Hope

“He was raised without a proper diagnosis.”
― Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors

“Not that she didn't love almost every boy she'd ever met, and not that every boy in the world didn't totally love her. It was impossible not to. But she wanted someone to love her and shower her with attention the way only a boy who was completely in love with her could. The rare sort of love. True love. The kind of love she'd never had.”
― Cecily von Ziegesar, I Like It Like That

“I was learning that if I lived slightly in the future-what will happen next-I didn't have to feel so much about what was going on in the present.”
― Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors

“The line between normal and crazy seemed impossibly thin. A person would have to be an expert tightrope walker in order not to fall.”
― Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors