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.

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

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

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.

This should have been a red flag, I realize in retrospect. Working really hard on anything is, by definition, not cool.

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.

Don't you ever want to have just one thing that no one else knows about, so no one can ruin it for you?

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.