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“You would be amazed by what you can give up, lose, or break, and yet still be a person who gets happy over brownies.”

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“He was raised without a proper diagnosis.”

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Augusten Burroughs livre Running with Scissors

Source: Running with Scissors

“It turned out I had always been a smoker. I just hadn't had any cigarettes.”

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Augusten Burroughs livre Running with Scissors

Source: Running with Scissors

“Nothing made sense to me anymore. I knew I was young, I knew I was small. But I was worried that I might already be ruined.”

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Augusten Burroughs livre A Wolf at the Table

Source: A Wolf at the Table

“Fact: upon locking yourself our of your apartment you will immediately need to use the bathroom. Fact: and then you will stand in place and watch your door. You will just stare. As though rebuffed by it. As though it has done this to you.”

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Augusten Burroughs Possible Side Effects

Source: Possible Side Effects

“Bad news should be followed with soup. Then a nap.”

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Source: This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.

“Tracy, the leader of the CDH group, looks at me with eyes that seem to belong to someone three times her age. It's something beyond wisdom, all the way to insanity and back. It's like her eyes are scarred from all the things she's seen.”

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Augusten Burroughs livre Dry

Source: Dry

“His laugh is made if porch swings and lemonade”

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Augusten Burroughs livre Dry

Source: Dry

“You cannot be a prisoner of your past against your will. Because you can only live in the past inside your mind.”

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Source: This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.

“Sometimes when you work in advertising you'll get a product that's really garbage and you have to make it seem fantastic, something that is essential to the continued quality of life.”

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Augusten Burroughs livre Dry

Source: Dry

“Imperfections are attractive when their owners are happy with them.”

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Source: This Is How: Surviving What You Think You Can't

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

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Augusten Burroughs livre Running with Scissors

Source: Running with Scissors

“We haven't slept together. But we've napped”

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Augusten Burroughs livre Dry

Source: Dry

“You have an incredible body." He reaches out to touch my stomach. I feel no pleasure in his compliment or his touch, only impatience. This is the only feeling. I feel like the paper on which my mood chart is printed.”

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Augusten Burroughs livre Dry

Source: Dry

“And I hope she does not live in a dark world. Because even the most terrible loss doesn't have to make you darker; it can make you deeper.”

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Augusten Burroughs

Source: This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.

“The most I would do was use the shadow tool in Photoshop to bring out the muscular rips in my stomach, which were honestly there. Beneath the fat.”

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Augusten Burroughs Possible Side Effects

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“My attraction had been immediate and profound. And it had nothing to do with the way he looked. My attraction was to what resided between his lines.”

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Augusten Burroughs livre You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas

Source: You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas

“It was not uncommon to walk in the door of their home and find my mother sitting on the sofa reading over a manuscript with shampoo horns sculpted into her hair. Anne Sexton's voice would be blasting from the speakers.”

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Augusten Burroughs livre Running with Scissors

Source: Running with Scissors