Missy Angus
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Gaze detection, it’s called—our ability to sense when someone is observing us. An entire system of the human brain is devoted to this genetic inheritance from our ancestors, who relied on the trait to avoid becoming an animal’s prey.
“You can always judge a person by how they treat animals.”
― The House in the Cerulean Sea
― The House in the Cerulean Sea
“You’re overthinking it.’ ‘I have anxiety. I have no other type of thinking available.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”
― A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings
― A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings
“Regrets don’t leave. They weren’t mosquito bites. They itch for ever.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“All the eggs a woman will every carry form in her ovaries while she is a four-month-old foetus in the womb of her mother. This means our cellular life as en egg begins in the womb of our grandmother. Each of us spent five months in our grandmother's womb, and she in turn formed within the womb of her grandmother. We vibrate to the rhythms of our mother's blood before she herself is born, and this pulse is the thread of blood that runs all the way back through the grandmothers to the first mother.”
― When The Drummers Were Women: A Spiritual History of Rhythm
― When The Drummers Were Women: A Spiritual History of Rhythm
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