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Kelly Barnhill is a talented author born in 1973. Her works are known for their imaginative storytelling and emotional depth.

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“How can I ever know what my mother meant? Even now, after all these years, she is a memory of a memory of a memory. Her own kind of unsolvable, inscrutable knot.”

Book:When Women Were Dragons

Source: When Women Were Dragons

“I have stored these memories the way any child stores memory--a haphazard collection of sharp, bright objects socked away on the darkest shelves in the dustiest corners of our mental filing systems. They stay there, those memories, rattling in the dark. Scratching at the walls. Disrupting our careful ordering of what we think is true. And injuring us when we forget how dangerous they are, and we grasp too hard.”

Childhood Memory Trauama

Book:When Women Were Dragons

Source: When Women Were Dragons

“The memory of her vanishing felt both unpleasant to encounter and dangerous to hold, but I had no place to put it, no ordered shelf in my mind where it belonged. It remained unmentionable and therefore unclassifiable, which meant I had to carry it, every day, no matter how much it hurt.”

Childhood Memory Trauma

Book:When Women Were Dragons

Source: When Women Were Dragons

“I won't forget," she said "You will surely forget, Xan. Have you not met yourself?”

Memory Xan Lost Memory

Book:The Girl Who Drank the Moon

Source: The Girl Who Drank the Moon

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Born: 1973
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Quotes: 46

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