Augusten Burroughs Quotes

  • Although I was able to maintain a pleasant expression, I was mentally throwing up in her face. <span class='nobr'></span>
  • I nodded again, but I knew I would not grow up to drive a bulldozer. It would be awful to be dirty all day like these men. I didn't say it, but at best I would keep one in the back... <span class='nobr'></span>
  • I am prone to envy. It is one of my three default emotions, the others being greed and rage. I have also experienced compassion and generosity, but only fleetingly and usually whil... <span class='nobr'></span>
  • Doctor, if being a bitch is healthy, then I am the healthiest damn woman on the face of the earth <span class='nobr'></span>
  • Just as I had long suspected, a person didn't really need math for anything anyway. Maybe some people did. Some limited people. <span class='nobr'></span>
  • It's a wonder I'm even alive. Sometimes I think that. I think that I can't believe I haven't killed myself. But there's something in me that just keeps going on. I think it has som... <span class='nobr'></span>
  • I love you," she said, and I knew she meant it because she spoke the words from the heart at the center of her chest. This, at least, had not been left behind at the hospital. <span class='nobr'></span>
  • Long marriages have ended in ruin over tiny and insignificant grievances that were never properly aired and instead grew into a brittle barnacle of hatred. <span class='nobr'></span>
  • When you say, "I need more confidence," what you're really saying is, "I need those people over there to approve of me." That is the desire to control other peo... <span class='nobr'></span>
  • It is always safe to see yourself truthfully. You never have to be ashamed of yourself, with yourself. <span class='nobr'></span>
  • If you believe suicide will bring you peace, or at the very least just an end to everything you hate- you are displaying self-caring behavior. You are still able to actively seek s... <span class='nobr'></span>
Although I was able to maintain a pleasant expression, I was mentally throwing up in her face.

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