“I wasn’t lost, or frozen, or gone… I was alive; I was alive in my own perfect world.”— Alice Sebold, amazon.com
“It's Paradise, but we can't get out of it. And anything you can't get out of is Hell.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys. It's loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the story forward, along its twisted road.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“Certainly paradise, whatever, wherever it be, contains flaws. (Paradisical flaws, if you like.) If it did not, it would be incapable of drawing the hearts of men or angels.”— Henry Miller, amazon.com
“You were in paradise, but you didn't recognize it. It's the same with most people in this world; they seek suffering in the most joyous of places because they think they are unworthy of happiness.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH . . . but I ran away from that seashore and never came back again without that secret knowledge: that it didn't want me there, that I wa…”— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com