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"The Avis WIZARD decides if you get to drive a car. Your head won't touch the

pillow of a Sheraton unless their computer says it's okay."

most. If I could be alone, I would. Gratefully. I’d rather be alone than have to pretend I’m okay. But they won’t give me that option. So I’ll settle for being with someone who at least doesn’t love me as much. I’m thankful for Margot. Not that I tell her this. Not that I tell her anything. I don’t.

Katja Millay

her ear. She was stick-thin and pretty, with a loose pink top that let her breasts sway and rose-colored tight pants, but other than her Vegas body, she wasn’t making any effort to look glamorous. Her brown hair hung limply to her shoulders in a mess of curls. She hadn’t put on makeup or jewelry, except for a gold bracelet that she twisted nervously around her wrist with her other hand. The whites of her eyes were lined with red. Amanda began to approach her but found her way blocked by a giant Samoan in a Hawaiian shirt, obviously a bodyguard. She discreetly flashed her badge. The man asked if she could wait, then lumbered over to Tierney and whispered in her ear. The girl studied Amanda, murmured something to the Samoan, and went back to her phone call. “Mrs. Dargon wonders if she could talk to you in her limo,” the bodyguard told Amanda. “It’s waiting outside. There’s a picture of Mr. Dargon on the door.” Amanda shrugged. “Okay.” She found the limo without any problem. Samoa had obviously radioed to the driver, who was waiting for her with the door open. He was in his sixties, and he tipped his black hat to Amanda as she got in. “There’s champagne if you’d like,” he told her. “We have muffins, too, but don’t take the blueberry oatmeal muffin. That’s Mrs. Dargon’s favorite.” Amanda smiled. “She

Brian Freeman

This is a nation of runaways. Every person comes from somewhere else. Even the Indians, they run once upon a time across the Alaskan land bridge. The blacks, they maybe didn't run from Africa, okay, but they ran from slavery. And the rest of us, we all ran from something. From the church, the state, the parents, the Irish potato bug. And I think this is why Americans are so restless.

Rebecca Makkai

He’s breathing like he’s lost his mind and he’s looking at me like something has broken inside of him, like he’s woken up to find that his nightmares were just that, that they never existed, that it was all just a bad dream that felt far too real but now he’s awake and he’s safe and everything is going to be okay and I’m falling. I’m falling apart and into his heart and I’m a disaster.

Tahereh Mafi

Part of me wishes I could see him; I want to make sure he's really going to be okay, that he's recovering well and eating enough and getting sleep at night. But another part of me is afraid to see him now. Because seeing Adam means saying good-bye. It means recognizing that I can't be with him anymore and knowing that I have to find a new life for myself. Alone.

Tahereh Mafi

If he’s not calling you, it’s because you are not on his mind. If he creates expectations for you, and then doesn’t follow through on little things, he will do same for big things. Be aware of this and realize that he’s okay with disappointing you. Don’t be with someone who doesn’t do what they say they’re going to do. If he’s choosing not to make a simple effort that would put you at ease and bring harmony to a recurring fight, then he doesn’t respect your feelings and needs. “Busy” is another word for “asshole.” “Asshole” is another word for the guy you’re dating. You deserve a fcking phone call.

Greg Behrendt

Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?

Audrey Niffenegger

I know exactly what my future looks like and I'm okay with it. I'm happy to live in solitude. I'm not afraid of spending the rest of my life in the company of my own person. I do not afraid loneliness.

Tahereh Mafi

A famous writer who wants to continue writing has to be constantly defending himself against fame. I don't really like to say this because it never sounds sincere, but I would really have liked for my books to have been published after my death, so I wouldn't have to go through all this business of fame and being a great writer. In my case, the only advantage to fame is that I have been able to give it a political use. Otherwise, it is quite uncomfortable. The problem is that you're famous for twenty-four hours a day, and you can't say, "Okay, I won't be famous until tomorrow," or press a button and say, "I won't be famous here or now."

