Then the terrible realization came to her, and she drew away from him.

Nicci paused at the side of the road with a sudden, terrible realization.

And in those last few seconds of consciousness came the terrible realisation.

She comes to the terrible realization that she is destined to play out the curse.

A terrible realization was beginning to come over Sherman.

Frost's gaze met hers, both of them struck in that instant by the same terrible realization.

Banks could tell she was no longer able to keep at bay the terrible realization that something bad might have happened to her son.

It is a terrible realization - that for all the will in the world, the world cannot be controlled.

As I slipped back under the covers, a terrible realization came over me.

The thoughts racing through his mind coalesced into one terrible, overwhelming realization.