Steph > Steph's Quotes

“I, myself, am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.”
― Augusten Burroughs

“You deserve to need me, not to have me.”
― Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Doctor, if being a bitch is healthy, then I am the healthiest damn woman on the face of the earth”
― Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors

“Part of me believes that love is more valuable when you have to work for it.”
― Augusten Burroughs, Dry

“There's no doubt our 'justice' system is broken. There's no doubt that as a society we ask people to pay far beyond what their criminal sentences ask of them. It's a truth we all need to examine. Because how we take care of broken people matters. Findamentally, I believe, it determines our own humanity.”
― Lara Love Hardin, The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing