“I thought I had to be tough and I’m fine was my motto. I thought life had to be really hard and painful.”— Whitney Cummings, nerdist.com
“Nobody asks if I’m okay. They think that just because I don’t say anything, I’m okay — that I’m fine with everything.”— Maria Cheena Cabuenas, thoughtcatalog.com
“Don't ask me why am I not fine, don't say a word just come and hug me. Even if I don't hug you back at that very moment, don't let me go.”— Akshay Vasu, amazon.com
“Nothing is wrong. I'm completely normal. If I believe it enough, it'll come true.”— Riley Sager, amazon.com
“We let ourselves get so used to being 'fine' that we lose track of how 'not fine' we are.”— Martina Boone, amazon.com
“You feel fine. If the way ‘fine’ feels is kind of bleak and dead inside, with an undercurrent of inexplicable anxiety.”— Heidi Priebe, thoughtcatalog.com
“You made it another day. And you can make it one more. You’re doing just fine. You’re doing fine.”— Charlotte Eriksson, amazon.com
“...and you drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, That was fine. And your life is a long line of fine.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.com
“Fine. Such a stupid word really. It feels empty and weightless. It’s the kind of word you use to hide the truth.”— Krista Ritchie, amazon.com
“You’re not fine. You’re not. And that’s OK. The first thing I want you to do is to finally tell yourself that it’s OK not to be OK. To accept that you’re feeling badly and that something isn’t right.”— S.R. Crawford, amazon.com
“I have perfected the smile that says I’m fine, even though most of the time, I feel far from it.”— Serena Grey, amazon.com
“I'm sure everything will be fine. I'm sure of lots of things that are wrong. I'm highly fallible.”— Night Vale podcast, twitter.com
“The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be?--it is the same the angels breathe.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“You suffer through the night with the perfect-on-paper man. The stutter of jokes misunderstood, the witty remarks lobbed and missed. Or maybe he understands that you’ve made a witty remark but, unsure of what to do with it, he holds it in his hand like some bit of conversational phlegm he will wipe…”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.com
“You drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, That was fine. And your life is a long line of fine.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.com