“Maybe okay will be our always.""Okay.""Okay.”

“Maybe 'okay' will be our 'always”

“Okay,” he said. “I gotta go to sleep. It’s almost one.” 
“Okay,” I said.
 “Okay,” he said. 
I giggled and said, “Okay.” And then the line was quiet but not dead. I almost felt like he was there in my room with me, but in a way it was better, like I was not in my room and he was not in his, but instead we were together in some invisible and tenuous third space that could only be visited on the phone. “Okay,” he said after forever. “Maybe okay will be our always.”
 “Okay,” I said.
 It was Augustus who finally hung up.”

“I love you present tense. It's okay, Gus. It's okay. It is. It's okay, you hear me? Okay, okay.”

“Now that's an Okay that really means Okay, not that Okay that women use that means everything but Okay.”

“It is what it is and it's okay. I'll be okay, you'll be okay, and the world will keep turning.”