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This is the story of a boy whose mother gave him away to be raised by her psychiatrist, a dead ringer for Santa Claus and a certifiable lunatic into the bargain. Suddenly at the age of 12, Augusten found himself living in a dilapidated Victorian house in perfect squalor. The doctor's bizarre family, a few patients and a paedophile living in the garden shed completed the tableau. Here, there were no rules or school. The Christmas tree stayed up until Summer and Valium was chomped down like sweets. When things got a bit slow, there was always the ancient electroshock therapy machine under the stairs.

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This is the story of a boy whose mother gave him away to be raised by her psychiatrist, a dead ringer for Santa Claus and a certifiable lunatic into the bargain. Suddenly at the age of 12, Augusten found himself living in a dilapidated Victorian house in perfect squalor. The doctor's bizarre family, a few patients and a paedophile living in the garden shed completed the tableau. Here, there were no rules or school. The Christmas tree stayed up until Summer and Valium was chomped down like sweets. When things got a bit slow, there was always the ancient electroshock therapy machine under the stairs.

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Forlag Atlantic Books

Utgivelsesår 2003

Format Innbundet

ISBN13 9781843541509

EAN 9781843541509

Omtalt sted Nordøstlige Stater

Omtalt person Augusten Burroughs

Språk Engelsk

Sider 304

Utgave 1

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Teuta Dibrani siterer Running with scissors av Augusten Burroughs

15:47, 6. juni 2012 Ingen har det som favoritt.

The line between normal and crazy seemed impossibly thin. A person would have to be an expert tightrope walker in order not to fall.

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Sandra siterer Running with scissors av Augusten Burroughs (side 210)

16:31, 26. oktober 2011 Ingen har det som favoritt.

My powers of denial were strong even then, and I was able to convince myself that it didn't really matter because it didn't really happend.

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Teuta Dibrani siterer Running with scissors av Augusten Burroughs

15:39, 6. juni 2012 Ingen har det som favoritt.

I came to think that maybe God was what you believed in because you needed to feel you weren’t alone. Maybe God was simply that part of yourself that was always there and always strong, even when you were not.

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Teuta Dibrani siterer Running with scissors av Augusten Burroughs

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I just look at her and she creeps me out. She looks like she would eat a baby. Not that she's fat. She just looks hungry in some dangerous way that can't be explained. She's always so nice and friendly. Exactly the disposition of a baby killer.

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Teuta Dibrani siterer Running with scissors av Augusten Burroughs

11:27, 18. juli 2012 Ingen har det som favoritt.

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. For exactly the same reason, it is sometimes satisfying to cut yourself and bleed. On those gray days where eight in the morning looks no different from noon and nothing has happened and nothing is going to happen and you are washing a glass in the sink and it breaks-accidentally-and punctures your skin. And then there is this shocking red, the brightest thing in the day, so vibrant it buzzes, this blood of yours. That is okay sometimes because at least you know you’re alive.

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Teuta Dibrani siterer Running with scissors av Augusten Burroughs

11:27, 18. juli 2012 Ingen har det som favoritt.

My mother began to go crazy. Not in a 'Let's paint the kitchen red!' sort of way. But crazy in a 'gas oven, toothpaste sandwhich, I am God' sort of way.

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Teuta Dibrani siterer Running with scissors av Augusten Burroughs

11:28, 18. juli 2012 Ingen har det som favoritt.

It’s a wonder I’m even alive. Sometimes I think that. I think that I can’t believe I haven’t killed myself. But there’s something in me that just keeps going on. I think it has something to do with tomorrow, that there is always one, and that everything can change when it comes.

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