Augusten Burroughs Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• Each time my mother went psychotic, I hoped it would be the last time. Afterward she would tell me, 'I think that was the final episode. I think I had a breakthrough.' And I would believe-for a few months-that it was true. That she was back to stay. Maybe it was like having a rock star mother who was always on the road. Were there Benatar children? Did they sit around and wonder if their mom's Hell is for Children tour was going to be her last tour?

  Augusten Burroughs

  Music, Mom, Mother

  Augusten Burroughs (2010). “Running with Scissors: A Memoir”, p.254, Macmillan

• My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of physical abuse - my mother would beat up my father, basically - and I think I was drawn to images on television that were bright and reflective.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Mother, Father, Mean

• My mother began to go crazy. Not in a 'Let's paint the kitchen red!' sort of way. But crazy in a 'gas oven, toothpaste sandwhich, I am God' sort of way.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Mother, Crazy, Kitchen

• I told myself, 'All I want is a normal life'. But was that true? I wasn't so sure. Because there was a part of me that enjoyed hating school, and the drama of not going, the potential consequences whatever they were. I was intrigued by the unknown. I was even slightly thrilled that my mother was such a mess. Had I become addicted to crisis? I traced my finger along the windowsill. 'Want something normal, want something normal, want something normal', I told myself.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Mother, Drama, Hate

  Augusten Burroughs (2010). “Running with Scissors: A Memoir”, p.129, Macmillan

• I couldn't help but think, This car is taking me to a mental hospital and my mother is treating it like open-mic night at a Greenwich Village café.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Mother, Night, Thinking

  Augusten Burroughs (2010). “Running with Scissors: A Memoir”, p.132, St. Martin's Press

• 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

  Mother, Air, People

  Augusten Burroughs (2010). “Running with Scissors: A Memoir”, p.6, Macmillan

• My mother is from Cairo, Georgia. This makes everything she says sound like it went through a curling iron.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Mother, Iron, Sound

  Augusten Burroughs (2010). “Running with Scissors: A Memoir”, p.6, Macmillan

• I gazed around the room and my eyes stopped dead on a little boy standing in the corner. This was a particularly eerie doll. Life-sized and blond-haired and blue-eyed. I saw a little Nazi boy, pockets probably stuffed with scissors and retractable blades. My grandfather on my mother's side was rumored to be half Jewish, which practically makes me Jerry Seinfeld's brother, and thus wary of blond German boys with their hands out of sight.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Mother, Brother, Eye

  Augusten Burroughs (2011). “Possible Side Effects”, p.69, Atlantic Books Ltd

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