Heidi Dischler > Quotes

“You’re not broken. You’re just a little lost, that’s all. Okay?”
― Heidi Dischler, All the Little Things

“His broken pieces wouldn’t fill the holes from her missing ones. They both had to learn how to be okay alone before they could learn how to be okay together.”
― Heidi Dischler

“Being alone,” she started, “isn’t exactly something I’m good at doing. Every time I try to be alone—even when I know that someone I know isn’t too far away—I start... panicking, I guess.” Caroline stopped to take a breath, feeling like what she was saying was the most draining conversation she had ever had in her life. “So, when I come out here, I can convince myself that I’m fine. I can almost get it to where I’ll believe that I can function like a normal human being because if I can go to another state and be alone, I should be able to do anything.”
― Heidi Dischler, All the Little Things

“She understood how he felt. She knew what it felt like to want something, to make sure that you don’t mess it up, to feel vulnerable around someone, to just be in another person’s company while overanalyzing yourself. It was emotionally exhausting.”
― Heidi Dischler, All the Little Things

“Healing is a choice that you have to make every day. You can't heal until you make the decision to do it.”
― Heidi Dischler, Words We Never Say

“Don't let the fact that you're afraid of change stop you from saying how you really feel.”
― Heidi Dischler, Words We Never Say

“Caroline felt numb. She felt out of control. She felt so distant from herself that she could hardly make her feet move. But she was moving. She had to remember that. She and Izzy were moving, and Caroline had to keep going. We keep going.”
― Heidi Dischler, All the Little Things

“I always believed that when I found the person I loved that would be it. She would always be the one. So, if that’s the case, then that means I’m—”
“Alone,” Jessie finished. “It feels the same way for me.”
― Heidi Dischler, You Were Always There

“That's the thing, though: Addy was the beginning of spring and Jessie was the dead of winter.”
― Heidi Dischler, You Were Always There

“Maybe I’m scared. Maybe I can’t lose anyone else so I’m shutting them out. Maybe I feel like I’m just not good enough for them.”
― Heidi Dischler, You Were Always There

“How can you love someone when there are so many different ways that they can break your trust?”
― Heidi Dischler, You Were Always There

“Do you think it gets easier?” Jessie asked. It felt like she wasn’t really asking Andrew that question. More like she was asking the darkness—the emptiness around her—hoping for an answer that it just couldn’t give.”
― Heidi Dischler, You Were Always There

“Keep your eyes on the light and remember that even if I battled with the darkness, you always helped me to win.”
― Heidi Dischler, You Were Always There

“What were people supposed to say to her? There was nothing. Always nothing.”
― Heidi Dischler, You Were Always There

“It’s okay to have hope,” he said gently. “But it’s also okay to have hope from a distance.”
― Heidi Dischler, You Were Always There

“...she imagined the yellow wallpaper peeling away, strip by strip. She wondered what color would be underneath. Probably black.”
― Heidi Dischler, All the Little Things

“They made me feel less than human, but you made me feel like I belonged somewhere.”
― Heidi Dischler, You Were Always There

“My dad left as soon as those two little pink lines showed up on the test. My stepfather is an abusive addict who literally couldn’t care less if I died. And my mom? Well, maybe she’s the worst of them all because she’s the one who showed me what love is. She’s the one who made me believe but she is the one who took it all away.”
― Heidi Dischler, You Were Always There

“How had she become so thoroughly trapped? And it wasn’t like she was forced to stay there. It wasn’t like someone was telling her that she didn’t have other options. She had done it to herself—let the darkness in, let it consume her—and now the darkness wouldn’t let her leave.”
― Heidi Dischler, All the Little Things

“But I stopped showing them my emotions—I stopped feeling when I was around them—because having emotions meant you had weaknesses. Having weaknesses meant that people could find ways to hurt you. So, when I start to feel too much, I shut down. It’s the only thing I know.”
― Heidi Dischler, You Were Always There

“Even if she didn’t experience the same pain as he did, she knew what it felt like to wonder if you were going to disappear.”
― Heidi Dischler, All the Little Things

“I know the woman I grew up with is still in there. She’s just waiting until she finally feels safe enough to reappear.”
― Heidi Dischler, You Were Always There

“She had wanted him to fix her, but she had known they both couldn’t put their broken pieces together to make one whole person.”
― Heidi Dischler, All the Little Things

“Don’t discount another person’s trauma just because you think yours might be greater. The grief and sorrow are still there for both of you.”
― Heidi Dischler, You Were Always There

“You always made me feel like I belonged even if I know that I don’t.”
― Heidi Dischler

“The memories hurt, but the ones before Richard—the good ones—hurt even more because they gave her the hope of what had been.”
― Heidi Dischler, You Were Always There

“You taught me how to live. How to trust people. How to feel like I belonged somewhere. You taught me how to have fun. But now, after everything, I feel like all you’ve ever really taught me was how to lose.”
― Heidi Dischler, You Were Always There

“You can’t stop living life even when the people you love most leave you.”
― Heidi Dischler, All the Little Things

“She had spent too much of her life being weighed down by other people’s decisions.”
― Heidi Dischler, You Were Always There

“She felt a little lighter for saying what she had said. It didn’t change anything, but the burden of carrying around those thoughts alone was gone.”
― Heidi Dischler, You Were Always There