Emily Barr Quotes

#1. I have woken up inside one of my own memories. I am really here, yet I know I am not.

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#2. I am really here. Yet I know I am not. I am inside something that must be buried in my head. I am layers deep in my own brain.

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#3. I put a row of toys on the bed. A brown-haired Barbie doll, then a Lego ambulance...then a gray Buckbeak the Hippogriff.

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#4. The inside of my head is out of control. It is on fire. It is snowing. It is a wild jungle. It is an Arctic wilderness. It is everything that has ever happened and everything that ever will happen, all at once.

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#5. Don't panic, because everything is probably all right, and it it's not, panicking will make it worse.

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#6. I want to see how I can exist by myself. I want to be allowed to live inside my memory.

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#7. Although I don't know much about anything, I know that I have a story. I know that it is not over. There are shades and shadows of adventures and people and wild new places. Whatever Paris might turn out to be, and whatever Dr. Epstein is able to do, I want to be there to find out.

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