He drew from his well of deep feelings about his time spent there to write the monument's inscription: "In that era, how many mothers spent long nights crying for their children locked up on Green Island?"
柏楊為紀念碑所題的詞：「在那個時代，有多少母親，為她們囚禁在這個島上的孩子，長夜哭泣。」正是他在獄中深刻的感受。