The Stand

by Stephen King

My name is Dayna Roberta Jurgens, and I am afraid, but I have been afraid before. All he can take from me is what I would have to give up someday anyhow—my life. I will not let him break me down. I will not let him make me less than I am, if I can possibly help it. I want to die well … and I am going to have what I want.

I will fear no evil, he muttered in his dream. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil No evil.

It was Donald Merwin Elbert, now known as the Trashcan Man, now and forever, world without end, hallelujah, amen.