Skip to content

Emotions about our lost houses and gardens have to do with growing old and acquiring guilt: we are always leaving our first home and lamentingly looking back to it. The whole point of the Garden of Eden is that we are going to leave it, and then spend the rest of our time wishing we could return to it.

— Hermione Lee

Another quote →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Hermione Lee (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.