Augusten Burroughs Quotes About Parents

Quotes about: Parents

• 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

• Glen had a disability more disfiguring than a burn and more terrifying than cancer. Glen had been born on the day after Christmas. "My parents just combine my birthday with Christmas, that's all," he explained. But we knew this was a lie. Glen's parents just wrapped a couple of his Christmas presents in birthday-themed wrapping paper, stuck some candles in a supermarket cake, and had a dinner of Christmas leftovers.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Christmas, Couple, Cancer

  Augusten Burroughs (2011). “You Better Not Cry: True Stories for Christmas”, p.35, Atlantic Books Ltd

• I've overcome a lot - sexual abuse, death of a loved one, bad parents and experienced life. My nature is such I not only survived all this but I have thrived. I've always been psychologically ambitious in that I've never been willing to settle emotionally for anything less then what's needed. I've wanted more then that from life.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Death Of A Loved One, Parent, Abuse

  Source: blogcritics.org

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