“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.” AnxietyMental HealthBroken PiecesAll The Little ThingsHeidi DischlerOkayness Author:Heidi Dischler
“All right. Couldn't you just lay your head right down on those words and rest? I wanted those words for my own. No matter how much things change or how time has passed, every single earthly creature pursued the promise of all right, and I was no different. We sought it out in the shelter of caves and underground hollows and in successful husbands and suburban neighborhoods with gates. We fought for it, and manipulated others to get it, and tried to buy it in our organic food and cars with every safety feature and tried to fake it with tough exteriors, and camouflage, and false hopes. We could want a sense of shelter, so badly that we could lose air until the panic of not having it was over, or we could ditch our lives in an instant. The desire for all right was perhaps the only thing we all-every human, every animal- truly had in common, even though the relentless drive for it could make us both stand against one another and seek out one another's warm and flawed company.” OkayDeb CalettiThe Secrets She KeepsAll RightOkayness Book:The Secrets She Keeps Source: The Secrets She Keeps