“We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.”
― Night Train to Lisbon
― Night Train to Lisbon
“To move, to breathe, to fly, to float,
To gain all while you give,
To roam the roads of lands remote,
To travel is to live.”
― The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography
To gain all while you give,
To roam the roads of lands remote,
To travel is to live.”
― The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography
“It never occurred to me that our lives, until then so closely interwoven, could unravel and separate over a thing like that. But the fact was, I suppose, there were powerful tides tugging us apart by then, and it only needed something like that to finish the task. If we'd understood that back then-who knows?-maybe we'd have kept a tighter hold of one another.”
― Never Let Me Go
― Never Let Me Go
“No matter how bad you want a person, if your hearts are in two different places, you’ll have to pass and move on.”
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“Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence."
(Harvard Business School definition of leadership)”
― Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
(Harvard Business School definition of leadership)”
― Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Kristy’s 2025 Year in Books
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