When We Left Cuba

by Chanel Cleeton

“The only way to stop being afraid of something is to confront it. To take away its power over you.”

If I’m going to have regrets in this life, I’d rather them be for the chances I took and not the opportunities I let slip away.

Love ebbs and flows, a low-level hum in the background, but anger sinks its claws in you and refuses to let go.

it’s not simply a matter of will or desire; some things are perpetually out of our reach, and no matter how badly we wish it were otherwise, there are some battles whose outcomes are decided not in our hands, but in the stars.

Dreams never die all at once. They die in pieces, floating a little farther and farther away each day.