Julie's review
Magical Thinking: True Stories
by Augusten Burroughs
Julie's review
Magical Thinking: True Stories by Augusten Burroughs
Julie's review
rating:
recommended for: everyone
My favorite part of the book, and some of the most profound and prophetic writing ever:
"The truth is, Dennis has no bad qualities and no faults. When he's working late and I'm alone, or sometimes when we're in bed together, the lights off, I try to make even a small list in my mind of his faults: Things I Put Up With Out of Love. But I haven't been able to think of a single thing that I am not able to first overlook and then come to cherish. Even the fact that he sometimes loses things has led to a treasured nickname: Mittenclips.
Because sometimes he misplaces things: keys, his wallet, our car once. But his face, when he sees that he's done this--where are my keys?--it's the most crestfallen face, and I tell him, " Have you checked the pockets on that jacket you wore last night?" And I check the bathroom and the floor under the sofa and all the unlikely but possible places for lost things to be. And we always, always manage to find whatever was missing.
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"The truth is, Dennis has no bad qualities and no faults. When he's working late and I'm alone, or sometimes when we're in bed together, the lights off, I try to make even a small list in my mind of his faults: Things I Put Up With Out of Love. But I haven't been able to think of a single thing that I am not able to first overlook and then come to cherish. Even the fact that he sometimes loses things has led to a treasured nickname: Mittenclips.
Because sometimes he misplaces things: keys, his wallet, our car once. But his face, when he sees that he's done this--where are my keys?--it's the most crestfallen face, and I tell him, " Have you checked the pockets on that jacket you wore last night?" And I check the bathroom and the floor under the sofa and all the unlikely but possible places for lost things to be. And we always, always manage to find whatever was missing.
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