Alyssa

“I understand why sometimes people speak in cliches because sometimes there is no other way to describe something.”
― Augusten Burroughs, Magical Thinking: True Stories

“It's a wonder I'm even alive. Sometimes I think that. I think that I can't believe I haven't killed myself. But there's something in me that just keeps going on. I think it has something to do with tomorrow, that there always is one, and that everything can change when it comes.”
― Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors

“Speaking the words aloud so they would exist in the world and begin to become real.”
― Augusten Burroughs, A Wolf at the Table

“I want to write something that means something to someone...the reminds them of what a second, a moment, really is...or that assures them that we are just as lost as they are. I want to write an emotion they are too fragile to let loose, so that my words can do the expression for them, the feeling for them. I want to write beyond the basics and the cliches...I want to write you, I want to write a long walk on a starry night, I want to write an exhale or an inhale...or suffocation.
I want to write as clear as my voice could be heard...that is, if I had anything to say.”
― Augusten Burroughs