#predictingoutcomesusingforeshadowing

“I don’t know why she would want to read the paper instead of being asleep”

Sometime later, Charlotte blinked her eyes against the bright sunlight that beamed in through the open curtains. “Ahh,” she moaned as the dagger seemed to shoot through her head. It was , she realized, the kind of hangover brought on by cheap Polish potato vodka, compounded by the fact that she could no longer drink like she was twenty-two.

“Then a dog began to howl somewhere in a farmhouse far down the road—a long, agonized wailing, as if from fear.”

But I’m a streak of phenomenally bad luck, Judge D’Amici has called in sick, replaced for the day by Paul Rogers. Rodgers, a political wannabe who viewed the bench as a stepping stone to a higher state office, had earned a reputation as a hanging judge during his first term.

"Did you two ever do anything out of order?"

"You'll have others, Inshallah. You're young. Surely you'll have many other chances."

"Besides, they'll laugh at you in school. They will. They'll call you harami. They'll say the most terrible things about you."

“...Several of the part-timers had reported being pulled into the shadows and assaulted... so the company had just issued a warning that the woman should walk in groups.”