I always thought fainting showed an inherent weakness of character, bu…

Karen Marie Moning
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I always thought fainting showed an inherent weakness of character, but I understood it now. It was an act of self-preservation. Confronted by emotion too extreme to handle, the body shuts down to keep from running around like a chicken with its head cut off, potentially injuring itself. ✨ Karen Marie Moning (2011). Shadowfever: Fever Series, p.171, Delacorte Press
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