"The World to Come" Quotes

The world to come, the rabbis said, would be like this: time would be like space, and the days of the week would be like rooms in a house.

He wondered if one of the things that made people human was the ability to imagine a world unlike the one they were in.

In the end, he thought, maybe the only difference between being brave and being a coward was whether you were too afraid to do what you had to do.

Time, he thought, was like a story, and each person's story was like a world.

Sometimes it seemed that the only way to understand the present was to know the past.

The world was filled with people who needed to be saved, but only a few who were willing to save them.

She had always believed that the world was full of possibilities, and now she knew that the world was full of impossibilities too.

Sometimes it seemed that the world was made of stories, and that people were the stories they told themselves.

Grief, he knew, was like a hole in the world, a place where everything that had been was suddenly gone.

Maybe love was like that, he thought. Maybe it was something that could only be understood in the dark.