"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 marvellous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough." P.6
This quote is important because that's where A ends up being. He/She has highs and lows throughout the book but in the end he/she settles for okay. When A strives for better than okay, he/she usually ends up in a worse predicament than he/she was before. So maybe okay is the right place for A to be because, while his/her situation isn't horrible, it's not the best either. You would live a horrible life if you lived it in a way where you never had anything to lose. With no relationships that would last longer than a day. By having something to lose you strive for something better and you start to care more about the world and others around you. This quote is significant to me because i'm most calm when i'm okay. After a day full of different emotions it's nice to just lie down and be okay. Not having to think about school, work or the drama that happened throughout the day, and to just be. Many persons in the world live in hard conditions and when they have enough food to feed thier families -not a lot of food but at the same time not a bountiful feast- it's enough. Nobody asks for more because in the moment it would be okay.
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