“Beautiful” never quite matches up to the other things you could be: smart, interesting, brave.”
― When We Left Cuba
― When We Left Cuba
“The problems we face today eventually turn into blessings in the rearview mirror of life. In time, yesterday’s red light leads us to a greenlight. All destruction eventually leads to construction, all death eventually leads to birth, all pain eventually leads to pleasure. In this life or the next, what goes down will come up.”
― Greenlights
― Greenlights
“The only way to stop being afraid of something is to confront it. To take away its power over you.”
― When We Left Cuba
― When We Left Cuba
“I do know that there are a lot of things I didn’t do as a kid that I shouldn’t have done, because I didn’t want to get my ass whupped. I also know that I did a lot of things as a kid that I should have done, because I wanted my parents’ praise and adulation. Consequences, they work both ways.”
― Greenlights
― Greenlights
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