“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 things easier for me, just worse by grounding me for life at the slightest hint of truth. Why? Because in spite of what she said she did not trust me or, to put it in her… — Gaia B. Amman Copy Share
“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
