Being Ok Quotes

“You’re lonely,” they say,
but it doesn’t scare me
anymore
for it teaches me,
and maybe that’s the biggest win from these years:
I don’t need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore,
like I always thought I would.
I don’t break mirrors anymore,
like I always thought I would.

I can finally stand myself,
and I never thought I would.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, You're Doing Just Fine

“Yes, I'm fine; yes, I'm always fine.
No, I'm not just saying that so
you'll leave me alone.”
― Rudy Francisco, I'll Fly Away

“No. I was not okay.
And neither was James Baldwin though his essays
Were perfect spinning platters of comprehension of the fight
To assert humanness in a black and white world.”
― Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise

“I'm fine," Georgie said.

"I can tell. Fine people are always telling everybody how fine they are.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Landline

“I never lied on how much I loved you, or needed you, or missed you. I only lie about me being OK.”
― Jeffrey Fry

“Her face, suddenly, contorts. The lips pinch and tighten. A hand crawls across the sheet. Lisa says, 'Are you all right?'

'No," says Claudia. 'But who is?”
― Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger

“I don’t know if I’ll ever be okay…but I’ll be.”
― H.C. Roberts, Harp and the Lyre: Extraction

“Through it all, the mourning doves say
There, there--which is to say, everything is all right.

I believe them. They have said this to me ever since childhood.
I hear them. I hear them and I get up.”
― Alberto Ríos, Not Go Away Is My Name