Anaphylaxis, Richet observed, is one of three outcomes of vaccination.
“Though the conference I’d received a grant to attend was still a few months off, it was already starting to bug me. The plane could crash. I could be raped and murdered. I could get stress cancer from excessive dread beforehand. To put it succinctly, my life could be torn asunder. All in the attempt to score a few idiotic career advancement points with my department chair and a colleague who hardly knew what my name was and certainly had no idea what my research interests were.”
― The Marvelous Misadventures of Ingrid Winter
― The Marvelous Misadventures of Ingrid Winter
“and beware of trying to classify people too definitely into types; you will find that all through their youth they will persist annoyingly in jumping from class to class, and by pasting a supercilious label on every one you meet you are merely packing a Jack-in-the-box that will spring up and leer at you when you begin to come into really antagonistic contact with the world. ”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise
“You do care," said Dumbledore. He had not flinched or made a single move to stop Harry demolishing his office. His expression was calm, almost detached. "You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.”
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“These findings strengthen the argument that the brain exerts some kind of control over specific body parts according to how strongly we own them.”
― The Peanut Allergy Epidemic: What's Causing It and How to Stop It
― The Peanut Allergy Epidemic: What's Causing It and How to Stop It
“LIFE IS NOT A PARAGRAPH. I think about the bundle of clothes on the side of the track and I feel as though my throat is closing up. Life is not a paragraph, and death is no parenthesis. EVENING”
― The Girl on the Train
― The Girl on the Train
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