Top 50 Quotes About Foreshadowing
#1. Foreshadowing is like playing cat and mouse. If done properly, it can be used to compel the reader to read on.
Mary Sage Nguyen
#2. It is well to be attentive to successive ambitions that flood the growing boy's and girl's imagination. They leave profound traces behind them. During those years when the first sap is rising the future tree is foreshadowing its contour. We are shaped by the promises of imagination.
Thornton Wilder
#3. Foreshadowing: Was my challenging Allah to unleash the full weight of his fury upon us, with dark clouds looming in the distance.
Adam Fenner
#4. The Resurrection is the supreme vindication of Jesus' divine identity and his inspired teaching. It's the proof of his triumph over sin and death. It's the foreshadowing of the resurrection of his followers. It's the basis of Christian hope. It's the miracle of all miracles.
Lee Strobel
#5. In books, sometimes the foreshadowing is so obvious that you know what's going to happen. But knowing what happens isn't the same as knowing how it happens. Getting there is the best part.
Emery Lord
#6. When I was old enough to know better, I ate a bar of soap in the shape of the Muppets' Fozzie Bear, because I loved him so much I wanted to consume him, even if doing so made me ill. I didn't yet know the word 'foreshadowing.' Fozzie was the only first of many pop-culture icons I feel shaped by.
Emma Forrest
#7. Foreshadowing is the storytelling companion of fate.
John Irving
#8. Because you don't live in a book. Nobody does, silly. Things never happen the way they would in a book. There isn't foreshadowing.
Laurel Snyder
#9. I dream of chaos and serenity. Some might call what I dream a nightmare, a madness of the mind. Me, I think of it as a foreshadowing of what's to come in my future, of what I hope to achieve one day.
Jessica Sorensen
#10. 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
#11. I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory.
L.M. Montgomery
#12. I remember tearing up the first time I read Nabokov's description, in 'Speak, Memory,' of his father being tossed on a blanket by cheering muzhiks, with its astonishingly subtle foreshadowing of grief and mourning.
Michael Chabon
#13. Unintentional foreshadowing is unintentionally hilarious.
Sarah Wendell
#14. In life one rarely knows which remarks of the hundreds uttered in the course of a day will turn out to be auspicious. In fiction, foreshadowing is planted and flagged in some (hopefully or desperately) subtle way, drama demands it.
Delia Ephron
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. Michael looked around the beautiful garden with its many colored flowers, fragrant lemon trees, the old statures of the gods dug from ancient ruins, other newer ones of holy saints, the rose-colored walls across the villa. It was a lovely setting for the examination of twelve murderous apostles.
Mario Puzo
#18. There's no way for me to warn you about the terrible things that I know are going to happen.
Dexter Palmer
#19. 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
#20. She grew daring and reckless, overestimating her strength. She wanted to swim far out, where no woman had swum before.
Kate Chopin
#21. I had no idea what was going on, but I knew that fighting Tybalt wouldn't get me out of the darkness. It would strand me there.
Seanan McGuire
#23. Leaves turned to soil beneath my feet. Thus it is, trees eat themselves.
David Mitchell
#24. 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
#26. I was resting in the shadow of that ideal happiness as in the shade of the poisonous manchineel tree, without foreseeing the consequences.
Gustave Flaubert
#27. 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
#28. The hounds will come to Cainsville and when they do, you'll wish you made a very different choice today
Kelley Armstrong
#29. To look into the eyes of a cannibal. I turn away at the thought.
Carol Birch
#30. Stop whimpering and snapping at me, I'm sick of it. Keep your mouth shut and do as I tell you, and maybe we'll even be in time for your uncle's bloody wedding.
George R R Martin
#31. What came next is very hard to tell. Indeed, I have told it but once before, when I needed to, and I will tell it this time only becaude it forms a strand in the fabric of my story, and it wove itself into what came after.
Juliet Marillier
#32. The worst moments in life are heralded by small observations.
Andy Weir
#33. Forewarned is not forearmed, it is foreshadowed.
A.P.
#35. There were hints and intimations of the shape of things to come.
Dexter Palmer
#37. Whatever house I'm in, I hope she's not in it.
J.K. Rowling
#38. The only thing we know for certain is that Darquesse is coming, and she's coming to kill us all.
Derek Landy
#39. The streets are empty. Wind skims the voids keeping neighbors apart, as if grazing the hollow of a cut reed, or say, a plundered mailbox. A familiar note is produced. It's the one Desolation plays to keep its instrument in tune.
Andrew Hussie
#40. 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
#42. Maurice laid down all of his cards, then said, Gin. Reginald looked up into Maurice's face and said, I thought we were playing poker and Maurice replied, That's your problem.
Johnny B. Truant
#43. 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 Cobain
#44. Mr. St. Maur will help me make a most excellent match. Perhaps you should retain him as well."
Minerva shook her head at the pair of them. "A man will have to fall out of the sky and into my bedroom before I marry him.
Elizabeth Boyle
#45. 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
#46. He falls asleep believing he's been robbed, not knowing that the summoning of demons is almost always unwitting.
Dexter Palmer
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. When she lay curled against him, her skin dewed from passion, there was still that small, cold place inside of her where the heat hadn't quite reached.
J.D. Robb
#50. UR LOCAL's under construction. Better watch out, traffic fines double.
Stephen King
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