Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold

by C.S. Lewis

“Today I shall meet cruel men, cowards and liars, the envious and the drunken. They will be like that because they do not know what is good from what is bad. This is an evil which has fallen upon them not upon me. They are to be pitied, not—”’

‘Don’t you think the things people are most ashamed of are the things they can’t help?’