“There is nothing harder than telling your own mother you’re everything she hoped you were not.” — Gaia B. Amman Parenting 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… — Gaia B. Amman Beauty 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 Depression 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… — Gaia B. Amman Eating disorder 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… — Gaia B. Amman Frightening Copy Share Image
“Maybe that was what being together with someone really meant. It meant seeing past the idealization you had of them, embracing their… — Gaia B. Amman Fear 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… — Gaia B. Amman Positive thing 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… — Gaia B. Amman Couple 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?… — Gaia B. Amman Big deal 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… — Gaia B. Amman Crush 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… — Gaia B. Amman Aching 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… — Gaia B. Amman Crush Copy Share Image
“I wanted to disappear, to be the night, the asphalt, the woods; anything but me. I didn’t want to have to break… — Gaia B. Amman Anger 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… — Gaia B. Amman Books Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, when you want to help a broken person, your attempts only remind them of their missing pieces.” — Gaia B. Amman Broken Copy Share Image
“He was interested in owning my mystery, not solving it.” — Gaia B. Amman Teen-fiction Copy Share Image
“There is something so comforting about finding your changed self in a familiar place, as if the background noise vanished leaving you… — Gaia B. Amman Angst Copy Share Image
