Augusten Burroughs Quotes

I've told many people that I'm not looking to go out there and find the most beautiful girl in the world who likes me because I'm 'Mr. American Idol Scott McCreery.' If I could just find a nice hometown girl who just likes me for who I am, that's all I want.

She loved attention. It was like a glass of the best champagne—bubbly and intoxicating—and as with champagne, she always wanted more of it. Still, she didn’t want to seem like an easy mark. “If you must know, I’ve come to join a convent,” Evie said, testing him.

Appear tougher or cooler or funnier than you feel and there is a chance you'll make it.

I'd rather have a girl exposed to me than 25 women in prom dresses vying for a stranger.

People want to believe you are sincerely interested in them as a person, not just what they can do for you.

No woman has the right to marry a man if she has to bend herself out of shape for him. She might wish to, but she could never be to him with all her passionate endeavor what the other woman could be to him without trying. Character will dominate over all and will come out at last.

If I meet someone at a bus stop, I want to really meet that person. I don't want to be 'Hugh Jackman, the famous actor.'

Society teaches us conditional love; i.e., "I love you if you are the way I want you to be."

What does open us is sharing our vulnerabilities. Sometimes we see a couple who has done this difficult work over a lifetime. In the process, they have grown old together. We can sense the enormous comfort, the shared quality of ease between these people. It is beautiful, and very rare. Without this quality of openness and vulnerability, partners don't really know each other; they are one image living with another image.

What I told you before is still true. I want to know that when you're with me, it's because you want to be, not because you have to be.

How lucky we are, when we're spared what we think we want!

Isana laughed. "And you, lady? Are you a woman of conscience or of ambition?" The lady smiled. "That's a question rarely asked here at court." "And why is that?" "Because a woman of conscience would tell you that she is a person of conscience. A woman of ambition would tell you that she is a person of conscience—only much more convincingly.

I want to acknowledge luck, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others.

But I think if it's the right person, you wouldn't have to work so hard at intimacy. I think—hope—it would just happen naturally. Otherwise, opening up to the wrong person..." I made a face. "Like putting ammo in their hands.

Some persons' letters seem almost framed to afford a series of alibis for their personality.

You cannot connect with anyone except through reality.

If you want to be noticed, dress the part.

If you don't know what you want, don't say you never had a chance.

Don’t you, when strangers and friends come to call, straighten the cushions, kick the books under the bed and put away the letter you were writing? How many of us want any of us to see us as we really are? Isn’t the mirror hostile enough?

I'm in a position where - I mean, not a lot of people are in a very fortunate position - where I kind of have the power to choose what I want to do in a way.

I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.

You have to appear wiser and more prudent than is required by the people you are dealing with if you want to give a high opinion of yourself.

We own up to minor failings, but only so as to convince others that we have no major ones.

Men to be truly won must be won by truth.