“I was one to fall for strangers, to live in fiction more than reality. I had created a perfect romantic and mysterious character for me to pine over, when my very real boyfriend had proven human instead.” — Gaia B. Amman Copy Share Image
“It was so easy to get excited about someone I didn’t know, so easy to play “crush” from afar, just like with a fictional character. As long as I never talked to Cute Boy, he was going to be perfect,… — Gaia B. Amman Copy Share Image
“Just like an old couple…I don’t see his dashing smile and green eyes anymore, I only see his fears, his rudeness, I see everything… — Gaia B. Amman Copy Share Image
“Everything seemed less frightening with music, even more so with music I knew by heart. It forced a familiar perspective on the scary unknown… — Gaia B. Amman Copy Share Image
“I was one to fall for strangers, to live in fiction more than reality. I had created a perfect romantic and mysterious character for… — Gaia B. Amman Copy Share Image
“Depression is a physical illness, like bleeding from a wound that won’t close. You cannot fix it, it doesn’t heal.” — Gaia B. Amman Copy Share Image
“There is nothing harder than telling your own mother you’re everything she hoped you were not.” — Gaia B. Amman Copy Share Image
“Yes, I was scared, vulnerable, and fragile and lived in books more than real life. Yet there was nothing Mom could do to make… — Gaia B. Amman Copy Share Image
“Why did it have to be such a shameful secret? Hadn’t I been potty-trained and taught to chew with my mouth closed? So what… — Gaia B. Amman Copy Share Image
“I felt as if I had a secret stomach that could never be filled, always cramping for hunger, even when my regular stomach was… — Gaia B. Amman Copy Share Image
“Maybe beauty had nothing to do with the garbage TV tried to sell us. It was more a matter of confidence. Either way, I… — Gaia B. Amman Copy Share Image
“Life goes on, whether you like it or not. I just wished it could lurch forward. Time is the best doctor, they say, and… — Gaia B. Amman Copy Share Image
“It was so easy to get excited about someone I didn’t know, so easy to play “crush” from afar, just like with a fictional… — Gaia B. Amman Copy Share Image
“Well, the one positive thing about being a pregnant teen was that I was going to bust everyone’s expectations so badly that maybe I… — Gaia B. Amman Copy Share Image
