“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 , book Every Day

Source: Every Day

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American author and editor 1972

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