Leila Sales Quotes

That's the problem with life. You never get enough time to stare at your ceiling and try to figure out what's going on.

~ Leila Sales

Sometimes you just have those days where everything goes wrong. But sometimes, and totally unexpectedly, something can go right.

~ Leila Sales

I didn’t know. I feel sometimes like…there are all these rules. Just to be a person. You know? You’re supposed to carry a shoulder bag, not a backpack. You’re supposed to wear headbands, or you’re not supposed to wear headbands. It’s okay to describe yourself as likeable, but it’s not okay to describe yourself as eloquent. You can sit in the front of the school bus, but you can’t sit in the middle. You’re not supposed to be with a boy, even when he wants you to. I didn’t know that. There are so many rules, and they don’t make any sense, and I just can’t learn them all

~ Leila Sales

Sometimes people think they know you. They know a few facts about you, and they piece you together in a way that makes sense to them. And if you don't know yourself very well, you might even believe that they are right. But the truth is, that isn't you. That isn't you at all.

~ Leila Sales

Sometimes you get everything you ever wanted, only it doesn't look like what you wanted anymore.

~ Leila Sales

What really happened doesn't matter. What matters is how we agree to remember it.

~ Leila Sales

We shouldn't be doing this. Dan broke the silence, his voice low. We would both get in trouble. He stood up. Let's go back.We shouldn't be doing what? I scrambled to my feet. What exactly are we doing?This.You mean consorting?Sure, consorting. Cavorting. Carousing. He paused to take a deep breath.Kissing. Then he leaned in and pressed his mouth to mine.

~ Leila Sales

If there's one common thread throughout all of history, it's that people have always fallen for the wrong people.

~ Leila Sales

I think love without heartbreak is a myth. A pretty myth, but the kind of myth that ultimately makes us feel worse about ourselves because we're somehow not able to make it come true.

~ Leila Sales

When you die, you just die. No ghost, no reincarnation, no heaven. People want to believe that their souls live on or whatever, but that's only because they can't handle the idea of the world going on without them.

~ Leila Sales

You may wonder how I managed to make these friends. Well, I will tell you. Making friends is actually not that hard when you drop every single one of your standards.

~ Leila Sales

People are who they are and, try as you might, you cannot make them be what you want them to be.

~ Leila Sales

If you're going to have the tortured soul of an artist, then you might as well create some art while you're at it.

~ Leila Sales

I believe that a person's taste in music tells you a lot about them. In some cases, it tells you everything you need to know.

~ Leila Sales

Music wasn't history class, I didn't need to memorize a thousand dates and names.

~ Leila Sales

This wasn't how I imagined things going. But imagination is so often no match for the absurdity, the randomness, the tragedy of reality.

~ Leila Sales

Tonight the Internet seemed filled with versions of me, like a fun house filled with mirrors. Some of them made me look prettier, and some of them made me look uglier, and some of them chopped me right in half, but none of them were right.

~ Leila Sales

You think it's so easy to change yourself. You think it's so easy, but it's not True, things don't stay the same forever: couches are replaced, boys leave, you discover a song, your body becomes forever scarred. And with each of these moments you change again, your true self spinning, shifting positions - but always at last it returns to you, like a dancer on the floor. Because throughout it all you are still always, *you*: beautiful and bruised, known and unknowable. And isn't that - just you - enough?

~ Leila Sales

Throughout it all, you are still, always, you: beautiful and bruised, known and unknowable. And isn't that - just you - enough?

~ Leila Sales

I had never killed myself before, so I had no idea what would I want to listen to when it was too late for me to skip to the next song. Like, maybe when you're dying, you actually want to hear something really upbeat.

~ Leila Sales

Throughout it all, you are still, always, you: beautiful and bruised, known and unknowable.

~ Leila Sales

Because before the time when you're heartbroken, you get to be in love, and that's worth it.

~ Leila Sales

Some people were nice to you simply because they liked you.

~ Leila Sales

People have to create some sort of art so they have something to think about other than their shitty lives.

~ Leila Sales

I have a theoryd that the first person you fall for creates a model for how you approach relationships going forward. Like, it frames how you'll look at every person who you date after that.

~ Leila Sales

Don't you ever want to have just one thing that no one else knows about, so no one can ruin it for you?

~ Leila Sales

I liked projects where I could take things apart and figure out exactly how they worked. The problem is, you can't do that with people.

~ Leila Sales

This should have been a red flag, I realize in retrospect. Working really hard on anything is, by definition, not cool.

~ Leila Sales

There were people in this world who didn't know how to take care of others. There were people who walked away even when they'd made a promise to stand by you. There were people who threw around the word love but only acted on it when it was convenient for them.

~ Leila Sales

But you know better than anyone how the Internet sees everything and nothing, all at the same time.

~ Leila Sales

Nobody is so busy that they can't make time for the people they really care about.

~ Leila Sales

In Bio last year, I learned that blood is actually a dark maroon when it's inside your body. It's the exposure to oxygen that turns it bright red. And there must have been a lot of oxygen in my bathroom, because that blood was bright, bright red.

~ Leila Sales