Sarah Mitchell

“I think I love him, but I also think that you can love people who aren't good for you.”
― Augusten Burroughs, Dry

“I used to feel so alone in the city. All those gazillions of people and then me, on the outside. Because how do you meet a new person? I was very stunned by this for many years. And then I realized, you just say, "Hi." They may ignore you. Or you may marry them. And that possibility is worth that one word.”
― Augusten Burroughs

“Glen had a disability more disfiguring than a burn and more terrifying than cancer.

Glen had been born on the day after Christmas.

"My parents just combine my birthday with Christmas, that's all," he explained.

But we knew this was a lie. Glen's parents just wrapped a couple of his Christmas presents in birthday-themed wrapping paper, stuck some candles in a supermarket cake, and had a dinner of Christmas leftovers.”
― Augusten Burroughs, You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas

“Like every child, I adored her. Until I formed a brain and got to know her.”
― Augusten Burroughs, Possible Side Effects