Melissa

“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

“Sometimes people do things to you that you can’t do anything about. You just have to survive it and go on.”
― Martha Wells, Artificial Condition

“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