“Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes.”

“Snap your fingers and somebody runs / You don't care how they feel just as long as they come / Got your head in the stars now you've come this far / Just who do you think you are?”

“It takes long practice, yes. You have to work. Did you think you could snap your fingers, and have it as a gift? What is worth having is worth working for.”

“There's no need to clarify my finger snap," said Magnus. "The implication was clear in the snap itself.”

“Magnus snapped his fingers again, menacingly. "Get up."
"Or you'll be the next one to go up in smoke," said Simon with relish.
"There's no need to clarify my finger snap. The implication was clear in the snap itself."”

“So long as you’re not a snap, you’re safe. (Nykyrian)
Snap…Syn used that term. (Kiara)
Single. Naïve. Amateur. Person. (Nykyrian)”

“The sound of a code being broken is usually the same as that of somebody snapping his fingers.”

“If architecture is the history of all phallic emotion, the Empire State Building is utter catharsis, and we are sitting in its silhouette.”

“My mother moves so fast I do not even see it coming. But she slaps my face hard enough to make my head snap backward. She leaves a print that stains me long after it’s faded. Just so you know: shame is five-fingered.”

“Maybe your history just repeats and repeats until it batters you enough to snap the seams that hold you together”