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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"
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foreboding
scary
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George R.R. Martin |
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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?
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foreboding
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Jodi Picoult |
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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.
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reassurance
family
impending-doom
foreboding
hades
nico-di-angelo
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Rick Riordan |
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"This book is called "Blue Nights" because at the time I began it I found my mind turning increasingly to illness, to the end of promise, the dwindling of the days,the inevitability of the fading, the dying of the brightness. Blue nights are the opposite of the dying of the brightness, but they are also its warning."
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foreboding
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Joan Didion |
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Love gives insight, Maggie, and insight often gives foreboding. Listen to me, let me supply you with books; do let me see you sometimes, be your brother and teacher, as you said at Lorton. It is less wrong that you should see me than that you should be committing this long suicide.
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suicide
wrong
compassion
love
bookish
gentleman
foreboding
caring
insight
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George Eliot |
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He imagines the plane exploding as it touches down, ignited by one of its glints, in a ball of red flame shadowed in black like you see on TV all the time, and he is shocked to find within himself, imagining this, not much emotion, just a cold thrill at being a witness, a kind of bleak wonder at the fury of chemicals, and relief that he hadn't been on the plane himself but was instead safe on this side of the glass, with his faint pronged sense of doom.
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airport
rabbit-angstrom
foreboding
foreshadowing
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John Updike |
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8fac1f1
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I did not like the look of him at all. Something significantly ill-omened which I could not yet define emanated from him.
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bad-omens
the-black-prince
iris-murdoch
foreboding
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Iris Murdoch |
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Sometimes one feels suddenly doomed by fate.
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fate
doomed
the-black-prince
iris-murdoch
premonition
foreboding
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Iris Murdoch |
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He needed the warmth of the sun to take away the chill of foreboding that grew in him.
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foreboding
sun
warmth
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Francine Rivers |