Leila Sales Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I know the Smiths," I snapped, because lord knows you can launch any kind of criticism at me, lord knows I've heard it all before, but don't you dare doubt my musical knowledge. There's not much I can do right, just this one thing, but you cannot take this one thing from me.

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.

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

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.

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

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