The Dead Zone

by Stephen King

The university was safe. It was a kind of never-never land where everybody, even the teachers, could be a part of Peter Pan’s band and never grow up. And there would always be a Nixon or an Agnew to play Captain Hook.

Now its biden or trump

Two donkeys meet at a hitching rail in a western town. One of them is a town donkey with nothing on his back but a saddle. The other is a prospector’s donkey, loaded down with packs, camping and cooking gear, and four fifty-pound sacks of ore. His back is bent into a concertina shape from the weight. The town donkey says, That’s quite a load you got there. And the prospector’s donkey says, What load?

Nice

Being on hold was a totally different proposition. The line was darkly, smoothly blank. You were nowhere. Why didn’t they just say, “Will you hold on while I bury you alive for a little while?”

god thats good

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

If only the brain would remember that!

“Yes. Cumberland General. I know where it is. Just above Jerusalem’s Lot. Okay. All right. Daddy…”

I swear the lot is in all his books lol

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

God thats good

She committed her own kind of sin, Johnny. She presumed to know the mind of God.

O soo true

‘The man who senses the wind of change should build not a windbreak but a windmill.’

True

But the people didn’t elect buffoons to Washington. Well—hardly ever.

Biden

“It’s been my experience that ninety-five percent of the people who walk the earth are simply inert, Johnny. One percent are saints, and one percent are assholes. The other three percent are the people who do what they say they can do.

Stuff i wish i herd when i was youger

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.

War Machine

“It’s his fault, that guy there! He made it happen! He set it on fire by his mind, just like in that book Carrie. You murderer! Killer! You…”

Ha

He is going to become president and he is going to start a war—or cause one through simple mismanagement of the office, which amounts to the same thing.

So so so true