The Talisman (The Talisman, #1)

by Stephen King

and at the end all there may be is the stupid, unthinking scream of living tissue.

Then Richard fell on his knees with his hair in his tired face, and Jack got down there with him, and I can bear to tell you no more – only that they comforted each other as well as they could, and, as you probably know from your own bitter experience, that is never quite good enough.