All The Little Things Quotes

“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

“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

“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

“...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

“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

“This was the furthest she’d ever get. It was the only place she could go that made her feel as if she was actually going somewhere. It was there that she sat on the state line. It was there that she crossed over into Utah and could be in a different place that wasn’t a pharmacy tech program, that wasn’t a life that she didn’t want.”
― Heidi Dischler, All the Little Things

“Losing someone that close to you doesn’t allow you to stay the same person you were before. She knew that, and so did he.”
― Heidi Dischler, All the Little Things

“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

“She knew better, though. Nothing was better or worse or easier. It was all just a different kind of darkness from her own.”
― Heidi Dischler, All the Little Things

“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

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

“One. Two. Three. Four.
You can breathe.
You’re not alone.
You’re okay.”
― Heidi Dischler, All the Little Things

“Caroline looked at the yellow walls. For the first time, she didn’t think about what color was beneath the yellow. She didn’t see black. She only saw what was really there.”
― Heidi Dischler, All the Little Things

“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