Mother Quotes by Augusten Burroughs

Other people sound flat to my ear; their words just hang in the air. But when my mother says something, the ends…

— Augusten Burroughs

My mother began to go crazy. Not in a 'Let's paint the kitchen red!' sort of way. But crazy in a 'gas…

— Augusten Burroughs

My mother is from Cairo, Georgia. This makes everything she says sound like it went through a curling iron.

— Augusten Burroughs

“Turn off the light," she says as she walks away, creating a small woosh that smells sweet and chemical. It makes me…

— Augusten Burroughs

I couldn't help but think, This car is taking me to a mental hospital and my mother is treating it like open-mic…

— Augusten Burroughs

“It was not uncommon to walk in the door of their home and find my mother sitting on the sofa reading over…

— Augusten Burroughs

My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of…

— Augusten Burroughs

“My mother is from Cairo, Georgia. This makes everything she says sound like it went through a curling iron. Other people sound…

— Augusten Burroughs

I told myself, 'All I want is a normal life'. But was that true? I wasn't so sure. Because there was a…

— Augusten Burroughs

Each time my mother went psychotic, I hoped it would be the last time. Afterward she would tell me, 'I think that…

— Augusten Burroughs

“Dorothy viewed my mother's propensity toward madness not as something to be afraid of, but rather as something to look forward to,…

— Augusten Burroughs

I gazed around the room and my eyes stopped dead on a little boy standing in the corner. This was a particularly…

— Augusten Burroughs