The Last Train to Key West Quotes

“People ask how you’re doing, but they don’t really want to know if you’re struggling or not; they want the answer that enables them to go about their day without feeling guilty.”
― Chanel Cleeton, The Last Train to Key West

“You can live a fair share of adventures in other people’s stories.”
― Chanel Cleeton, The Last Train to Key West

“It’s strange how quickly everything can change. How your life can be on one path, and suddenly, you’re on a completely different one with little to no warning at all, ill-prepared for the challenges ahead.”
― Chanel Cleeton, The Last Train to Key West

“Life happens whether you’re worrying about it or not, and it seems presumptuous to think we have much of a say in how things play out.”
― Chanel Cleeton, The Last Train to Key West

“The day we stop fighting for others is the day we might as well pack it all up and go home.”
― Chanel Cleeton, The Last Train to Key West

“The world has expectations of you, of how you shoulder your burdens with grace, of the role you play....
We are defined by what we do for others, by our relationships, by what we have to offer.”
― Chanel Cleeton, The Last Train to Key West

“hate to tell you, but there’s no such thing as a ‘right time’ in life. Things happen when they need to happen. The rest sort of falls into place.”
― Chanel Cleeton, The Last Train to Key West

“Maybe a man loses his right to be called a husband when he raises his fists to someone he should be protecting.”
― Chanel Cleeton, The Last Train to Key West

“People are a mystery, and the second you think you have them figured out, they surprise you.”
― Chanel Cleeton, The Last Train to Key West

“There’s so much broken around us; maybe all we can do is try to fix each other, do what we can to preserve these precious moments in a world where there is so much sadness and loss.”
― Chanel Cleeton, The Last Train to Key West

“We are defined by what we do for others, by our relationships, by what we have to offer.”
― Chanel Cleeton, The Last Train to Key West

“What will I tell my child when it asks how I could have left? What would I have told my child if it asked how I could have stayed?”
― Chanel Cleeton, The Last Train to Key West

“Marriage is complicated. It’s no easy thing to bind yourself to another, for their moods to dictate yours, for your needs to come second to theirs, to bend yourself to the will of another. It’s exhausting,”
― Chanel Cleeton, The Last Train to Key West

“The running of this world is left to men, and quite frankly, I’m not impressed with what they’ve done with it.”
― Chanel Cleeton, The Last Train to Key West

“You got steel in you, and it’s time you believed it.”
― Chanel Cleeton, The Last Train to Key West

“Why is it that when men approach women as conquests to be won they are lauded, but when women decide to go on a hunt of their own, they’re branded as too aggressive, too eager, too greedy? Your sex didn’t corner the market on ambition. Or a love of the chase.”
― Chanel Cleeton, The Last Train to Key West

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― Chanel Cleeton, The Last Train to Key West

“People are what circumstances make them.”
― Chanel Cleeton, The Last Train to Key West

“In my experience, lots of people say lots of stupid things. Fear and panic make them search for scapegoats.”
― Chanel Cleeton, The Last Train to Key West

“I like talking to people, learning about their lives. You can live a fair share of adventures in other people's stories.”
― Chanel Cleeton, The Last Train to Key West

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― Chanel Cleeton, The Last Train to Key West

“After all, what more do we want than for someone to see us as we are, to acknowledge our pain, and to offer a moment of relief?”
― Chanel Cleeton, The Last Train to Key West

“If you’d loved Billy, you would have never let him give you up.” “And how would I have achieved that? If a man’s made his mind up to go, I very much doubt there’s anything a woman can do to stop him.” “Then you underestimate yourself. I don’t believe any man can walk away from you without regretting it.”
― Chanel Cleeton, The Last Train to Key West