Crush Quote by Gaia B. Amman

“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

“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

“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

“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

“There is nothing harder than telling your own mother you’re everything she hoped you were not.”

— Gaia B. Amman

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Maybe that was what being together with someone really meant. It meant seeing past the idealization you had of them, embracing their flaws and…

— Gaia B. Amman