Jonathan

“The saving of a life is equal in merit to the saving of the world. So it is said, he who saves one life saves a world. Yet if this was so, then what exactly was meant by world? Were there worlds of different size and merit? Or was the world of one soul as capacious as the world that contained all of creation—infinite, even? Was Ester’s world, peopled by her parents and her brother, equal to all the others God had created?”
― Rachel Kadish, The Weight of Ink

“Go ahead, he said. I dare you. He exaggerated each word now now, as though teaching elocution to a foreigner. I like you, Aaron Levy-you are a decent human being after all.
Her mouth had shut. she opened She opened it, after a time, to say only only, You're a bigger fool than I thought.
That was close he said. We'll tray again sometime, okay? Don't feel bad, you almost got it”
― Rachel Kadish, The Weight of Ink

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984