Beware the ides of March.
William ShakespeareTags: forcasting foreshadowing julius-ceasar warning
By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.
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I run into trees all the time when I go sledding
Geoffrey RogersTags: foreshadowing
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 LincolnTags: foreshadowing excellence striving
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 RobinsonTags: loss foreshadowing shadow need wish lack longing crave craving wholeness
Whatever house I'm in, I hope she's not in it.
J.K. RowlingTags: foreshadowing
A shell in the pit," said I, "if the worst comes to worst will kill them all."
The intense excitement of the events had no doubt left my perceptive powers in a state of erethism. I remember that dinner table with extraordinary vividness even now. My dear wife's sweet anxious face peering at me from under the pink lampshade, the white cloth with it silver and glass table furniture—for in those days even philosophical writers had luxuries—the crimson-purple wine in my glass, are photographically distinct. At the end of it I sat, tempering nuts with a cigarette, regretting Ogilvy's rashness, and denouncing the shortsighted timidity of the Martians.
So some respectable dodo in the Mauritius might have lorded it in his nest, and discussed the arrival of that shipful of pitiless sailors in want of animal food. "We will peck them to death tomorrow, my dear.
Tags: overconfidence foreshadowing conflict extinction dodos shortsightedness
If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.
Kurt CobainTags: foreshadowing foreboding
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.
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Unintentional foreshadowing is unintentionally hilarious.
Sarah WendellTags: foreshadowing trashy-books smart-bitches
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