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Nubs?” the doctor asked. “It’s okay,” Charlie said. “He’s our dog. He isn’t a person or anything.” “I would hope not.” “Sometimes he eats his own poop,” Charlie explained.

Ania Ahlborn

It's much easier to not know things sometimes. Things change and friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody. I wanted to laugh. Or maybe get mad. Or maybe shrug at how strange everybody was, especially me. I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and than make the choice to share it with other people. You can't just sit their and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things. I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. And I'm going to figure out what that is. And we could all sit around and wonder and feel bad about each other and blame a lot of people for what they did or didn't do or what they didn't know. I don't know. I guess there could always be someone to blame. It's just different. Maybe it's good to put things in perspective, but sometimes, I think that the only perspective is to really be there. Because it's okay to feel things. I was really there. And that was enough to make me feel infinite. I feel infinite.

Stephen Chbosky

Do you have doubts about life? Are you unsure if it is really worth the trouble? Look at the sky: that is for you. Look at each person's face as you pass them on the street: those faces are for you. And the street itself, and the ground under the street, and the ball of fire underneath the ground: all these things are for you. They are as much for you as they are for other people. Remember this when you wake up in the morning and think you have nothing. Stand up and face the east. Now praise the sky and praise the light within each person under the sky. It's okay to be unsure. But praise, praise, praise.

Miranda July

girl reached across her desk and pulled the computer keyboard over. “What’s his name?” she said. “Crowley,” Julianna said, surprised. “Christopher Wayne Crowley.” “I shouldn’t do this.” The girl looked back up at Genevieve and laughed. “But fuck it, right?” GENEVIEVE’S DISAPPEARANCE FROM the state fair had been news for about a day. Okay, maybe for a couple of weeks. She was beautiful—the Daily Oklahoman ran her picture with every story, a photo of her from the previous year’s U. S. Grant High School yearbook. Genevieve had thought the photo

Lou Berney

He was gone, and I did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at the time because we could not see the future. If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can’t know better until knowing better is useless. And as I walked back to give Takumi’s note to the Colonel, I saw that I would never know. I would never know her well enough to know her thoughts in those last minutes, would never know if she left us on purpose. But the not-knowing would not keep me from caring, and I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.

John Green

I'm a grenade and at some point I'm going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, okay?

John Green

Everything was okay, as long as I could dream. Its amazing, really, the difference between having a dream and not having any left that can come true. It's the difference between living and dying.

Alicia Witt

It’s not okay to send a feeble kid out to fight our battles, and it’s not okay to push people around like pawns on a fuckin chessboard and it’s not okay giving orders to kill like a Mafia boss.

Stephen King

It’s going to be okay, child. You’re going to make it. God does everything for a reason, leaves nothing to chance, does it all, plans it all, all with purpose, all with meaning, all with love, all with care, all with . . . “ The old man hesitated a moment and his smile broadened. “And if there’s one thing I’ve learned in my 93 years on this little clump of dirt, God does it with wonderful style and timing. In His way and in His time.

Skip Coryell

I was okay. She was okay. We were okay. Nothing else matters.

Aly Martinez

>Okay. Come on.” And really, isn’t that just what every girl wants to hear from a guy agreeing to fuck her? But I wasn’t like every girl.

Pepper Winters

I'm saying that I'm a moody, insecure, narrow-minded, jealous, borderline homicidal bitch, and I want you to promise me that you're okay with that, because it's who I am, and you're what I need.

Jeaniene Frost

That’s okay, baby. I don’t need to know your name, just need to know how hard you like it.

River Savage

He terrifies me, Aunt Peg.” I don’t have the backbone to say it to her face. “Oliver is such a self-contained person. He’s always so calm, so at ease, so refined. I’m the one who’s always losing my mind over nothing. He is unbelievably amazing in a way I don’t know if I can reciprocate. His voice is calm and patient. It makes me feel like he will sit me down and tell me everything’s going to be okay. And his eyes. Have you seen his eyes? They’re so kind and gentle.

Elisa Marie Hopkins

If there's one thing I've learned, it's this: We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.

