For a moment the dark and fearsomely sad thoughts which inhabit her mind grow even sadder and darker; Lisey thinks they will either kill her or drive her insane.

But there are weak men who can lift cars if their wives are pinned underneath. The brain, Garraty." McVries's voice had dropped to a hoarse whisper. "It isn’t man or God. It’s something...in the brain.

The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no sanity; there is only the screaming bedlam of sleep.

The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows

It was really amazing the number of hard hits from which a mind could recover.

Time passed: the mind rebuilds it's defenses.

I will scream as the sanity leaves my mind forever. I will scream...but there is no one there to hear me.

The exhausted mind is obsession's easiest prey.

And the most terrifying question of all may be just how much horror the human mind can stand and still maintain a wakeful, staring, unrelenting sanity.