I want to feel calm and at ease. Like someone who lives in Half Moon Bay, California, and makes hummus from scratch. Instead, I feel like I'm a contestant on some awful supermarket game show where I've got sixty seconds to hurl my shopping cart down the aisles, piling it with as much as possible before the buzzer goes off. Augusten Burroughs
Hollowness: that I understand. I'm starting to believe that there isn't anything you can do to fix it. That's what I've taken from the therapy sessions: the holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you...
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Paula Hawkins
Depression weighs you down like a rock in a river. You don't stand a chance. You can fight and pray and hope you have the strength to swim, but sometimes, you have to let yourself sink. Because you'll never know true happiness until someone or...
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Alysha Speer
Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole.
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Unknown
The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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Joseph Conrad
Ligion is the opiate of the masses." "I did masses of opiates religiously.
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Carrie Fisher
More Quotes By Augusten Burroughs
If you have one parent who loves you, even if they can't buy you clothes, they're so poor and they make all kinds of mistakes and maybe sometimes they even give you awful advice, but never for one moment do you doubt their love for...
Although I was able to maintain a pleasant expression, I was mentally throwing up in her face.
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 while drunk, so I have little memory.
Doctor, if being a bitch is healthy, then I am the healthiest damn woman on the face of the earth
Just as I had long suspected, a person didn't really need math for anything anyway. Maybe some people did. Some limited people.
