17 Quotes by 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 about to explode. What am I hungry for?

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.

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.

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.

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

The world crashed on me. I smiled like an idiot as I stood up and rushed away hoping he'd forget we had ever spoken. I walked away from the Company and Sonia, but mostly from Giovanni. I had finally met an awesome guy who did not look like a thug and he was four years older than me?

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.

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?