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."
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"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."
"أجل، كنتُ خائفًا، ضعيفًا وهشًّا، وغرقتُ في عوالم الكتب أكثر من واقعي. لكن أمي لم تملك حيلة لتيسير أمري، بل زادت الأمر سوءًا بحبسي المؤبد عند مجرد لمحة صدق. لماذا؟ لأنها، خلافًا لما كانت تقوله، لم تكن تثق بي، أو على حد تعبيرها، لم أكن أدرك مصلحتي. يا لبؤس المراهقة! كأنني كنتُ في سجن."
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."
"ليس في الوجود أشقُّ من أن تُفضي لأمك بأنك كلُّ ما لم تتمنَّاه فيك."
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?"
"لِمَ كان لا بد أن يكون سرًا مخجلًا كهذا؟ ألم أُدَرَّب على قضاء حاجتي، وأُعَلَّم أن آكل وفمي مغلق؟ فما كل هذه الضجة حول ممارسة الجنس إذن؟ أليس ضروريًا لبقاء جنسنا البشري اللعين، المتناقض؟"
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."
"أحيانًا، حين ترغب في مساعدة إنسان منكسر، لا تفعل محاولاتك سوى تذكيره بأجزائه المفقودة."
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
"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
"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
"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
"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
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