Quotes by Leila Sales

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

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

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

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Well, you can't have heartbreak without love," Dan pointed out. "If your heart was really broken, then at least you know you really loved him.

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

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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, ...

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

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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.

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

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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 y...

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The thing about being an artist," Dad said, folding his newspaper and setting it down on the table, "is that there are always going to be people who want to stop you from doing your art. But this usually says more about them and their issues than it ...

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

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

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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.

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

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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 cha...

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Sometimes, when you are worn down, day after day, relentlessly, with no reprieve for years piled on years, sometimes you lose everything but the ability to cry.

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

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

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Don't be special." That's what I would say to my younger self if I could pinpoint the moment when I went astray. But there was no one moment. I was always astray

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