The Dead Zone

by Stephen King

“Time. We’ve got that, I guess.” And that would come back to her, awake and even more strongly in her dreams, in tones of inexpressible bitterness and loss.

who looked like the most bored sentient creature in the universe.

Johnny sighed. “Once in a while I get feelings, that’s all. For as long as I can remember, since I was just a little kid. And I’ve always been good at finding things people have lost.

But when you think, think about this: some things are better not seen, and some things are better lost than found.”

The dream seemed to slide off him in fragments, still littering the floor of his mind like something broken and not yet swept up.

one of the great hidden muscles of principle which move the earth: if those who receive will not pay, those who have not often will, for no good reason at all. It may be the same principle that assures the politicians there will always be enough young men to feed the war machine.

Nothing is ever lost, Sarah. Nothing that can’t be found.