“She was proud of her power of prophecy, though she had not yet lived to see any of her prophecies fulfilled.”

“Prophecy is history unfulfilled, and history is prophecy fulfilled.”

“[When a religious couple wrote to Sagan about fulfilled prophecies, he wrote back in May 1996:]If ‘fulfilled prophecy’ is your criterion, why do you not believe in materialistic science, which has an unparalleled record of fulfilled prophecy? Consider, for example, eclipses.”

“We were young, and we had no need for prophecies. Just living was itself an act of prophecy.”

“Self-doubt is a self-fulfilling prophecy.”

“She'd run her life according to the Prophecies and now there were no more Prophecies. She must be feeling like a train which had reached the end of the line but still had to keep going, somehow. From now on she'd be able to go through life with everything coming as a surprise, just like everyone else. What luck.”