Leila Sales, This Song Will Save Your Life
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"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."
"Sometimes you just have those days where everything goes wrong. But sometimes, and totally unexpectedly, something can go right."
"You may wonder how I managed to make these friends. Well, I will tell you. Making friends is actually not that hard when you drop every single one of your standards."
"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."
"This wasn't how I imagined things going. But imagination is so often no match for the absurdity, the randomness, the tragedy of reality."
"Tonight the Internet seemed filled with versions of me, like a fun house filled with mirrors. Some of them made me look prettier, and some of them made me look uglier, and some of them chopped me right in half, but none of them were right."
"Throughout it all, you are still, always, you: beautiful and bruised, known and unknowable. And isn't that - just you - enough?"
"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."
"Throughout it all, you are still, always, you: beautiful and bruised, known and unknowable."
"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."
"Some people were nice to you simply because they liked you."
"People have to create some sort of art so they have something to think about other than their shitty lives."
"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."
"Don't you ever want to have just one thing that no one else knows about, so no one can ruin it for you?"
"This should have been a red flag, I realize in retrospect. Working really hard on anything is, by definition, not cool."
"But you know better than anyone how the Internet sees everything and nothing, all at the same time."