Cleyvis Natera > Quotes

“But I know a different choice would have led to a different regret. Wondering if the choices I didn’t make might’ve been the right ones? You just do your best each day with what you got.”
― Cleyvis Natera, Neruda on the Park

“think a scar is the reminder a body can survive great pain,” Eusebia said. “How even if a part of you dies, you can go on.”
― Cleyvis Natera, Neruda on the Park

“She couldn’t blame the writers she loved, who hadn’t prepared her for how difficult it was to make a real difference in the world.”
― Cleyvis Natera, The Grand Paloma Resort

“What will you do if everyone you love is about to lose everything they love? Will you let someone just take it all away?”
― Cleyvis Natera, Neruda on the Park

“What about a world where they could just be the way they were?”
― Cleyvis Natera, Neruda on the Park

“Emptiness, she knew, was a human-sized shape inside each of us—you could fill it with slimming suits or sky-high heels; one way or another, it gets filled.”
― Cleyvis Natera, Neruda on the Park

“Rejecting the path she wouldn’t follow was perhaps more important than knowing the one she did want to follow.”
― Cleyvis Natera, Neruda on the Park

“You have to know when to change, when to move, he’d said. Only the dumbest creatures stay in place, starve, thinking that what worked in the past will always be a solution in the present. But the change in their behavior doesn’t guarantee a better chance at survival,”
― Cleyvis Natera, The Grand Paloma Resort

“Each possibility leaves a trail ahead of you, and behind you, illuminated with the gold tint of pain.”
― Cleyvis Natera, Neruda on the Park