Victoria

“No matter your spiritual beliefs, if you hold any, the answer is the same: sometimes, why is not knowable. If you open the refrigerator door and a tub of Kozy Shack tapioca pudding tumbles out and splats open onto the floor, you clean it. You don’t stand there and question why it happened, how it was possible. Why doesn’t matter now.”
― Augusten Burroughs, This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.

“Other people sound flat to my ear; their words just hang in the air. But when my mother says something, the ends curl.”
― Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors

“Think of the actual physical elements that compose our bodies: we are 98 percent hydrogen and oxygen and carbon.

That's table sugar.

You are made of the same stuff as table sugar.

Just a couple of tiny differences here and there and look what happened to the sugar: it can stand upright and send tweets.”
― Augusten Burroughs, This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.

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