"The moment you feel like giving up, think about why you held on for so long."
A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.
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.