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 – An Uplifting Journey Through Desert Survival and Anxiety

“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 – An Uplifting Journey Through Desert Survival and Anxiety

“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 – An Uplifting Journey Through Desert Survival and Anxiety

“Why spend your life preparing when you can spend it living? Then again, what happens when you go out there and live unprepared and everything falls away?”
― Claire Nelson, Things I Learned from Falling