"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 mom..."
- Augusten Burroughs
"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 l..."
"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."
"It may seem to you that your life is over now. Your future without the person you love is no future at all.Death is a head-on collision with your plans.But everything in life--the gold fillings of you..."
"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 backyard, like a goat."
"And we were married and all the windows were open but the smell of flowers was so thick and sickly sweet. I felt like I might choke to death."
"...Trying is not the same as being. Trying flies in a circle around the moment and *being* is inside of it."
"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."