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Running with Scissors

: A Memoir

A New York Times Bestseller Winner of the 2014 Kirkus Prize Winner of the 2014 New England Book Award for Fiction A Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award A Best Book of the Year for: New York Tim

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Augusten Burroughs (4)

“I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn’t deserve it. Because they are all you have. Because any attention is better than no attention.”

— Augusten Burroughs, amazon.com

Tagged: Attention, Undeserving, H4D-46

“I missed him so much that I had physical sensations of loss, all over my body. Like one minute I was missing an arm, the next my spleen. It was making me feel sick, like throwing up.”

— Augusten Burroughs, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Missing Someone, Missing A Lover, Missing Him

“I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn’t deserve it. Because they are all you have. Because any attention is better than no attention.”

— Augusten Burroughs, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, romance, Loving Deeply, Unrequited Love, loving someone who doesn't love you back

“You deserve to need me, not to have me.”

— Augusten Burroughs, amazon.com

Tagged: Love