Amanda

“Sometimes the bravest thing you can do is decide to leave when it is no longer wise to stay.”
― Chanel Cleeton, Next Year in Havana

“Love was both the softest edge and the sharpest edge of what made life real.”
― Susan Meissner, A Fall of Marigolds

“To be Cuban is to be proud—it is both our greatest gift and our biggest curse. We serve no kings, bow no heads, bear our troubles on our backs as though they are nothing at all. There is an art to this, you see. An art to appearing as though everything is effortless, that your world is a gilded one, when the reality is that your knees beneath your silk gown buckle from the weight of it all. We are silk and lace, and beneath them we are steel.”
― Chanel Cleeton, Next Year in Havana

“Work hard, know your shit, show your shit, and then feel entitled. Listen to no one except the two smartest and kindest adults you know, and that doesn't always mean your parents. If you do that, you will be fine.”
― Mindy Kaling, Why Not Me?