Gaia Amman > Gaia's Quotes

“l’amore era un errore pericoloso e la sua complice, la speranza, un’illusione insidiosa. E”
― Khaled Hosseini, Mille splendidi soli

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“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 words, I did not know what was good for me.
Being a teenager sucks! I might as well have been in prison.”
― Gaia B. Amman, Sex-O-S: The Tragicomic Adventure of an Italian Surviving the First Time

“He was interested in owning my mystery, not solving it.”
― Gaia B. Amman, Sex-O-S: The Tragicomic Adventure of an Italian Surviving the First Time

“There is something so comforting about finding your changed self in a familiar place, as if the background noise vanished leaving you alone to unravel your own turmoil.”
― Gaia B. Amman, Sex-O-S: The Tragicomic Adventure of an Italian Surviving the First Time

“I wanted to disappear, to be the night, the asphalt, the woods; anything but me. I didn’t want to have to break up with him, and I didn’t want to be the target of his massive, uncontrollable anger.
But I was me, and I had found with time that there is no cure for that.”
― Gaia B. Amman, Sex-O-S: The Tragicomic Adventure of an Italian Surviving the First Time

“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, a good reason to wake up tomorrow.”
― Gaia B. Amman, Sex-O-S: The Tragicomic Adventure of an Italian Surviving the First Time

“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, Sex-O-S: The Tragicomic Adventure of an Italian Surviving the First Time

“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, Sex-O-S: The Tragicomic Adventure of an Italian Surviving the First Time

“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 survival of our darn, hypocritical species?”
― Gaia B. Amman, Sex-O-S: The Tragicomic Adventure of an Italian Surviving the First Time

“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 could finally start to be myself. No more lies, no more pretend.”
― Gaia B. Amman, Sex-O-S: The Tragicomic Adventure of an Italian Surviving the First Time

“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 I need and that he is not. Maybe here is the mistake; how could I ever think another person could make ME complete?”
― Gaia B. Amman, Sex-O-S: The Tragicomic Adventure of an Italian Surviving the First Time

“There is nothing harder than telling your own mother you’re everything she hoped you were not.”
― Gaia B. Amman, Sex-O-S: The Tragicomic Adventure of an Italian Surviving the First Time

“If she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she's easy, she won't be amazing. If she's worth it, you wont give up. If you give up, you're not worthy. ... Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.”
― Bob Marley, Bob Marley: Guitar Chord Songbook

“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“I'm too wacky for most weirdos. Who am I to judge?”
― Tori Amos

“Why throw money at problems? That is what money is for.
Should the nation's wealth be redistributed? It has been and continues to be redistributed to a few people in a manner strikingly unhelpful.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake

“if there is a god, he sure hates people”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake

“But by accident, not by cunning calculation, books, because of their weight and texture, and because of their sweetly token resistance to manipulation, involve our hands and eyes, and then our minds and souls, in a spiritual adventure I would be very sorry for my grandchildren not to know about.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake

“TV is an eraser.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake

“Artists,” he said, “are people who say, 'I can't fix my country or my state or my city, or even my marriage. But by golly, I can make this square of canvas, or this eight-and-a-half-by-eleven piece of paper, or this lump of clay, or these twelve bars of music, exactly what they ought to be!”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake

“science never cheered up anyone. the human situation is just too awful.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake