Leila Sales quotes:

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.