101 Quotes About Foreshadowing
- Author L.H. Leonard
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An ember burns crimson beneath the black coals. A fire left for dead, forgotten. I crouch and cup my hands. I remember its promise. In the rush of my breath, the ember glows brighter. It remembers, too.
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- Author Marilynne Robinson
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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.
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- Author William Golding
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The boys were dancing. The pile was so rotten, and now so tinder-dry, that whole limbs yielded passionately to the yellow flames that poured upwards and shook a great beards of flame twenty feet in the air. For yards round the fire the heat was like a blow, and the breeze was a river of sparks. Trunks crumbled to a white dust.
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- Author Deanna Raybourn
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Of course, I did not realize it at the time, but it was to be nothing like a year before I came home again. I did not know when I would see Brisbane again, but I knew that I would. Someday.And indeed I did. That is when we found the body in the chapel. But that is a tale for another time.
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- Author Carolyn Lee Adams
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It was like a commercial for laundry detergent or tampons or a prescription medication with death listed as a possible side effect.
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- Author Tamora Pierce
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It's a Stormwing," Ozorne said. "I always wanted one.
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- Author Tamora Pierce
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It was plain that Nazaam and Gieyat were lovers. I'd like that, Arram thought as he followed Nazaam. To be comfortable with my lover, and laugh together, even when things are terrible. Like I do with Ozorne and Varice.
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- Author Tamora Pierce
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It's a Stromwing," Ozorne said. "I always wanted one.
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- Author M. Wakefield
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I carried the image of 'The Scapegoat' with me and that ethereal moment when it seemed as if I had entered the bleak scenery stayed etched in the back of my mind for reasons I could not yet comprehend.
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