Jack Egan

“ He looked at Dana for the first time, and in that instant of full recognition, she began to dissolve.
"Harvey," she pleaded, "Wake up. You've got to face Reality before it's too late. Please ..." she sobbed into nonexistence.
Harvey wheeled toward the ship and fled up the ramp. "No! No! This is Reality!" he shouted. He stared up at the insane island-moons swirling in the sky; the soft, sourceless aqua of the air; the incredible bulk of the Castle on the Edge of Infinity, and he felt on the brink of Hell. Something was going to happen. Harvey's breathing was loud in the thundering silence. ”

“ You never came out of Overdrive, Harvey. You're still in that ship, and you'll never wake up!" She laughed/cried at Harvey's twisted face.
"You're crazy!" he roared hoarsely. "You're crazy! I remember! I know where I am, and how to get back!"
"Take a look around you, Harvey Crane," Dana laughed at him hysterically. "Do you think a world such as this could ever really exist?
"All this, Harvey," she gestured at the chunk of land, the Castle, and the moons—"They're just symbols. This island: your mind; the world edge is the end of Reality. Out there, the moons—they are insanity." ”

“ You just got here today, didn't you," she said absently, a little rankled. "Well, you can have the cot tonight, Harvey. We have so much to do the rest of our lives."
Harvey felt so suddenly overcome with weariness he didn't think to ask her just what it was they had so much of. He followed her docilely down a blue-lighted corridor and out onto a small balcony. A low cot, lined with silk and complete with canopy, reposed in the exact center of the porch. He turned to say good-night to Dana and found her already gone. ”