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Mother Quotes by Augusten Burroughs
- Each time my mother went psychotic, I hoped it would be the last time. Afterward she would tell me, 'I think that was the final…
- My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of physical abuse -…
- My mother began to go crazy. Not in a 'Let's paint the kitchen red!' sort of way. But crazy in a 'gas oven, toothpaste sandwhich,…
- I couldn't help but think, This car is taking me to a mental hospital and my mother is treating it like open-mic night at a…
- I told myself, 'All I want is a normal life'. But was that true? I wasn't so sure. Because there was a part of me…
- My mother is from Cairo, Georgia. This makes everything she says sound like it went through a curling iron.
- I gazed around the room and my eyes stopped dead on a little boy standing in the corner. This was a particularly eerie doll. Life-sized…
- Other people sound flat to my ear; their words just hang in the air. But when my mother says something, the ends curl.
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