"Dr. Hahn said, "I think your child has a brain tumor."
Chap. 1, Death Be Not Proud, p. 23

"That building!-It became the citadel of all our hopes and fears for more than a year, the prison of all our dreams."
Chap. 1, Death Be Not Proud, p. 28

"It was as if he were girding himself for the struggle only too obviously underway, between life and Death."
Chap. 2, Death Be Not Proud, p. 52

"We waited, and then with everybody listening Penfield cut through all the euphemisms and said directly, 'Your child has a malignant glioma, and it will kill him. '"
Chap. 2, Death Be Not Proud, p. 55

"Give nature opportunity, and nature herself will heal."
Chap. 3, Death Be Not Proud, p. 69

"Cancer is a rebellion-a gangster outbreak of misplaced cells."
Chap. 3, Death Be Not Proud, p. 78

"Johnny's brain, we learned later, weighed 2,000 grams. The average for a normal, fully-grown male...