“The imbalance of power in the employee-employer relationship puts the onus on leaders to address fairness at work”
― Seeking Fairness at Work: Cracking the New Code of Greater Employee Engagement, Retention & Satisfaction
― Seeking Fairness at Work: Cracking the New Code of Greater Employee Engagement, Retention & Satisfaction
“And Tarquin,’ Semilla said quietly. ‘He has been in league with them all along?’
‘Yes, I am afraid so,’ Rupert confirmed.”
― The Girl with the Porcelain Lips
‘Yes, I am afraid so,’ Rupert confirmed.”
― The Girl with the Porcelain Lips
“The sunset bled into the edges of the village. Smoke curled out of the cottage chimney like a crooked finger.”
― Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
― Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
“That was his mother. When she wasn't crying over the breakfast cereal, she was laughing about killing herself.”
― About a Boy
― About a Boy
“Or else the cloud hovered, having barely left the lips, dense and slow, and suggested another vision: the exhalations that hang over the roofs of the metropolises, the opaque smoke that is not scattered, the hood of miasmata that weighs over the bituminous streets. Not the labile mists of memory nor the dry transparence, but the charring of burned lives that forms a scab on the city, the sponge swollen with vital matter that no longer flows, the jam of past, present, future that blocks existences calcified in the illusion of movement: this is what you would find at the end of your journey.”
― Invisible Cities
― Invisible Cities
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