I Choose Elena Quotes

“I am like this with most things. Acceptance and loss are profoundly difficult for me to process. I am overly sentimental. I hoard things. I cling to memories even when they have become to distant that they feel like fantasies. As David Foster Wallace famously wrote “Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it”
― Lucia Osborne-Crowley, I Choose Elena

“It is shame that silences us, and spreads our silence to others. It is a deadly contagion. If shame is erasure, then its opposite must surely be our insistence on structure: on shape, on form. It must surely be a relentless insistence on being seen. On telling the truth.”
― Lucia Osborne-Crowley, I Choose Elena