David Levithan

Crystal said, “Okay, sweetie. I’m on my way. Give me five minutes to put on a garter belt under my raincoat. I’ll be there in forty minutes.” She also asked Brett to wait downstairs for her in the rain with an umbrella, so she wouldn’t get drenched walking to the front of his apartment complex. He waited and waited and waited. Three hours later, it occurred to him like a stunning revelation: No booty cometh.

Sherry Argov

It's not necessary. My nightmares are usually about losing you,” he says. “I'm okay once I realize you're here.

Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.

Stephen Chbosky

>Okay, so maybe you are the world’s authority on the art of making butter sculptures of dead presidents’ heads, but if you want to sell a book on the subject you’ll have to do more than know your stuff. You’ll need to make the idea sound sexy, or cool, or hot, or timely, or cute, or something that instantly makes it clear to people why the world needs your book.

Sam Barry

If one thing is dominating during a particular season, that's okay, as long as adjustments are made to other areas.

Jessica N. Turner

Mom. I have something to tell you. I’m undead. Now, I know you may have some preconceived notions about the undead. I know you may not be comfortable with the idea of me being undead. But I’m here to tell you that undead are just like you and me … well, okay. Possibly more like me than you.

Cassandra Clare

Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. "I'm okay" we say. "I'm alright". But sometimes the truth arrives on you and you can't get it off. That's when you realize that sometimes it isn't even an answer--it's a question. Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.

Markus Zusak

My nightmares are usually about losing you. I'm okay once I realize you're here.

Suzanne Collins

Maybe 'okay' will be our 'always

John Green

I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.

Madonna

>Okay, Okay -- I admit it.  You didn't change that program that worked

just a little while ago; I inserted some random characters into the

executable.  Please forgive me.  You can recover the file by typing in

the code over again, since I also removed the source.

Fortune Cookie

Woody: What's happening, Mr. Peterson?

Norm:  The question is, Woody, why is it happening to me?

        -- Cheers, Strange Bedfellows, Part 1

Woody: What's going down, Mr. Peterson?

Norm:  My cheeks on this barstool.

        -- Cheers, Strange Bedfellows, Part 2

Woody: Hey, Mr. Peterson, can I pour you a beer?

Norm:  Well, okay, Woody, but be sure to stop me at one. ...

       Eh, make that one-thirty.

        -- Cheers, Strange Bedfellows, Part 2

Fortune Cookie

A Hollywood producer calls a friend, another producer on the phone.

    "Hello?" his friend answers.

    "Hi!" says the man.  "This is Bob, how are you doing?"

    "Oh," says the friend, "I'm doing great!  I just sold a screenplay

for two hundred thousand dollars.  I've started a novel adaptation and the

studio advanced me fifty thousand dollars on it.  I also have a television

series coming on next week, and everyone says it's going to be a big hit!

I'm doing *great*!  How are you?"

    "Okay," says the producer, "give me a call when he leaves."

Fortune Cookie

<Knghtbrd> Internet censorship.  Because your children need to be

           protected from naked women, medical procedures, diverse

       cultures, and violent video games.

<knghtbrd> (but information on building bombs, stealing cable, and

           manufacturing drugs is okay...)

Fortune Cookie

I'm often asked the question, "Do you think there is extraterrestrial intelli-

gence?"  I give the standard arguments -- there are a lot of places out there,

and use the word *billions*, and so on.  And then I say it would be astonishing

to me if there weren't extraterrestrial intelligence, but of course there is as

yet no compelling evidence for it.  And then I'm asked, "Yeah, but what do you

really think?"  I say, "I just told you what I really think."  "Yeah, but

what's your gut feeling?"  But I try not to think with my gut.  Really, it's

>okay to reserve judgment until the evidence is in.

        -- Carl Sagan, The Burden Of Skepticism, The Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. 12, Fall 87

Fortune Cookie

Zhizn' prozhit'--ne pole pereiti.

    [Life's a bitch.]

