'We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it ...'

(J.R.R. Tolkien)

'He believed in redemption ... the possibility of beauty when faced with the reality of so much ugliness.'

(Cassandra Clare)

'In everything that can be called art, there is a quality of redemption.'

(Raymond Chandler)

“But Mole stood still a moment, held in thought. As one wakened suddenly from a beautiful dream, who struggles to recall it and can recapture nothing but a dim sense of the beauty of it, the beauty! Till that too fades away in its turn, and the dreamer bitterly accepts the hard, cold waking and all its penalties.”

(Kenneth Grahame)