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This Song Will Save Your Life

Book by Leila Sales · 16 quotes · Life, Beautiful, Friendship

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“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.”

Love Life Friendship Friends Teenagers

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

People Change Who You Are

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“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.”

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“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.”

Cry Relentless Reprieve Worn Down

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“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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“Throughout it all, you are still, always, you: beautiful and bruised, known and unknowable.”

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“Throughout it all, you are still, always, you: beautiful and bruised, known and unknowable. And isn't that - just you - enough?”

Beautiful Suicide Being Yourself Bullying

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

Friendship Music Ya True Friends Leila Sales Tswsyl

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“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.”

Cutting Blood Oxygen

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“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 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?”

Self Esteem Contentment Self Acceptance Self Belief

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“Don't be special." That's what I would say to my younger self if I could pinpoint the moment when I went astray. But there was no one moment. I was always astray”

High School Awkward Popularity

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“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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“Anyone who said I believe in you obviously didn't know me very well.”

Know Me Believe In

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

Life Perfect Days Everything Goes Wrong

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“But I also felt like an eggshell that had gotten a tiny crack. You can’t repair something like that. All you can do is hope that it sticks together, hope that the crack doesn't grow until all your insides come spilling right out.”

Weak Repair Crack Stick Together Insides

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“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.”

Self Internet Versions Right

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