Top 100 Leila Sales Quotes
#1. 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.
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#2. It wasn't an effect of alcohol. It was more like we got drunk on the night.
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#3. It was a ridiculous question. Did I _love_ Char? Did I feel about Char the same way I feel about the Beatles, string instruments in pop songs, the way Little Anthony sang high notes, the way Jerry Lee Lewis played piano?
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#4. Throughout it all, you are still, always, you: beautiful and bruised, known and unknowable.
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#5. As I rang the buzzer to his apartment building, I imagined him, maybe with a bunch of his friends, hiding behind a parked car, watching me, laughing, and saying, "Oh my God, I can't believe she actually showed up. Like she believed I was serious!
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#6. 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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#7. Isn't that funny, to think that the people who have lived in your daydreams for the past two weeks, the people whom you've drawn in your chemistry notebook, to think that those people might not even know who you are?
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#8. But you know better than anyone how the Internet sees everything and nothing, all at the same time.
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#9. I had always thought that if I just did something extraordinary enough, then people would like me. But that wasn't true. You will drive away everyone by being extraordinary ... . But you, you will never learn your lesson. The world embraces ordinary. The world will never embrace you.
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#10. Well, I will tell you: making friends is actually not that hard when you drop every single one of your standards.
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#11. 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.
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#12. 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?
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#13. 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.
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#14. Sometimes you have to give up something you are to get to who you want to be.
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#15. Which to you have?' Mel asked, blocking the entry with his body. 'Talent or issues?' I paused for a moment, thought about this. 'Both,' I said at last.
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#16. There are so many rules that you don't know, and no matter how much you study, you can't learn them all.
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#17. Anyone who said I believe in you obviously didn't know me very well.
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#18. 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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#19. 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.
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#21. 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.
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#22. Hurting people, really, deeply hurting them - that isn't something you do on purpose. It's just a by-product of living.
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#23. I didn't want to try to kill myself, didn't want the blood and the hysterical parents and the guilt, any of it. But sometimes I liked the idea of simply not having to be here anymore, not having to deal with my life. As if death could be just an extended vacation.
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#24. Char had a phone number. He had a home. He probably had a job or a college and a last name and parents and all of that, too. He didn't just spring into existence late on Thursday night and then blink out again at two a.m. He was a real person.
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#25. So it seems like all of history is concurrent. Its not a linear series of events. Its all happening simultaneously. There is one moment, and that moment is now, and we are always present in it.So Im not reenacting history so much as just living every time at once.
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#26. Nobody is so busy that they can't make time for the people they really care about.
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#27. Oh, yeah, any functioning society has got to have its doctors, its teachers, and its nightlife photographers.
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#28. It would just be like a movie makeover montage, pop music scoring the ugly girl's transformation from bespectacled duckling to cheerleader swan.
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#29. 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.
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#30. . . . and even the worst ice cream is better than no ice cream.
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#31. I didn't need to be the most exciting, beautiful, beloved girl in the world. I just needed not to be me anymore.
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#32. 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.
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#33. This is who Ezra is dating now. He is now into girls who are into dressing up as nineteenth century prostitutes. For the hats.
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#34. 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.
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#35. You were listening to some strangers when you could have benn listening to me talk about myself? Chelsea, how could you?
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#36. 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.
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#37. What can I say, I have a thing for guys in period dress, okay? That's just who I am.
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#38. Honestly, Elise, sometimes it's like you don't even go to this school.' 'Well, that is the goal,' I said.
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#39. I am already socially disabled; I don't need to be mentally disabled on top of that.
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#40. Fiona says that I have trouble moving on. That I cling to the past ... I knew that I would miss it. I'd miss the way my life used to be when I worked there. I always miss the way my life used to be, and the best way to prevent that is to not change my life very much.
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#41. Like all stories, the one you are about to read is a love story.
If it wasn't, what would be the point?
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#42. I feel sometimes like ... there are all these rules. Just to be a person
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#43. If Dan had ever wanted anything more, then I had killed that by ignoring him at Abbott's. That had been my one chance to confront him not as warring reenactors, but as two people, a girl and a boy, and I had killed it. I am the Charles Manson of relationships.
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#44. 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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#45. What really happened doesn't matter. What matters is how we agree to remember it.
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#46. I've spent most of my life perfecting the craft of living history. I have no practice at living in the present.
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#47. 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.
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#48. 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.
