“Idle to pretend that we have lost paradise. We never had it; it is still to make.”

“The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.”

“Like Adam, we have all lost Paradise; and yet we carry Paradise around inside of us in the form of a longing for, almost a memory of, a blessedness that is no more, or the dream of a blessedness that may someday be again.”

“Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had”

“The earth is not a lair, neither is it a prison. The earth is a Paradise, the only one we'll ever know. We will realize it the moment we open our eyes. We don't have to make it a Paradise-it is one. We have only to make ourselves fit to inhabit it. The man with the gun, the man with murder in his heart, cannot possibly recognize Paradise even when he is shown it.”

“We pretended she'd only gotten lost in the colors of fall.Piper”