[My brother] shaped my young life. First, he taught me how to walk. Then, armed with sticks and dead snakes, he chased me and I learned how to run.
Augusten BurroughsThe truth is humbling, terrifying, and often exhilarating. It blows the doors off the hinges and fills the world with fresh air.
Augusten BurroughsYou would be amazed by what you can give up, lose, or break, and yet still be a person who gets happy over brownies.
Augusten BurroughsTags: happiness
Let the people who want to have kids, have them. And let the rest of us spend the extra money on ourselves. Being gay doesn’t make you a bad person. Not wanting kids doesn’t make you a bad person. Perhaps crushing the bones in one little girl’s hand makes you a bad person, but that was an accident.
Augusten BurroughsThis is how you survive the unsurvivable, this is how you lose that which you cannot bear to lose, this is how you reinvent yourself, overcome your abusers, fulfill your ambitions and meet the love of your life: by following what is true, no matter where it leads you.
Augusten BurroughsThe past does not haunt us. We haunt the past. We allow our minds to focus in that direction. We open memories and examine them. We reexperience emotions we felt during the painful events we experienced because we are recalling them in as much detail as we can.
Augusten BurroughsYou need to grab your dream out of the sky like it's a kite and pinch the string through your fingers until you reach the spool.
Augusten BurroughsLove is a helium-based emotion; Love always takes the high road.
Augusten BurroughsYou cannot be a prisoner of your past against your will. Because you can only live in the past inside your mind.
Augusten BurroughsI don't believe in the concept of a soul mate. Because we are all unique, but we're also simply too similar.
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