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Augusten Xon Burroughs is an American writer known for his New York Times bestselling memoir Running with Scissors . Wikipedia  

✵ 23. October 1965  •  Other names オーガステン・バロウズ, 奥古斯汀·巴勒斯, 奧古斯汀·巴勒斯
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Augusten Burroughs Quotes

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

Augusten Burroughs

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.”

Augusten Burroughs book Running with Scissors

Source: Running with Scissors

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

Augusten Burroughs book 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.”

Augusten Burroughs book 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.”

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.”

Augusten Burroughs Possible Side Effects

Source: Possible Side Effects

“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.”

Augusten Burroughs book 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.”

Augusten Burroughs book Running with Scissors

Source: Running with Scissors

“but I am not here ironically; I am here sincerely.”

Augusten Burroughs

Source: Magical Thinking: True Stories

“I remember, no matter how impossible it seemed that any given day would end, it always did. This one would, too.”

Augusten Burroughs book You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas

Source: You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas