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Lust & Wonder QUOTES

Lust & Wonder QUOTES

1 " Was I heartbroken or furious? I didn’t know. I did know: that’s it. Our relationship could not continue like this, out of balance, unequal.
And as surely as I knew this, I knew something else: But of course it can. We can continue to live exactly as we do right now, in a heavy-lidded state of love and unspeakable compromise. Isn’t that what people do? Every day? Don’t they ache but rename it tired?
It made me wonder: Was it even fair to expect the person you’re with to be just as happy as you? Furthermore, how could you ever even know for sure? You couldn’t, was the truth of it. You could not know this. "

― Augusten Burroughs , Lust & Wonder

2 " I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, not what should be, not what ought to be, not what once was.
Only the is. "

― Augusten Burroughs , Lust & Wonder

3 " No matter how awful something is, you can always sell tickets. "

― Augusten Burroughs , Lust & Wonder

4 " The horrible thing about being sober is you lose your excuse for being so fucked up. "

― Augusten Burroughs , Lust & Wonder

5 " Awe, I discovered, was my favorite feeling. It was a rare experience, but when it happened, it was like an orgasm for the mind. "

― Augusten Burroughs , Lust & Wonder

6 " How many of the things I fear or dread are actually things that I want? "

― Augusten Burroughs , Lust & Wonder

7 " Normal people who weren’t raised by mentally ill goats probably took the feeling of safety for granted. They only noticed when they suddenly felt unsafe. When the hands reach up for under the bed and grab their ankles, they scream, whereas I’m like “Wait, can you scratch my knee before you kill me? "

― Augusten Burroughs , Lust & Wonder

8 " How the fuck did I get here? I thought. If I was going to be completely sober for the rest of my life, if I couldn't even have one drink at the end of a long and brittle day, then the life I lived needed to be a life from which I did not seek escape. "

― Augusten Burroughs , Lust & Wonder

9 " You should know, I tried for many years not to be in love with you, but I failed. And I really did try very hard. But it was not possible, and it never has been, because I have actually loved you from very early in our relationship. Possibly as early as our first meeting. "

― Augusten Burroughs , Lust & Wonder

10 " I thought, This is how it feels inside the right decision. "

― Augusten Burroughs , Lust & Wonder

11 " The other thing is slightly out of the blue. I love you, is the thing. And I mean love love, not love you, bro. I mean, I am in love with you, and it’s an eye-color kind of love, unchangeable and bright. I know this must be somewhat shocking (appalling?) to you, because you’ve never given any indication that you felt anything but professional agent friendliness for me, but I have felt much more for so long it’s possibly caused me brain damage. Also, I am certain you love me, too. Or at least mostly certain. Or at least I hope. "

― Augusten Burroughs , Lust & Wonder

12 " It is an awful, just sickening feeling, I discovered, to live with somebody, to exist in the midst of sharing a life, only to realize it is utterly doomed. "

― Augusten Burroughs , Lust & Wonder

13 " On the one hand, I was happy to have a proper diagnosis. Aside from a trust fund and a royal title, that was really the only thing I'd ever wanted in life. On the other hand, I was offended to learn that my brain was defective. Or, I suppose I should say, "differently abled."
One thing I was not was surprised. Four generations of manic depression on my mother's side of the family. Three of autism on my father's side. Drug addict uncles, a pyromaniac cousin, a couple of schizophrenics and suicides, several flesh-and-blood geniuses, and a pecan farmer. You just cannot mix those raw ingredients together and then stick them inside my mother for nine months and expect something normal to come out. It's a wonder I wasn't born with a set of horns. "

― Augusten Burroughs , Lust & Wonder

14 " Wanting to want something isn’t the same as wanting it. I suppose what I really wanted, then, was to give more of a shit, because about certain things, I simply did not. "

― Augusten Burroughs , Lust & Wonder

15 " If you loathe your job, the situation is improved if you can do it in your underwear. Drunk. "

― Augusten Burroughs , Lust & Wonder

16 " I placed my hand against the side of his precious, electric face and felt the stubble beneath my fingers. I was overwhelmed with the lust and wonder of it all. "

― Augusten Burroughs , Lust & Wonder

17 " I had never before considered the possibility that I might never even want a drink yet still be left with this horrible, throbbing vacancy in the center of my being, right where my mental health and contentment were supposed to be. "

― Augusten Burroughs , Lust & Wonder

18 " As my friend Amy observed: "Divorce is like a Polaroid picture. What truly happened will develop over time and you will see. "

― Augusten Burroughs , Lust & Wonder

19 " What you’ve written isn’t a novel. It’s a cry for help.” I "

― Augusten Burroughs , Lust & Wonder

20 " he already knew how horrible I could be, yet he loved me, anyway. "

― Augusten Burroughs , Lust & Wonder