Kristina

“Every negotiation, every conversation, every moment of life, is a series of small conflicts that, managed well, can rise to creative beauty. Embrace them.”
― Chris Voss, Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It

“... and what happens slowly comes to life, unfolding in front of me like those reels of film of test dummies in cars being slowly smashed against a wall. I want to stop what is going to happen, but at the same time realise that it has already taken place. And that is, I think, the structure of tragedy.”
― Dexter Dias, The Ten Types of Human: A New Understanding of Who We Are, and Who We Can Be

“the pain didn’t go away, but its sharp edge had dulled and softened like sea glass.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

“She has learned not to be nervous in rooms in which people take note of each other, weigh up, write down, write off, avoid, eye up. She doesn't dream, she is simply at rest. Others seek peace of mind, Miranda had peace of eye.”
― Ingeborg Bachmann, Three Radio Plays: A Deal in Dreams; The Cicadas; The Good God of Manhattan