I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O'Farrell

"...I have an instinct for the onset of violence...If, as a child, you are struck or hit, you will never forget that sense of your own powerlessness and vulnerability, of how a situation can turn from benign to brutal in the blink of an eye, in the space of a breath. That sensibility will run in your veins, like an antibody. You learn fairly quickly to recognise the approach of these sudden acts against you: that particular pitch or vibration in the atmosphere."  

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I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O'Farrell