    [Well, okay.  lit., to live through life is not as simple as crossing

     a field.  Happy now?]

        -- Russian proverb

Fortune Cookie

>OKAY!!  Turn on the sound ONLY for TRYNEL CARPETING, FULLY-EQUIPPED

R.V.'S and FLOATATION SYSTEMS!!

Fortune Cookie

>Okay ... I'm going home to write the "I HATE RUBIK's CUBE HANDBOOK FOR

DEAD CAT LOVERS" ...

Fortune Cookie

<Overfiend> penis jokes are okay in mixed company.  VMS is NOT!!!

Fortune Cookie

<Kysh_> Joey: I'm on it right now.. 3 1.3Gb disks, 128M ram, dual 50Mhz

        (Up to quad 250Mhz)

<Kysh_> The catch is that it pulls 110v at about 12A 8>

<Culus> 12A!

<Culus> Okay, my stove is 3000W, this sun is 1320W

<Culus> DO YOU SEE A PROBLEM HERE

<calc> a 1320W sun, that is like a hair dryer :)

Fortune Cookie

Well thaaaaaaat's okay.

Fortune Cookie

<Knghtbrd> Okay, you people have started talking about BSDM applications of

           network hardware...  I think I'll run off and do something useful

           and Debianish and stay OUT of this one...

<Knghtbrd> (for a change)

Fortune Cookie

"Okay," Bobby said, getting the hang of it, "then what's the matrix?  If

she's a deck, and Danbala's a program, what's cyberspace?"

  "The world," Lucas said.

        -- William Gibson, _Count Zero_

Fortune Cookie

<Knghtbrd> RoboHak - okay, the patch isn't broken, but my brain

           apparently is

<wc> that's nothing new (;

<Knghtbrd> wc - hush.

<Knghtbrd> =>

Fortune Cookie

    "Has anyone had problems with the computer accounts?"

    "Yes, I don't have one."

    "Okay, you can send mail to one of the tutors ..."

        -- E. D'Azevedo, Computer Science 372

Fortune Cookie

    "You say there are two types of people?"

    "Yes, those who separate people into two groups and those that don't."

    "Wrong.  There are three groups:

        Those who separate people into three groups.

        Those who don't separate people into groups.

        Those who can't decide."

    "Wait a minute, what about people who separate people into two groups?"

    "Oh.  Okay, then there are four groups."

    "Aren't you then separating people into four groups?"

    "Yeah."

    "So then there's a fifth group, right?"

    "You know, the problem is these idiots who can't make up their minds."

Fortune Cookie

Eric Raymond:  I want to live in a world where software doesn't suck.

Richard Stallman:  Any software that isn't free sucks.

Linus Torvalds:  I'm interested in free beer.

Richard Stallman:  That's okay, as long as I don't have to drink it.  I

                   don't like beer.

        -- LinuxWorld Expo panel, 4 March 1999

Fortune Cookie

It was raining heavily, and the motorist had car trouble on a lonely country

road.  Anxious to find shelter for the night, he walked over to a farmhouse

and knocked on the front door.  No one responded.  He could feel the water

from the roof running down the back of his neck as he stood on the stoop.

The next time he knocked louder, but still no answer.  By now he was soaked

to the skin.  Desperately he pounded on the door.  At last the head of a

man appeared out of an upstairs window.

    "What do you want?" he asked gruffly.

    "My car broke down," said the traveler, "and I want to know if you

would let me stay here for the night."

    "Sure," replied the man. "If you want to stay there all night, it's

>okay with me."

Fortune Cookie

A man is crawling through the Sahara desert when he is approached by another

man riding on a camel.  When the rider gets close enough, the crawling man

whispers through his sun-parched lips, "Water... please... can you give...

water..."

    "I'm sorry," replies the man on the camel, "I don't have any water

with me.  But I'd be delighted to sell you a necktie."

    "Tie?" whispers the man.  "I need *water*."

    "They're only four dollars apiece."

    "I need *water*."

    "Okay, okay, say two for seven dollars."

