIC The Olinka girls do not believe girls should be educated. When I asked a mother why she thought this... ALICE WALKER Josh turns to me. “I can’t believe she’s writing these things.” “Not she,” I say. “Me.... JAY ASHER Was she mentally ill? Yes? Does this rise to the level of insanity? No. All they are giving you is a... BILL DOBIYANSKI But as I stood watching her, I realized how truly hard it was,really, to see someone you love change... SARAH DESSEN This is someone we approached and talked to, and after we engaged in conversation with her, she beca... BILL WARREN The doctor is with her now. She was not feeling well after inspection this morning. She was a bit we... OZREN MUELLER Flo especially took me in hand. When I felt I had to prove the existence of discrimination with stat... GLORIA STEINEM Teams learn how to win when they're not playing well and this team did that against Oklahoma. It's a... BILL SELF My sister was an amazing woman who had made decisions her entire life, and she deserved to make this... JOELLYN SCHULTZ This was not how she’d envisioned the day going when she got up this morning and made that bargain... JILL SHALVIS True Love has many forms. But my true love is her...and her name is B.D.C she is an amazing girl who... MICHAEL HENDERSON When I had her as a teacher all of the kids in her class ended up calling her mom. She had this way ... JENNIFER WOOD In the end, though, I did not kill my sister. She did it all on her own. Or at least thi... JODI PICOULT I am going to die of love....daroga....I am dying of love .... That's how it is... I loved her so! A... GASTON LEROUX There was no one to be seen so she gave in freely to her sobs as she made her way home, pressed her ... JOHN AJVIDE LINDQVIST I had called her up a couple of weeks before then, because I had heard this vicious rumour that she ... CHARLIZE THERON When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels. My sister be... DOROTHY ALLISON I think that every young person is a little mentally ill, you know? If we're not totally shuttin... GABY HOFFMANN So this is going to be drill!? DEYTH BANGER I was lost; I could not understand a word that was coming out of that lady's mouth. So I kept on say... ERICK SIQUEIRA I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was... PAULO COELHO She was nine when she came in, and we had her several months. Her home life was not the best. She wa... 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It doesn't bother me. A lot of them are young guys, first year. I am j... BILL WHITE Hannah expected this to make her sob even more, but instead she found her tears drying up and her tu... STEPHEN M. IRWIN Five sisters. That must have been hell." "Only when they forced me to dress up like a girl and ... AMY MCAULEY You don't know what it's like to grow up with a mother who never said a positive thing in her life, ... JUNOT DíAZ She recalled how Pauline had fallen off a bus one night, late, went skidding into Creedmoor. In a no... ALICE MCDERMOTT I decided early that I would be a writer when I grew up. That, I thought, was the profession that we... ARIEL LEVY I like to be with my children - not just quality time, but quantity time. I like to be there in the ... JANE KACZMAREK My first female lover was a Jewish woman. She was butch, but not in a swaggering macho way- she coul... LAWRENCE SCHIMEL For Liesel Meminger, the early stages of 1942 could be summed up like this: She became thirteen... MARKUS ZUSAK I was not expecting my sister to ask me to be her best man. I was so honored. BRAD GORESKI was very fun to be around. She liked movies, and her brother Frank made her tapes of this great musi... STEPHEN CHBOSKY How could she not be happy? She was tall, thin, gorgeous and rich, rich, rich, with a husband who di... JOAN RIVERS From an early age I set myself above the monstrous fantasies of religion, being perfectly convinced ... MARQUIS DE SADE Morales has already spent more time in the safety of 'Death Row' than my sister was allowed to spend... BRIAN CHALK And when she started becoming a “young lady,” and no one was allowed to look at her because she ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Meeting her sharp glance, which was as sharp as ever when she asked me, I could not on that short ch... CHARLES DICKENS How could she just leave me here to live without her? I miss her so much. I love her. I want her to ... AVA DELLAIRA Jessie's family I had known because they had been in the arts world with her older sister for years.... PATTY GAIR When she asked what my father taught me, I told her I couldn't put it into words. But then I lay awa... PETER GEYE Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to ... CARL SAGAN Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to ... DR. CARL SAGAN My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damo... NATASCHA MCELHONE
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