Augusten Burroughs Quotes About School

Quotes about: School

• 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

• Throwing things horrified me. I suffered extreme, paralyzing anxiety when it came to anything remotely athletic. I wouldn't even run to catch the school bus because I knew I'd trip and then get teased for a year.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Running, School, Years

  Augusten Burroughs (2007). “Possible Side Effects”, p.261, Macmillan

• My instinct was always have your gun in your hand. Especially when you are telling somebody to do something. But, in fact, the police academy discourages this. They feel your gun should rarely, if ever, be brought out of its holster. Most certainly not when children are involved, which is exactly when I saw myself using my gun most often. A truant teenager loitering outside a movie theater is going to be far more motivated to return to school when he has the barrel of a .45 pressed against his cheek.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Children, Teenager, School

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

  Augusten Burroughs

  Smart, School, Nursing

  Augusten Burroughs (2011). “Possible Side Effects”, p.93, Atlantic Books Ltd

• The 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

  School, Rehab, Facts

  Augusten Burroughs (2004). “Magical Thinking: True Stories”, p.36, Macmillan

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