Top 50 Leila Sales Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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.”

— Leila Sales

2. “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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3. “Nobody is so busy that they can’t make time for the people they really care about.”

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

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5. “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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6. “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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7. “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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8. “Because throughout it all, you are still, always, you; beautiful and bruised, known and unknowable. And isn’t that- just you- enough?”

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9. “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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10. “Vanilla and vanilla bean are two different flavors, and vanilla bean is a much more intense experience.”

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11. “I had this feeling suddenly. I get this feeling a lot, but I don’t know if there’s one word for it. It’s not nervous or sad or even lonely. It’s all of that, and then a bit more. The feeling is I don’t belong here. I don’t know how I got here, and I don’t know how long I can stay before everyone else realizes that I am an impostor. I am a fraud. I’ve gotten this feeling nearly everywhere I have ever been in my life. There’s nothing you can do about it except drink some water and hope that it subsides. Or you can leave.”

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12. “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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13. “A boy once told me that love without heartbreak is just a pretty myth.”

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14. “There were people in this world who didn’t know how to take care of others. There were people who walked away even when they’d made a promise to stand by you. There were people who threw around the word love but only acted on it when it was convenient for them.”

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15. “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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16. “What really happened doesn’t matter. What matters is how we agree to remember it.”

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17. “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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18. “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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19. “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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20. “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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21. “Maybe loving somebody means simply they bring out the best in you, and you bring out the best in them – so that together, you are always the best possible versions of yourselves.”

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

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23. “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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24. “I had this feeling suddenly. I get this feeling a lot, but I don’t know if there’s one word for it. It’s not nervous or sad or even lonely. It’s all of that, and then a bit more.”

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25. “It was weird. But being friends with Vicky had made me realize that some people were just like that. Some people were nice to you, simply because they liked you.”

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26. “I am already socially disabled; I don’t need to be mentally disabled on top of that.”

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27. “Music wasn’t history class; I didn’t need to memorize a thousand dates and names.”

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28. “You will learn to love again.”

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29. “Your drive away everyone by being extraordinary. The world embraces ordinary. The world will never embrace you.”

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30. “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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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. “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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33. “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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34. “What do you think it takes to reinvent yourself as an all-new person, a person who makes sense, who belongs? Do you change your clothes, your hair, your face? Go on, then. Do it. Pierce your ears, trim your bangs, buy a new purse. They will still see past that, see you, the girl who is still too scared, still too smart for her own good, still a beat behind, still, always, wrong. Change all you want; you can’t change that.”

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35. “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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36. “So why are you letting your issues get in the way of your talent?”

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37. “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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38. “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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39. “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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40. “We all want things that aren’t good for us.”

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

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43. “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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44. “Because if there’s one thing we know about lesbians, it’s that none of them wear bras.”

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45. “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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46. “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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47. “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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48. “I wasn’t going anywhere, so how could I be going in the wrong direction?”

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49. “Some people were nice to you simply because they liked you.”

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50. “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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