Foreshadowing Quotes

How many more times would I have embraced him that night, how many more times would I have kissed him, if I had known the name of that stranger lover who was already in Montreal, who had already bought his stadium ticket from a scalper for the 5,000 tomorrow. That implacable lover who was going to turn Billy's eyes away from me forever.

~ Patricia Nell Warren

She saw Luke, standing atop a pile of bones. Jace with white feathered wings sprouting out of his back, Isabelle sitting naked with her whip curled around her like a net of gold rings, Simon with crosses burned into the palms of his hands. Angels, falling and burning. Falling out of the sky.

~ Cassandra Clare

Already she knew that an idea could pain him like a bruise. He had grey eyes that showed every thought, and sometimes Charlotte worried that he might be hurt in some way that she would not be able to prevent.

~ Lauren Owen

His mother's words faded to myth, concocted by a gentle soul to delight the imagination of a boy.Until one day, they were no longer a myth. One day, he would wish he had never heard them at all because they spelled his happiness--and his eternal sorrow.

~ Natalia Marx

Nightmares are seldom a foreshadowing of real events, but always a showing of real fears.

~ Criss Jami

It was like a commercial for laundry detergent or tampons or a prescription medication with death listed as a possible side effect.

~ Carolyn Lee Adams

It’s weird how much things can change in only a few minutes. With those three words, “I don’t remember,” our entire futures were changed. Not just for me and Brooklyn, but for the little girl, and Denver, and Jenna and Blaze and – darn, I’m getting ahead of myself again. So much for trying to be dramatic.

~ C.b. Cook

To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly as when one longs to taste it, and when is the taste refracted into so many hues and savors of ripeness and earth, and when do our senses know any thing so utterly as when we lack it? And here again is a foreshadowing -- the world will be made whole. For to wish for a hand on one's hair is all but to feel it. So whatever we may lose, very craving gives it back to us again.

~ Marilynne Robinson

My phone rang, and although it wasn't a sinister time of night, and although nothing had happened that I would later see as foreshadowing, I knew, I knew.

~ Hanya Yanagihara

There's things that have no finish, Scully, no ending to speak of. There's no justice to it, but that's the God's truth. The only end some things have is the end you give em.

~ Tim Winton

Plot twist: everything goes exactly as planned.

~ Criss Jami

America, I don't think you can change history. All the same, his expression looked hopeful.Sure we can. Besides, who'd ever know about it but you and me?

~ Kiera Cass

I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

~ Abraham Lincoln

I had rather face wild beasts and diseases than the perils of civilization.There is a proverb, which Tom was kind enough not to voice: be careful what you wish for. Unfortunately, not only did I get it, but so did those around me.

~ Marie Brennan

He falls asleep believing he's been robbed, not knowing that the summoning of demons is almost always unwitting.

~ Dexter Palmer

For most of my life I've been a listener. At least in the beginning, I think the reason I listened so intently was to have a chance of hearing the train before it ran over me.

~ Steve Rasnic Tem

Turning his back on the village of Unwin, Chiave lumbered into the forest, barely able to walk under the weight of all he carried.

~ Amanda Orneck

Leaves turned to soil beneath my feet. Thus it is, trees eat themselves.

~ David Mitchell

You know what happens to me!

~ Satoshi Kon