Sex-O-S Quotes

“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 screaming inside of you till eventually you get used to the noise and can hear again the life outside, but they are always there, aching, clawing at your soul.”
― Gaia B. Amman, Sex-O-S: The Tragicomic Adventure of an Italian Surviving the First Time

“I felt as if I had a secret stomach that could never be filled, always cramping for hunger, even when my regular stomach was about to explode. What am I hungry for?”
― 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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“I was one to fall for strangers, to live in fiction more than reality. I had created a perfect romantic and mysterious character for me to pine over, when my very real boyfriend had proven human instead.”
― Gaia B. Amman, Sex-O-S: The Tragicomic Adventure of an Italian Surviving the First Time

“Sometimes, when you want to help a broken person, your attempts only remind them of their missing pieces.”
― 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

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

“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 they were not ready. Maybe being in love didn’t mean finding the perfect person, it meant it was worth sticking with an imperfect one.”
― 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

“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

“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

“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