I was born in 1984, and I grew up outside of Boston, Massachusetts, with my parents and our cat. Why would they deserve to have control over your life? Because they’re cool? Because they’re pretty? That’s completely illogical.” - Leila Sales, This Song Will Save Your Life But hurting yourself is giving those people all the power, and they don’t deserve it. “Some people will mess with you, whenever they want, and for no reason except that they can. But getting revenge by living, and living well, was much, much sweeter.” - Leila Sales, This Song Will Save Your Life “I had once thought that I wanted to get revenge by dying. “I don’t believe that anyone who is a legitimately interesting person can be popular as a teenager.” - Leila Sales, This Song Will Save Your Life “Throughout it all, you are still, always, you: beautiful and bruised, known and unknowable.” - Leila Sales, This Song Will Save Your Life “Popularity rewards the uninteresting.” - Leila Sales, This Song Will Save Your Life But this usually says more about them and their issues than it does about you and your art.” - Leila Sales, This Song Will Save Your Life
“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. (Sept.“I believe that a person’s taste in music tells you a lot about them.” - Leila Sales, This Song Will Save Your Life Agent: Stephen Barbara, Foundry Literary + Media. Sales (Past Perfect) fills her third YA novel with honest insights about high school’s cruel politics, tender conversations between Elise and her equally struggling parents, and visceral descriptions of life as a DJ: “It felt like invisible veins and arteries ran between me and every person in that room, communicating information between us instantly and noiselessly.” Ages 12–up. Elise is a complex, well-drawn character, and it’s easy to relate to her sense of feeling like an outsider (“There are so many rules that you don’t know, and no matter how much you study, you can’t learn them all”). But as talented, driven Elise spends more nights sneaking out to learn how to DJ (and kiss Char), her double life spins out of control. There, an aspiring musician befriends her, and she catches the eye of Char, a cute DJ who agrees to teach her to mix music. Walking alone one night soon after a halfhearted suicide attempt, the 16-year-old inadvertently ends up at an underground nightclub. Elise has endured a lifetime of social isolation and bullying at school.
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