Claire Nelson > Quotes

“That’s what it always was for me. Wanting to capture it, preserve even the smallest, most stupid moments, so I could hold on to them for ever. So that they never had to end. Because in the back of my mind I knew that eventually, everything ends.”
― Claire Nelson, Things I Learned from Falling

“I’m fine’ was a mask I had become so comfortable wearing that I’d long forgotten I was still hiding behind it.”
― Claire Nelson, Things I Learned from Falling: A Memoir

“When you realize how much time you’ve wasted on fear, you sure as hell don’t want to spend any more of it being afraid.”
― Claire Nelson, Things I Learned from Falling: A Memoir

“I felt hollow, anxious, lost. It felt like my identity and self-worth were no longer linked to anything rooted, only in the fleeting and the temporary, things that would be gone again in a moment. Like a social-media post. Or my freelance work as a writer—features pitched, laboured over, published, only to become next month’s recycling.”
― Claire Nelson, Things I Learned from Falling: A Memoir