When you have your health, you have everything. When you do not have your health, nothing else matters at all.
Augusten BurroughsConfidence is a reduction of your own interest in whether others are thinking about you and if so, what they're thinking.
Augusten BurroughsAnd I hope she does not live in a dark world. Because even the most terrible loss doesn't have to make you darker; it can make you deeper.
Augusten BurroughsDo not wait for the healing to arrive. It will never come. The holes will never leave or be filled with anything at all. But holes are interesting things.
Augusten BurroughsThe most mortifying fact of my life is something that happened when I was fourteen and I have never admitted to anyone: not to friends nor therapists; not even in rehab when we were detailing our own personal spirals of shame did I confess. It is this: I am a graduate of the Barbizon School of Modeling.
Augusten Burroughs