Nadege

“If you loathe your job, the situation is improved if you can do it in your underwear. Drunk.”
― Augusten Burroughs, Lust & Wonder

“I lay back against the pillows and stared up at the ceiling. I hated myself. I thought, I am just a destructive force in the world. Look at all the bodies I leave behind me. *”
― Augusten Burroughs, Lust & Wonder

“The horrible thing about being sober is you lose your excuse for being so fucked up.”
― Augusten Burroughs, Lust & Wonder

“On the one hand, I was happy to have a proper diagnosis. Aside from a trust fund and a royal title, that was really the only thing I'd ever wanted in life. On the other hand, I was offended to learn that my brain was defective. Or, I suppose I should say, "differently abled."
One thing I was not was surprised. Four generations of manic depression on my mother's side of the family. Three of autism on my father's side. Drug addict uncles, a pyromaniac cousin, a couple of schizophrenics and suicides, several flesh-and-blood geniuses, and a pecan farmer. You just cannot mix those raw ingredients together and then stick them inside my mother for nine months and expect something normal to come out. It's a wonder I wasn't born with a set of horns.”
― Augusten Burroughs, Lust & Wonder