“Everything will turn out right, the world is built on that”

“Everything will turn out right, the world is built on that” is a sentence Maren encounters in The Master and Margarita during a quiet exchange with Andy. The line’s sweeping confidence meets an immediate, private refusal: Maren allows that it may be true for other people, but not for her.

The Sentence in the Book

Maren nudges a book on the floor with her foot while eating a banana from the groceries Andy has brought. She picks it up and opens it to a random page. The cover shows a grinning cat holding a pistol; inside, she finds the sentence, “Everything will turn out right, the world is built on that.” The chance discovery gives the expression its first force in the scene: it arrives not as advice from Andy, but as a line encountered in a book.

Maren’s Rebuttal

The sentence’s assurance is answered at once by Maren’s thought: “For other people, maybe. Definitely not for me.” The contrast turns a broad declaration about how the world works into a measure of her own sense of exclusion from its promise. The text does not explain that judgment here, but its abruptness makes the gap between hope in the sentence and Maren’s expectation plain.

Reading and Conversation

Andy explains that he is reading The Master and Margarita for Russian literature and asks whether Maren likes to read. She says she has many favorite books, naming The Phantom Tollbooth, A Wrinkle in Time, and the Narnia books. Her response keeps the discovered sentence within a conversation about reading, while her shiver at the mention of Spare Oom leaves the exchange with an unease that the book’s confident promise has not dispelled.