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#49. Vanilla and vanilla bean are two different flavors, and vanilla bean is a much more intense experience
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#50. What do you do when you say sorry, but that still isn't enough?
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#51. There are dangers everywhere, I wanted to explain to her. On the school bus, in the cafeteria, at Start, inside me. No parent - no one at all - can step in and vanquish every one of them.
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#52. 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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#53. 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.
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#54. People have to create some sort of art so they have something to think about other than their shitty lives.
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#55. Also, he was kind of cute. Not really, of course, since he was the enemy, and the enemy cannot possibly be cute. He was only cute enough to make me wish I could free my hands so that I could fix my hair. I mean, fix my hair, then punch him in the face, and then run.
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#56. And isn't that such a freeing thing, to talk to somebody who already feels like your journal?
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#57. 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.
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#58. I was smiling like a crazy person because I has just made a hundred people dance, I had just made a hundred people scream, I had just made a hundred people happy. I, Elise, using my own power, had made people happy.
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#59. I don't believe that anyone who is a legitimately interesting person can be popular as a teenager," Mel went on. "Or ever, maybe. Popularity rewards the uninteresting.
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#60. 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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#61. I had once thought that I wanted to get revenge by dying. But getting revenge by living, and living well, was much, much sweeter.
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#62. Music wasn't history class; I didn't need to memorize a thousand dates and names.
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#63. Sometimes you just have those days where everything goes wrong. But sometimes, and totally unexpectedly, something can go right.
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#64. 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.
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#65. 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.
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#66. Those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it.
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#67. 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.
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#68. Because if there's one thing we know about lesbians, it's that none of them wear bras.
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#69. If you want something to be amazing, if you really want it, do you think you can somehow make it become that way? Like you somehow imbue it with amazingness, even if it doesn't have anything special inherent to it?
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#70. Some people will tell you that honesty is the best policy, but I disagree. In instances like this, I fully believe that feigned ignorance is the best policy.
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#71. But imagination is so often no match for the absurdity, the randomness, the tragedy of reality.
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#72. I came here because I didn't want to be alone anymore" I answered him. "That's a good reason" he murmured.
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#73. Love means sometimes sacrificing the things you want in order to make somebody else happy. It means being there for them, even when maybe you don't feel like it, because they need you.
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#74. Those are pretty much the only questions people ask Colonials. If they want you to tell them anything else, just make it up. They will believe you, because you are wearing a costume.
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#75. Don't get me wrong, I love my parents and all. But my father and I have the sort of loving relationship in which, whenever he says more than one sentence in a a row to me, I want to stab myself in the heart with a a recently formed silver knife.
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#76. 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.
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#77. 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.
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#78. 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 does about you and your art. Trust me.
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#79. Of course, as always, there is an arbitrary, invisible fence in place. You can't see it, but it will always keep you out. It will always encircle happiness and keep you out.
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#80. I wasn't going anywhere, so how could I be going in the wrong direction?
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#81. 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.
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#82. 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.
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#83. Sacrificing everything that you care about in order to make another person happy is not love. It's not really that some people are gardeners and some people are flowers, Arden. It's that we both must be both, each in our own time.
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#84. So why are you letting your issues get in the way of your talent?
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#85. Some people were nice to you simply because they liked you.
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#86. We all want things that aren't good for us.
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#87. Because before the time when you're heartbroken, you get to be in love, and that's worth it.
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#88. 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.
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#89. I wasn't mad. I didn't need to scream and attack a piece of furniture. I just needed someone to like me.
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#90. 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.
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#91. You can't tell me my feelings are overwrought or absurd. You don't know. They are my feelings.
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#92. 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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#93. 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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#94. Theater class seemed like a way to play pretend, only with everyone paying attention to me.
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#95. The popular music wasn't interesting-bad, it was bad-bad. Auto-Tuned vocalists who couldn't really sing; offensively simplistic instrumentation; grating melodies. Like they thought we were stupid.
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#96. You were good."
It was a very small compliment, but it came from someone who mattered, about something that mattered. I felt a smile spread across my face. "Really?
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#97. 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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#98. I could not figure out what they were doing in an ice cream shop, since they couldn't possible eat calories. I imagined they just fed off the misery of less cool people.
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#99. Life is sort of like Goldilocks and the Three Bears, if you know what I mean. Some days are too big. Some days are much too small. But today was one of those rare days that was just right.
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#100. 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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