I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a…

“What came next is very hard to tell. Indeed, I have told it but once before, when I needed to, and I will tell…

— Juliet Marillier

“I am very, very sorry to leave you hanging like that, but as I was writing the tale of the Baudelaire orphans, I happened…

— Lemony Snicket

“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…

— Johnny B. Truant

“As she fell, Esther wasn’t worried about being blown off course and plummeting into the rocks below. She wasn’t worried about hitting the shallows…

— Krystal Sutherland

“As you and I listen to Uncle Monty tell the three Baudelaire orphans that no harm will ever come to them in the Reptile…

— Lemony Snicket

“Foreshadowings of the principles and even of the language of [the infinitesimal] calculus can be found in the writings of Napier , Kepler ,…

— Anonymous

“A shell in the pit," said I, "if the worst comes to worst will kill them all." The intense excitement of the events had…

— H.G. Wells

“Queer, how I misinterpreted the designations of doom.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“The ghosts of our past have come to haunt us at last.”

— Lindsay A. Franklin

“If at that moment Clement had caught sight of the dog and had managed to capture him, the fates of a number of people…

— Iris Murdoch

“Then there was The House of Future Needs, an old pawn shop that engaged in the sale of utterly useless trinkets. Except, of course,…

— Louise Blackwick

“Rozanov seemed to consider this. "Is good. What you did. It will be good for...others." There was something in Rozanov's eyes that caught Scott's…

— Game Changer Rachel Reid

“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,…

— Hanya Yanagihara

There is no permanent status quo in nature; all is the process of adjustment and readjustment, or else eventual failure. But man is the…

— Hermann Joseph Muller

Beware the ides of March.

— William Shakespeare