"Do not wait for the healing to arrive. It will never come. The holes will never leave or be filled with anything at all. But holes are interesting things."

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Source : Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.99, Macmillan

Augusten Burroughs

#Healing Quotes #Interesting Quotes #Waiting Quotes

“I know it sounds a bit corny, but I do think that beauty and sexiness come from within.”
“I'm a sucker for a funny script. And then, as soon as I don't wanna be, one comes along and grabs me.”
“For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead....”
“How would you take care of it?â€ I asked. He shrugged. â€œI know some ghouls. I make a couple calls, the guys come over for dinner, problem solved.â€ â€œThey can put away nine whole giants? Thereâ€™s that many ghouls in town?â€ â€œProbably not,â€ Leif admitted. â€œBut whatever they do not eat tonight, theyâ€™ll take the rest to go.â€ I stared at him in disbelief. â€œYou mean like a doggie bag?â€ The vampire nodded with a thin trace of a smile. â€œThey have a refrigerated truck, Atticus. These are practical guys.”

Source : Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.120, Del Rey
“It takes a long time to grow an old friend. Trust is built one single moment at a time.”
“Then we are assured by Sartre that owing to the final disappearance of God our liberty is absolute! At this the entire audience waves its hat or claps its hands. But this natural enthusiasm is turned abruptly into something much less buoyant when it is learnt that this liberty weighs us down immediately with tremendous responsibilities. We now have to take all God's worries on our shoulders -now that we are become men like gods. It is at this point that the Anxiety and Despondency begin, ending in utter despair.”
“Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together.”
“I'm in a profession with a dismal success rate, in an academic field with a dismal hiring rate. And I don't write, really, about any of that - rather the institutional structures I've negotiated my way through, with healthy doses of luck, provide a breathing, parasitic glimpse into the bureaucratic monolith of the creative-degree machine.”

Source : Source: www.raintaxi.com

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