Things I Learned from Falling 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

“Everyone, I think, has those places or environments that bring them calm and clarity. I can be alone with my thoughts any old place – at home, in bed, in the corner of some coffee shop somewhere – but there’s something about being outdoors and away from civilization, on a path, just putting one foot in front of the other, that helps me to metabolize my emotion in a way that nothing else seems to do. Walking alone affords me the time and the space to discard mental clutter, air out my ideas, stretch my emotional legs and simultaneously to breathe, feel a sense of calm and be absolutely, unequivocally present. I can’t think of any other instance where I can successfully do that.”
― Claire Nelson, Things I Learned from Falling

“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