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“She was every inch the skeletal goddess that had been promised by the bones of her feet.”
― Jefferson Smith, Strange Places

“There was a blinding flash of magnesium and a smell of singed hair and dust. A green light flared in the boar's glass eye.”
― Linda Lappin, The Etruscan

“In the murky puddle of rainwater collected at the entrance of the tomb, I spied my own reflection,a dark, hatted figure against a pewter sky.”
― Linda Lappin, The Etruscan

“Nothing happened; yet there were disturbing signs and portents.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Green Knight

“It had all been quite uncannily painless. I was left with a sense of not having suffered enough. Only sometimes in dreams did I experience certain horrors, glimpses of punishment which would perhaps yet find its hour.”
― Iris Murdoch, A Severed Head

“When a portent repeats itself three times, like something out of Julius Caesar, even Caliban, a couple of plays over, is bound to notice.”
― Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

“Portents of the future are concealed in history.”
― Carmine Savastano