Foreboding Quotes
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“Oh, my sweet summer child," Old Nan said quietly, "what do you know of fear?
Fear is for the winter, my little lord, when the snows fall a hundred feet
deep and the ice wind comes howling out of the north. Fear is for the long
night, when the sun hides its face for years at a time, and little children
are born and live and die all in darkness while the direwolves grow gaunt and
hungry, and the white walkers move through the woods”
― A Game of Thrones
Fear is for the winter, my little lord, when the snows fall a hundred feet
deep and the ice wind comes howling out of the north. Fear is for the long
night, when the sun hides its face for years at a time, and little children
are born and live and die all in darkness while the direwolves grow gaunt and
hungry, and the white walkers move through the woods”
― A Game of Thrones
“Do you know how sometimes - when you are riding your bike and you start skidding across sand, or when you miss a step and start tumbling down the stairs - you have those long, long seconds to know that you are going to be hurt, and badly?”
― My Sister’s Keeper
― My Sister’s Keeper
“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.”
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“Like anybody, I would like to have a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will.”
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“Nico didn’t like to be touched, but somehow this brief contact with his father felt reassuring – the same way the Chapel of Bones was reassuring. Like death, his father’s presence was cold and often callous, but it was real – brutally honest, inescapably dependable.”
― The Blood of Olympus
― The Blood of Olympus
“I went to sleep with gum in my mouth and now there's gum in my hair and when I got out of bed this morning I tripped on the skateboard and by mistake I dropped my sweater in the sink while the water was running and I could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.”
― Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
― Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
“The night stared me in the face, amorphous, blind, infinite, without frontiers. Not a single start relieved the darkness behind the glass.”
― Solaris
― Solaris
“As they gently lowered it into the earth, all stared silently at the coffin but one: a young woman of twenty-five who glanced absentmindedly into the distance where an unknown figure stood – watching, waiting, his face buried in the shadow of his hat. Whether by intuition or paranoia she could not tell, but the presence of the man troubled her and her eyes were fixed on his motionless body and would not stir. Tourists rarely came to a town as small and uneventful as theirs, let alone to visit a funeral where they did not introduce themselves and only beheld the spectacle from afar.”
― Exogenesis
― Exogenesis
“There are more wicked things on this earth than the Specter King. You only have to know where to look.”
― The Plight of Steel
― The Plight of Steel
“Once, he'd loved the ocean. Loved seeing it every morning, every night. Seeing all its facets, all its faces. Not many people knew what the sea looked like in all seasons, under all phases of the moon. But he did. Now he knew the ocean was as dangerous as a sleeping volcano. At peace, it was magnificent. But when it wanted to, it could bring down kingdoms. Five years ago, it had brought down the small, strange kingdom of Clock Island.”
― The Wishing Game
― The Wishing Game
“A dark shape parts the clouds above and passes over eastern kingdoms, soaring unceasingly and stopping for none. It is coming here, Castian Valinor, and it is coming for you.”
― The Plight of Steel
― The Plight of Steel
“The shining light of Logres shone as high and clear as ever, but as a candle flares before it gutters out.”
― The Sword and the Circle: King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
― The Sword and the Circle: King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
“The worst is what happens when you’re blithely going about the dogged routine of your life, those moments when you’ve forgotten to have a guard up at all.”
― Ellipsis
― Ellipsis
“The man spoke again. “Everything you say is nothing. Everything you think is nothing. Everything you believe is nothing. You are just a bystander; you are just a voyeur. You do not belong. You must leave.”
[From My Irish Dog]”
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[From My Irish Dog]”
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“It made little sense — the bad thing had already happened. Still, he felt as if he'd been diagnosed with a condition that was serious and complicated, but about which he remembered nothing.”
― Joe Country
― Joe Country
“Behind him, in the darkness, the ancient, invisible presence that inhabited the hill slipped silently back to its resting place, satisfied that another interloper had moved on.”
― Halt's Peril
― Halt's Peril
“Kronos had done it to bring another chess piece into play- another chance to control the prophecy.”
― Percy Jackson and the sea of monsters
― Percy Jackson and the sea of monsters
“Clairintuitive psychic perception is way beyond the everyday gut feeling. It is not merely developed inner guidance or honed intuition, but instead a metaphysical gift of prophetic proportions. It is intuition on supernatural steroids.”
― The Sensible Psychic: A Leading-Edge Guide To True Psychic Perception
― The Sensible Psychic: A Leading-Edge Guide To True Psychic Perception
“THE KAA
The sky darkened and rain was falling in sheets. It was a dark, foreboding rain. A storm from the Abyss.”
― AI Creative Writing Anthology: 20 Authors Share How to Use Computer Tools
The sky darkened and rain was falling in sheets. It was a dark, foreboding rain. A storm from the Abyss.”
― AI Creative Writing Anthology: 20 Authors Share How to Use Computer Tools
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face-for ever!”
― 1984
― 1984
“She had walked on ahead as blue-grey stippled waters had appeared through the trees, and she crossed a gravel track to rest against an old brick wall overlooking the bank. Downriver was a weir, the faint rush mixing with the birdsong from the wood. The sun had gone in while they were amongst the bluebells, and the atmosphere was muted, the waters moving slowly and quietly. When he joined her they took in the serene scene.
“I have done bad things too, you know” she said.”
― The Outfield Player and HotKiana97: A crime noir thriller
“I have done bad things too, you know” she said.”
― The Outfield Player and HotKiana97: A crime noir thriller
“Terror can be more horrible in calm than in storm. Stillness can be much more sinister than noise.”
― The Subjugated Beast
― The Subjugated Beast
“I had no way of communicating the thought. I looked around for my pad and pen, but there was nothing. I regretted having left them at home, but he'd taken them from my pocket as we were leaving. "You won't be needing these," he'd said. "I'll have it fixed in no time.”
― The Memory Police
― The Memory Police
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