Augusten Burroughs Quotes

I didn't have a happy childhood.

I had a very rough and tumultuous childhood.

I didn't have a good childhood growing up.

I had a bad background just growing up as a child.

I had a very turbulent and painful childhood, like many people. I left for college when I was 16 years old and up until that point I'd lived in five different family configurations. Each one ended or changed through a death or some terrible loss.

Childhood - that was not my favorite time in my life.

I grew up in a house that had a whole lot of trouble. As much trouble as you could imagine.

Home wasn't a pleasant place to live, growing up.

Anybody who says, 'My childhood was completely happy,' is a person who isn't remembering the truth.

I had a very rocky, difficult, emotional childhood with my parents.

It's a painful thing to talk about my childhood. I kind of don't talk about it much.

We have a pandemic of childhood trauma.

I definitely didn't want children, because my childhood was not a very happy time.

Of all my childhood memories, I don't have any good ones.

Is there such a thing as a normal childhood?

I had a bit of a strange childhood, to be honest.

I don't really have childhood-type memories. I had to grow up very young.

Well, we can skip childhood because I didn't have any. Not one goddam moment on the Good Ship Lollipop.

I heard about the Holocaust before hearing the 'Cinderella' story or watching 'Peter Pan.'

I think everything that played a part in my life growing up is in my music. Being homeless, living in shelters, dealing with over-aged, older men that hit on me... all that is in the music.

It was tough, so hard; it really was horrible when I was growing up. I was called so many names, all sorts.

I grew up in a little bit of a broken home.

My dad was well known on the streets, shall we say, and he had a different lifestyle, which could spill into the home setting. Being exposed to that at a young age was difficult.

Most incarcerated women have stories that are similar to mine. They suffered great trauma as children.

I grew up in a broken home.