When I first thought of being a writer I had visions of stacks of books in stores with my name on them,… — Augusten Burroughs Book Copy Share Image
“Having one's mother or father or past abuser admit to their crimes or even apologize for them changes nothing--certainly not what they… — Augusten Burroughs Abuse-recovery Copy Share Image
I'll always write about what's going on in my life and the reason for that is it's not actually because I'm so… — Augusten Burroughs Because i can Copy Share Image
“It wasn't like he was holding me so much as trying to hold onto something.” — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Not crazy in a 'let's paint the kitchen bright red!' sort of way. But crazy in a 'gas oven, toothpaste sandwich, I… — Augusten Burroughs Candle Copy Share Image
Each time my mother went psychotic, I hoped it would be the last time. Afterward she would tell me, 'I think that… — Augusten Burroughs Believe Copy Share Image
“eath, when it finally arrives, does so in a surprising fashion: it adds nothing to the room, not a light or a… — Augusten Burroughs Death Copy Share Image
I tend to really enjoy being swept up in fiction. I love a good story and I admire fiction authors. — Augusten Burroughs Admire Copy Share Image
If you find you require willpower, you aren't ready to lose weight. — Augusten Burroughs Discipline Copy Share Image
Other people sound flat to my ear; their words just hang in the air. But when my mother says something, the ends… — Augusten Burroughs Air Copy Share Image
“I think…Have I given up anything by living with another person? Has there been a trade-off? Always, there is a trade-off. And… — Augusten Burroughs Freedom Copy Share Image
“he already knew how horrible I could be, yet he loved me, anyway.” — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Just as I had long suspected, a person didn't really need math for anything anyway. Maybe some people did. Some limited people. — Augusten Burroughs Long Copy Share Image
I've overcome a lot - sexual abuse, death of a loved one, bad parents and experienced life. My nature is such I… — Augusten Burroughs Abuse Copy Share Image
I came to think that maybe God was what you believed in because you needed to feel you weren’t alone. Maybe God… — Augusten Burroughs Feels Copy Share Image
[Christmas] holidays are a heavy, heavy time. We make light of them with our red and green and our stockings and candy… — Augusten Burroughs About family Copy Share Image
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 Car Copy Share Image
Acceptance, when it comes, arrives in waves: Listen with your chest. You will feel a pendulum swing within you, favoring one direction… — Augusten Burroughs Acceptance Copy Share Image
I hate news and information and anything that threatens to puncture the bubble of oblivion in which I live. — Augusten Burroughs Bubbles Copy Share Image
I could write another collection of personal essays from what has happened to me in the last year alone. I don't seek… — Augusten Burroughs Collections Copy Share Image
“I had always had the oddest feeling, consider it knowledge, that if I were ever to find myself inside the cockpit of… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
I am prone to envy. It is one of my three default emotions, the others being greed and rage. I have also… — Augusten Burroughs Compassion Copy Share Image
“Give me down. And give me the Polaroids of the fifty geese that had to die in the process.” — Augusten Burroughs Humor Copy Share Image
“we were particles that came together to form into star after star after star until almost forever passed, and instead of a… — Augusten Burroughs Astronomy Copy Share Image
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