29 Quotes About Omens

  • Author Karen Joy Fowler
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    The Indians did not like to see anything odd -- a white squirrel, for instance. . . . They thought such oddities were messages, were omens of evil. . . . And the Indians put a great deal of faith in dreams.

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  • Author Erin Hunter
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    She dabbed at the surface of the water with one paw, and the moon fluttered like silver wings before settling again as the water stilled. Letting out a faint mrrow of wonder, Half Moon dabbed again and again. However often she disturbed the surface, the moon was still there.“It doesn’t give up, does it?” Half Moon blinked at Jayfeather. “It’s always there, constant like the stones in this cave. Maybe we should be like the moon’s reflection, holding fast whatever happens?

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  • Author Gabriel García Márquez
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    He said that people who loved [animals] to excess were capable of the worst cruelties toward human beings. He said that dogs were not loyal but servile, that cats were opportunists and traitors, that peacocks were heralds of death, that macaws were simply decorative annoyances, that rabbits fomented greed, that monkeys carried the fever of lust, and that roosters were damned because they had been complicit in the three denials of Christ.

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  • Author Emily Skaja
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    It's not anyone's fault that this world is full of omens.By all accounts, history is a practiceof ignoring things & hoping for the best. You can driveyourself crazy with looking. You can expectbad luck to mark you unfooled, fooled.Light to mark you with light.

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