The Foreshadowing Quotes

“I'm just a girl in a nurse's uniform, but that doesn't mean I know how to save these men, and they- they are men in uniforms, but that doesn't mean they know how to die.”
― Marcus Sedgwick, The Foreshadowing

“And if I really can see the future, then what does it mean? Is there any sense in our lives if everything is already out there, just waiting to happen? For if that were so, then life would be a horrible monster indeed, with no chance of escape from fate, from destiny. It would be like reading a book, but reading it backwards, from the final chapter down to chapter one, so that the end is already known to you.”
― Marcus Sedgwick, The Foreshadowing

“As for me, I see death at every turn. I see these men like ghosts waiting to be born.”
― Marcus Sedgwick, The Foreshadowing

“The war continues with no sign that it will end [...]. It's like an avalanche, started by a single gunshot, but which roars down the mountain more loudly than a thousand canons.”
― Marcus Sedgwick, The Foreshadowing

“If I can see the future, then what does that mean? It would be like knowing the end of a story right from the start, almost as if you were reading it backwards.
And who wants to know how their own story ends?”
― Marcus Sedgwick, The Foreshadowing