    "Please!  I need *water*!", says the man.

    "I don't have any water, all I have are ties," replies the salesman,

and he heads off into the distance.

    The man, losing track of time, crawls for what seems like days.

Finally, nearly dead, sun-blind and with his skin peeling and blistering, he

sees a restaurant in the distance.  Summoning the last of his strength he

staggers up to the door and confronts the head waiter.

    "Water... can I get... water," the dying man manages to stammer.

    "I'm sorry, sir, ties required."

Fortune Cookie

    A young married couple had their first child.  Their original pride

and joy slowly turned to concern however, for after a couple of years the

child had never uttered any form of speech.  They hired the best speech

therapists, doctors, psychiatrists, all to no avail.  The child simply refused

to speak.  One morning when the child was five, while the husband was reading

the paper, and the wife was feeding the dog, the little kid looks up from

his bowl and said, "My cereal's cold."

    The couple is stunned.  The man, in tears, confronts his son.  "Son,

after all these years, why have you waited so long to say something?".

    Shrugs the kid, "Everything's been okay 'til now".

Fortune Cookie

University, n.:

    Like a software house, except the software's free, and it's usable,

    and it works, and if it breaks they'll quickly tell you how to fix

    it, and ...

    [Okay, okay, I'll leave it in, but I think you're destroying

     the credibility of the entire fortune program.  Ed.]

Fortune Cookie

I'm often asked the question, "Do you think there is extraterrestrial intelli-

gence?"  I give the standard arguments -- there are a lot of places out there,

and use the word *billions*, and so on.  And then I say it would be astonishing

to me if there weren't extraterrestrial intelligence, but of course there is as

yet no compelling evidence for it.  And then I'm asked, "Yeah, but what do you

really think?"  I say, "I just told you what I really think."  "Yeah, but

what's your gut feeling?"  But I try not to think with my gut.  Really, it's

>okay to reserve judgment until the evidence is in.

        -- Carl Sagan

Fortune Cookie

Stress has been pinpointed as a major cause of illness.  To avoid overload

and burnout, keep stress out of your life.  Give it to others instead.  Learn

the "Gaslight" treatment, the "Are you talking to me?" technique, and the

"Do you feel okay?  You look pale." approach.  Start with negotiation and

implication.  Advance to manipulation and humiliation.  Above all, relax

and have a nice day.

Fortune Cookie

The, uh, snowy mountains are like really cold, eh?

And the, um, plains stretch out like my moms girdle, eh?

There's lotsa beers and doughnuts for everyone, eh?

So the last one to be peaceful and everything is a big idiot,

Eh?

So shut yer face up and dry yer mucklucks by the fire, eh?

And dream about girls with their high beams on, eh?

They may be cold, but that's okay!  Beer's better that way!

Eh?

        -- A, like, Tribute to the Great White North, eh?

Beauty!

Fortune Cookie

It's OKAY -- I'm an INTELLECTUAL, too.

Fortune Cookie

As many of you know, I am taking a class here at UNC on Personality.

One of the tests to determine personality in our book was so incredibly

useful and interesting, I just had to share it.

Answer each of the following items "true" or "false"

 1. I salivate at the sight of mittens.

 2. If I go into the street, I'm apt to be bitten by a horse.

 3. Some people never look at me.

 4. Spinach makes me feel alone.

 5. My sex life is A-okay.

 6. When I look down from a high spot, I want to spit.

 7. I like to kill mosquitoes.

 8. Cousins are not to be trusted.

 9. It makes me embarrassed to fall down.

10. I get nauseous from too much roller skating.

11. I think most people would cry to gain a point.

12. I cannot read or write.

13. I am bored by thoughts of death.

14. I become homicidal when people try to reason with me.

15. I would enjoy the work of a chicken flicker.

16. I am never startled by a fish.

17. My mother's uncle was a good man.

18. I don't like it when somebody is rotten.

19. People who break the law are wise guys.

20. I have never gone to pieces over the weekend.

Fortune Cookie

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