100 Quotes by Leila Sales

Sometimes you just have those days where everything goes wrong. But sometimes, and totally unexpectedly, something can go right.

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

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.

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.

That would make my job much easier. Unfortunately, the internet is like an elephant: it doesn't forget.

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.

And of course he was right, but there was still something in the idea that appealed to me, of cutting apart my body piece by piece, my skin and my brain and my lips and my tongue, giving it all away until there was nothing left in me for anyone to object to. Until I was just a pathetic collection of fingernails and veins, and everyone would feel guilty for their roles in tearing me to scraps.

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.