The Dead Zone Quotes
"He was very glad to be alive on that cold, fair winter day. Nothing was wrong with him, nothing troubled his mind, he wanted nothing ... except to be able to skate backward, like Timmy Benedix."
"A relationship based on lies is no good, Sarah."
"I love you, Sarah," Johnny said. So it was out, it couldn't be called back, it hung between them in the moving car waiting for someone to do something about it.
"You plan all your life and you do what you can," the cabbie said, and now there was honest bewilderment in his voice, a bewilderment which would not last much longer because the cabbie was embarked upon the last minute of his life.
"Being on hold was a totally different proposition. The line was darkly, smoothly blank. You were nowhere."
"Somebody calls you at two in the morning, puts you on hold, you count your relatives and inventory their condition."
"You plan all your life and you do what you can. You never want nothing but the best, and the kid comes home with hair down to his ass-hole and says the president of the United States is a pig."
"The voices, the faces - coming closer, jelling together."
"Choose or they'll choose for you, they'll rip you out of this place, whatever and wherever it is, like doctors ripping a baby out of its mother's womb by cesarian section."
"It's God's plan for him. Oh yes. Don't you think I know? I know, believe me. God has great things in store for my Johnny."
"The dark hallway was not good, but it was better than this new feeling of sadness and impending loss."
"And then Sarah's face came to him - she had to be out there someplace, although hers had not been one of the bright faces bending over his."
"Sometimes nothing is right, I guess. Tough old world. Sometimes you just have to do what you can and try to live with it."
"Maybe some things are better not seen, and some things are better lost than found."
"God brought you out of that coma to do his will, John."
"Put your faith in God, Johnny. There's no need for all this foolishness."
"I'm sorry to hear you say that. Satan's agents are everywhere."
"Once you made your choices in this crazy world, you had to live with them."
"You want to get off that cocaine, baby. Your nose'll fall off."
"It seems wrong and cruel and I hate it, I hate it, because it isn't right at all, none of it!"
"God works His will through the mind of man as well as through the spirit of man."
"Maybe some things should be told, or seen, or found again."
"I've been in the hospital for going on five years. No one but a Rockefeller could pay for that."
"I think you're a ghoul. A grave robber of people's dreams."
"It's just amazing. You'll be a household word in six months, and after that, the sky is the limit."
"I think someone ought to put you to work at Roto-Rooter."
"You sound like you're talking through a Saltine box."
"The way these things feed each other, it's just amazing."
"I'm offering you Washington. Sky's the limit, boy!"
"They're all gonna think I'm kiddin, see? But I'm not kiddin. I'm building windmills."
"The idea that Harrison Fisher is doing anything for his constituency is just plain ridiculous."
"Sometimes these loonies turn out doing a pretty good job."
"You don't get it. Take a voter's-eye-view, Johnny."
"It is a terrible thing to bait a trap with a human being made in the image of God."
"I think a trap should be made for him, and I think he should be falling into it."
"I'd seat this in his black, lying, murderer's heart. I'd put her in as far as she'd go ... and then I'd twist her."
"Every human being on earth suddenly had a stake in what happened in this backwater meetinghouse."
"It was as American as The Wonderful World of Disney."
"Touching Stillson this time had been like touching a blank. Dead battery. Fallen tree. Empty house."
"I still don't really believe in God, not in a real Being who plans for us and gives us all little jobs to do, like Boy Scouts winning merit badges on The Great Hike of Life."
"We all do what we can, and it has to be good enough ... and if it isn't good enough, it has to do."
"Nothing is ever lost, Sarah. Nothing that can't be found."