{"author":"Leila Sales","author_id":"Leila+Sales","total_quotes":35,"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"Leila Sales","tags":["friends","friendship","life","love","teenagers"],"id":10850,"author_id":"Leila+Sales"},{"text":"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.","author":"Leila Sales","tags":["care","love","loyalty"],"id":10930,"author_id":"Leila+Sales"},{"text":"This should have been a red flag, I realize in retrospect. Working really hard on anything is, by definition, not cool.","author":"Leila Sales","tags":["hard-work","not-cool","uncool"],"id":30700,"author_id":"Leila+Sales"},{"text":"I think love without heartbreak is a myth. A pretty myth, but the kind of myth that ultimately makes us feel worse about ourselves because we're somehow not able to make it come true.","author":"Leila Sales","tags":["love","past-perfect","romance"],"id":31456,"author_id":"Leila+Sales"},{"text":"But you know better than anyone how the Internet sees everything and nothing, all at the same time.","author":"Leila Sales","tags":["internet","seeing-things"],"id":58574,"author_id":"Leila+Sales"},{"text":"Don't you ever want to have just one thing that no one else knows about, so no one can ruin it for you?","author":"Leila Sales","tags":["secrets"],"id":66454,"author_id":"Leila+Sales"},{"text":"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.","author":"Leila Sales","tags":["music"],"id":67464,"author_id":"Leila+Sales"},{"text":"Because before the time when you're heartbroken, you get to be in love, and that's worth it.","author":"Leila Sales","tags":["falling-in-love","heartbreak","love"],"id":72203,"author_id":"Leila+Sales"},{"text":"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.","author":"Leila Sales","tags":["blood","cutting","oxygen"],"id":90620,"author_id":"Leila+Sales"},{"text":"History doesn't intend to have some particular emotional value, or any particular moral. History doesn't have any intentions at all. It's just a never-ending web of events that can have pretty much any meaning at all. But we, in retrospect, make this web into a story that makes sense. We superimpose onto it a beginning, middle, and end. We decide who the main characters are, the good guys and the bad guys. We decide what the moral of the story is, and how everyone is supposed to feel about it.'But history is facts,' I said. 'It's not a matter of opinion.'To a certain extent,' Dad granted. 'The facts matter, to a certain extent. You can't create a story without some facts to base it on. But what 'really happened' doesn't matter. What matters is how we agree to remember it.","author":"Leila Sales","tags":["history"],"id":91257,"author_id":"Leila+Sales"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":35,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}