This Song Will Save Your Life
Leila Sales
Top 10 Best 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.”
“You think it's so easy to change yourself. You think it's so easy, but it's not. True, things don't stay the same forever: couches are replaced, boys leave, you discover a song, your body becomes forever scarred. And with each of these moments you change and change again, your true self spinning, shifting positions-- but always at last it returns to you, like a dancer on the floor. Because throughout it all, you are still, always, you: beautiful and bruised, known and unknowable. And isn't that - just you - enough.”
“People are who they are and, try as you might, you cannot make them be what you want them to be.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Don't you ever want to have just one thing that no one else knows about, so no one can ruin it for you?”
“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.”
“Throughout it all, you are still, always, you: beautiful and bruised, known and unknowable.”
“Sometimes you just have those days where everything goes wrong. But sometimes, and totally unexpectedly, something can go right.”
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