“I'm lonely. And I'm lonely in some horribly deep way and for a flash of an instant, I can see just how lonely, and how deep this feeling runs. And it scares the shit out of me to be this lonely because it seems catastrophic.”
― Augusten Burroughs, quote from Dry
“I think I love him, but I also think that you can love people who aren't good for you.”
― Augusten Burroughs, quote from Dry
“Like cubic zirconia, I only look real. I'm an imposter. The fact is, I am not like other people.”
― Augusten Burroughs, quote from Dry
“Part of me believes that love is more valuable when you have to work for it.”
― Augusten Burroughs, quote from Dry
“Stars should not be seen alone. That's why there are so many. Two people should stand together and look at them. One person alone will surely miss the good ones.”
― Augusten Burroughs, quote from Dry
“The reason I know what we are to each other is because we fight freely and almost constantly, about even the smallest thing. In fact, once we didn't speak for an entire week because he didn't like the way I loaded his dishwasher...I can't decide if we're exact opposites, or somehow exactly the same except for minor cosmetic differences. I do know that all of his friends hate me and all of my friends hate him. We drive each other crazy in ways that nobody else can even touch. We never bore each other. And we both realize what a rare thing this is.”
― Augusten Burroughs, quote from Dry
“Think of your head as an unsafe neighborhood; don't go there alone.”
― Augusten Burroughs, quote from Dry
“I think part of the reason I'm attracted to Foster is because he's such a mess. I mean, the people I have loved in my life have never been easy to love. I'm not used to normal. I'm used to disaster. I don't know, as messed up as he is, he's also sort of exciting, sort of a challenge. I'm accustomed to working for love.”
― Augusten Burroughs, quote from Dry
“Why am I so anxious? And then it hits me. I'm not anxious, I'm lonely. And I'm lonely in some horribly deep way and for a flash of an instant, I can see just how lonely, and how deep this feeling runs. And it scares the shit out of me to be so lonely because it seems catastrophic - seeing the car just as it hits you.”
― Augusten Burroughs, quote from Dry
“When you have your health, you have everything. When you do not have your health, nothing else matters at all.”
― Augusten Burroughs, quote from Dry
“...handsome people are always interesting to watch. But a handsome person in crisis is riveting.”
― Augusten Burroughs, quote from Dry
“He's a really nice guy, if only I weren't me.”
― Augusten Burroughs, quote from Dry
“And in my mind, this settles the issue. I would never drink cologne, and am therefore not an alcoholic.”
― Augusten Burroughs, quote from Dry
“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.”
― Augusten Burroughs, quote from Dry
“His laugh is made if porch swings and lemonade”
― Augusten Burroughs, quote from Dry
“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.”
― Augusten Burroughs, quote from Dry
“We haven't slept together. But we've napped”
― Augusten Burroughs, quote from 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.”
― Augusten Burroughs, quote from Dry
“I sit there and think how it isn't fair that I can't drink at all, even a little. I realize I have crammed an entire lifetime of moderate drinking into a decade of hard-core drinking and that is why. I blew my wad.”
― Augusten Burroughs, quote from Dry
“Should I just sit down, right here at carousel seven, and shake until somebody's arms are around me and they're saying, 'It's okay, I'm here, I'm here, come with me to the institute.”
― Augusten Burroughs, quote from Dry
“Suddenly, this word fills me with a sense of sadness I haven't felt since childhood. The kind of sadness you feel at the end of summer. When the fireflies are gone, the ponds are all dried up and the plants are wilted. It's no longer really summer but the air is still too warm and heavy to be fall. It's the season between seasons. It's the feeling of something dying.”
― Augusten Burroughs, quote from Dry
“There's not enough of me left over.”
― Augusten Burroughs, quote from Dry
“What I really want is to sit next to someone on an L.L. bean blanket on the beach in the fall and drink coffee from the same mug. I don't want some rusty '73 Ford Pinto with a factory-defective gas tank that causes it to explode when its rear-ended in the parking lot of the supermarket. So why do I keep looking for Pintos?”
― Augusten Burroughs, quote from Dry
“After I cut off his penis, I sautéed it in rosemary butter and ate it"
"But did you go to a meeting afterwards?"
"Yes"
"I wouldn't worry about it, then.”
― Augusten Burroughs, quote from Dry
“I once read about a guy who lost his arms in a fire. The nurse took pity on him and gave him a hand job. I don't even get that.”
― Augusten Burroughs, quote from Dry
“If you're gay and live in New York and don't go to gym, eventually they come for you.”
― Augusten Burroughs, quote from Dry
“Freshly brainwashed from rehab, I carry the bottle into the bathroom. I hold it up to the light. See the pretty bottle? Isn't it beautiful? Yes, it's beautiful. I unscrew the cap and pour it into the toilet. I flush twice. And then I think, why did I flush twice? The answer, is of course, because I truly do know myself. I cannot be sure I won't attempt to drink from the toilet, like a dog.”
― Augusten Burroughs, quote from Dry
“Nothing surprises me now," I tell him. I am stoic. I am Joan of Arc, with liver damage and an unused penis.”
― Augusten Burroughs, quote from Dry
“Never work with children, puppies or bulimics”
― Augusten Burroughs, quote from Dry
“His toes wriggle in his socks and my first thought is, I want to snip them off with hedge trimmers. Not only does he not deserve to wriggle his toes, he does not deserve to have toes. He deserves to gave stumps. He cannot be trusted with toes because they enable him to walk and thus seek out the company of crack dealers. Kathy Bates's character completed understood this concept in Misery.”
― Augusten Burroughs, quote from Dry
Augusten Burroughs
Born place: in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, The United States
Born date October 23, 1965
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“During the winter, me and Rowley stored up some snowballs in my freezer so we could have a snowball fight when the weather got warm.”
― Jeff Kinney, quote from Hard Luck
“The most common reason why nations fail today is because they have extractive institutions.”
― Daron Acemoğlu, quote from Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
“Forgetting who you are is so much more complicated than simply forgetting your name. It's also forgetting your dreams. Your aspirations. What makes you happy. What you pray you'll never have to live without. It's meeting yourself for the first time, and not being sure of your first impression.”
― Jessica Brody, quote from Unremembered
“He came into her life wearing a Syracuse ball cap and blue jeans that had holes in them.”
― J.R. Ward, quote from The Shadows
“A little road not made of man,
Enabled of the eye,
Accessible to thill of bee,
Or cart of butterfly.
If town it have, beyond itself,
’T is that I cannot say;
I only sigh,—no vehicle
Bears me along that way.”
― Emily Dickinson, quote from The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
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