Leila Sales quotes: wise famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Leila Sales

Leila Sales Famous Quotes & Sayings

Discover top inspirational quotes from Leila Sales on Wise Famous Quotes.

Honestly, Elise, sometimes it's like you don't even go to this school.' 'Well, that is the goal,' I said.

A boy once told me that love without heartbreak is just a pretty myth.

Well, I will tell you: making friends is actually not that hard when you drop every single one of your standards.

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

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

What do you do when you say sorry, but that still isn't enough?

So why are you letting your issues get in the way of your talent?

I've spent most of my life perfecting the craft of living history. I have no practice at living in the present.

I am already socially disabled; I don't need to be mentally disabled on top of that.

Because if there's one thing we know about lesbians, it's that none of them wear bras.

There are so many rules that you don't know, and no matter how much you study, you can't learn them all.

I do want to believe that there's some place in the world that's more mature than high school," Vicky said. "But I haven't found it yet.

I am a good person. I like myself the way I am. Many people love and care about me. I have a purpose in life. I don't want to kill myself.

Walking at night is like walking in a dream. It's dark, so I don't notice much of the scenery. I don't wear my watch, so time becomes meaningless.

Look, the light turns yellow before it turns red, so if you see a yellow light, you might want to consider slowing the hell down.

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

Theater class seemed like a way to play pretend, only with everyone paying attention to me.

The white boots with unicorns printed on them because, even though I'm fifteen, I still think the unicorn would be the world's greatest animal.

And isn't that such a freeing thing, to talk to somebody who already feels like your journal?

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

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.

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

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

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.

I didn't need to be the most exciting, beautiful, beloved girl in the world. I just needed not to be me anymore.

I wasn't going anywhere, so how could I be going in the wrong direction?

Hurting people, really, deeply hurting them - that isn't something you do on purpose. It's just a by-product of living.

What can I say, I have a thing for guys in period dress, okay? That's just who I am.

But power was not friendship. And these people were not my friends.

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

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.

I wasn't mad. I didn't need to scream and attack a piece of furniture. I just needed someone to like me.

You will learn to love again

I feel sometimes like ... there are all these rules. Just to be a person

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

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

You were listening to some strangers when you could have benn listening to me talk about myself? Chelsea, how could you?

I held my arm out in front of me and twisted it back and forth. Palm up. Palm down. Now you look fractured. Now you look whole.

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

Oh, yeah, any functioning society has got to have its doctors, its teachers, and its nightlife photographers.

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

I came here because I didn't want to be alone anymore" I answered him. "That's a good reason" he murmured.

Vanilla and vanilla bean are two different flavors, and vanilla bean is a much more intense experience

It wasn't an effect of alcohol. It was more like we got drunk on the night.

Sally and Chava eat only raw vegetables for lunch because they are trying to lose weight. Then they split a pack of Entenmann's doughnuts for dessert.

. . . and even the worst ice cream is better than no ice cream.

What do you think, Elizabeth?" Dad turned to me.
"Um, my name's still Chelsea. Remember, you named me that yourself? When I was born?

But imagination is so often no match for the absurdity, the randomness, the tragedy of reality.

It would just be like a movie makeover montage, pop music scoring the ugly girl's transformation from bespectacled duckling to cheerleader swan.

You can't tell me my feelings are overwrought or absurd. You don't know. They are my feelings.

We all want things that aren't good for us.

There are some people who want to win at whatever they do, even if the things they do are not the sort of things one wins at.

I glared at him. "You came all the way to Essex just to spy on us?"
"Yeah." He smirked. "I crossed the street. It was really rough.

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

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

Anyone who said I believe in you obviously didn't know me very well.

No one saw me and no one knew, and for this reason, these nighttime walks were the only times that I didn't feel trapped in my life.

Those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it.

I had once thought that I wanted to get revenge by dying. But getting revenge by living, and living well, was much, much sweeter.

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.

This is who Ezra is dating now. He is now into girls who are into dressing up as nineteenth century prostitutes. For the hats.

Sometimes you have to give up something you are to get to who you want to be.

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.

Like all stories, the one you are about to read is a love story.
If it wasn't, what would be the point?

I'll pretend to be anyone or anything other than myself, but the problem is that no one is ever fooled.

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

But that's the thing: when you swear to take someone's side no matter what, sometimes you have to go to war for them.

It took me a minute more of standing there before I realized that I'd been dismissed. Before I
realized that a relationship can end just like that.