571 Quotes by Augusten Burroughs

We were young. We were bored. And the old electroshock therapy machine was just under the stairs in a box next to the Hoover.

Time moves only forward, never back. We look forward to a moment and then it arrives and an instant later it is gone. Like something on the surface of a river that we reached for but did not touch in time and it carried on, away. You cannot be a prisoner of your past against your will. Because you can only live in the past inside your mind.

The more obsessed one is with getting thin, the more certain it becomes that one will never get there.

The most valuable moments and experiences that life has to offer are found only along its most treacherous paths.

and she's a nurse. do you know how hard nursing school is? it's like medical school. so she's obviously smart.

I always tried to learn Greek, but all I got out of it was, "poulaki mou." ["My little chicken."]

My brother was born without taste or the desire to be professionally lit.

It terrified me to consider: What if, as a grown-up, I craved another body beside me as still as this one? What then?

New York City is a place where you can lock yourself up in your little studio apartment, and not go outside at all, and not feel in the slightest guilty about it.