“ 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… Gaia B. Amman
“ There is nothing harder than telling your own mother you’re everything she hoped you were not. 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 was the freaking big deal about having sex? Wasn’t it essential to the su… Gaia B. Amman
“ Sometimes, when you want to help a broken person, your attempts only remind them of their missing pieces. 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
“ 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 was the freaking big deal about having sex? Wasn’t it essential to the surviv… 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 that was about to happen. 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 that’s bullshit, because from certain pains you can never heal. They keep screami… 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 had none. 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 fears, helping them to overcome them, waiting for them if… Gaia B. Amman
