you can't put a lid on the past so easily (p355) - Gail Hareven

you can never know what will calm the troubled soul: a poem, a philosophical saying, or a silly slogan on the roof of the Jewish Agency. (p272)

First of all we have to plant the Garden of Eden, because without the Garden of Eden there is no serpent; without the boughs of the apple tree to hide in, the serpent is nothing but an eater of dirt, of no greater significance than a snail or a worm.
Therefore, let there be a Garden of Eden!
And in fact, why "let there be"? There was a Garden of Eden. The Garden of Eden existed. Because why shouldn't I call what I had a "Garden of Eden"?
Let's begin with a Sabbath day of unutterable sweetness.

"...Just because a person realizes how lucky he was doesn't mean that he's prepared to stop being lucky." (p 265)