Emily Barr Quotes & Sayings

Time is a random thing. It is the thing that makes us older. Humans use it to organize the world. They have invented a system to try to make order from randomness. The other humans, all of them but me, live their lives by hours and minutes and days and seconds, but those things are nothing. The universe would laugh at our attempts to organize it, if it could be bothered to notice them.
Time is the thing that makes our bodies shrivel and decay. That is why people are scared of it. — Emily Barr

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. — Emily Barr

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

I want to see how I can exist by myself. I want to be allowed to live inside my memory. — Emily Barr

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. — Emily Barr

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

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. — Emily Barr

I have woken up inside one of my own memories. I am really here, yet I know I am not. — Emily Barr