What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.
人出生时都是诚实的,死去时却都成了骗子。