Quotes about finger
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“Reaching out to me with your hands and feeling my fingers, i whisper on your lips my infinite desire of you.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Raggiungendomi con le tue mani ed avvertendo le mie dita, sussurro sulle tue labbra la mia infinita voglia di te.
Source: prevale.net

Feeling

“she tapped her finger and nothing happened and she thought she had lost her magic, but it had only changed and it took her awhile to figure it out.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

Change

“Commander: What's that?
Foaly: It's a finger, what does look like?”

Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books

“I have a plan."
He groaned. "I was afraid of that."
"My plans areterrible."
"Isabelle's plans are terrible." He pointed a finger at her. "plans are suicidal. At best.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Suicide

“The look in Manny´s eye was the ocular equivalent of a middle finger…”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Unleashed

“Annabeth laced her fingers through his. In the light of his bronze sword, her face was beautiful.
'We're together,' she reminded him. 'We'll get through this.”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

Beauty, Light

“Jace snorted so loudly that she turned on him with a frown. He wiggled his mud-caked fingers at her. His nails were black crescents. "Filthy inside and out.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“The raft is used to cross the river. It isn't to be carried around on your shoulders. The finger which points at the moon isn't the moon itself.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

Source: The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation

“Jason's fingers itched to draw his sword. He'd met plenty of scary demigods, but he was starting to realize that Nico di Angelo--as pale and gaunt as he looked--might be more than he could handle.”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

Drawing

“If you believe you can accomplish everything by "cramming" at the eleventh hour, by all means, don't lift a finger now. But you may think twice about beginning to build your ark once it has already started raining”

Max Brooks book The Zombie Survival Guide

Source: The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead

Thinking

“Ash held one finger up. "OK. Now listen-"
Mary-Lynnette kicked him in the shins. She knew it was inapporopriate, she knew it was uncalled-for, but she couldn't stop herself. She justto.
"Oh, for God's sake," Ash said, hopping backward. "Are you?”

L.J. Smith book Daughters of Darkness

Source: Daughters of Darkness

God

“Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.”

Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …

Thinking

“I'll never understand how a man can live his life
With his finger on the self-destruct button,
Holding it there day after day,
Blinded by an obsession to press it
But lacking the conviction to do even that.”

Neal Shusterman (1962) American novelist

Source: Bruiser

Life, Understanding

“Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.”

Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary

Source: Madame Bovary

“Whoa. Fangs. She had fangs.

She leaned in, prodded them a little. Eating with those puppies was going to take some getting used to, she thought.

On impulse, she brought up her hands, turned her fingers into claws. Hissed.

Cool.”

Jessica Bird book Dark Lover

Source: Dark Lover

“Our finger prints don't fade from the lives we touch.”

Judy Blume (1938) American children's writer

“The little boys did as they were told, eager to please their deranged brother.

"," they chorused, pudgy fingers raised. And then from the corner of his mouth, Myles whispered to his twin, "Artemis simple-toon.”

Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books

Source: The Time Paradox

Boy

“He pointed a shaking finger at her. 'You,' he growled.

She jerked glances over both of her shoulders looking for the unfortunate You he was addressing. Her. Holy shite, this madman had settled on her.”

Kresley Cole book A Hunger Like No Other

Source: A Hunger Like No Other

Jerk

“Unwinds didn't go out with a bang-they didn't even go out with a whimper. they went out with the silence of a candle flame pinched between two fingers.”

Neal Shusterman book Unwind

Source: Unwind

Silence

“We don't fit in, you and me," he said. "We're both oddities no one knows what to do with. But we fit together." He took her hand, pressed her palm to his, then laced their fingers through each other's. "We fit.”

Jennifer Ashley (1974) American author

Source: The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie

“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.”

Philip Pullman book The Amber Spyglass

Source: The Amber Spyglass

Thinking

“Why do they not teach you that time is a finger snap and an eye blink, and that you should not allow a moment to pass you by without taking joyous, ecstatic note of it, not wasting a single moment of its swift, breakneck circuit?”

Pat Conroy (1945–2016) American novelist

Time

“As amusing as it was to see him lovestruck, we had to stay on track. I snapped my fingers in front of Marcus's face. "Focus," I said.”

Richelle Mead book Silver Shadows

Source: Silver Shadows

“I would remain nearer you for what time there is."

"Gone in one faerie sigh," she quoted.

Leather-clad fingers brushed over her short hair, rested on her cheek. "I can hold my breath.”

Holly Black (1971) American children's fiction writer

Source: Valiant

Quotes, Time

“I flipped the good doctor the bird.
Snorting, Gideon caught my hand and pulled me back down the hall.
"What is it with you and giving people the finger?"
"What? It's a classic.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Source: Reflected in You

People, Bird

“I kept having dreams all night. I thought they were touching me with their fingers. But dreams don't have fingers, they have fists, so it must have been scorpions.”

Roberto Bolaño book The Savage Detectives

Source: The Savage Detectives

Dreams, Night

“It was like reaching for someone's hand, then missing their fingers, or even their arm, and hitting their shoulder instead. But no matter. You hang on tight anyway.”

Sarah Dessen book Along for the Ride

Source: Along for the Ride

“After all, Fnick is Superman," said Iggy.
"Shut up, Jeff," I said, but I was smiling. I lifted Iggy's fingers to my face so that he knew.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: School's Out—Forever

Smile

“somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond
any experience, your eyes have their silence.
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you always open petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully, mysteriously)her first rose or if it be your wish to close me, i and
my life will shut very beautifully, suddenly
as the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending; nothing we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility: whose texture
compels me with the colour of its countries
rendering death and forever with each breathing”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

W [ViVa] (1931) LVII

Life, Death, World, Travel

“As we crossed the Colorado-Utah border I saw God in the sky in the form of huge gold sunburning clouds above the desert that seemed to point a finger at me and say, "Pass here and go on, you're on the road to heaven.”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Source: On the Road

God

“I did not know whether I would ever speak to her or not or, if I spoke to her, how I could tell her of my confused adoration. But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.”

James Joyce book Dubliners

Source: Dubliners

“It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to.”

Kazuo Ishiguro book Never Let Me Go

Source: Never Let Me Go (2005), Chapter 10

“From one king to another, know that I'm giving you the middle finger right now." And he was, with a smile.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Reborn

Smile

“Yeah, about that,” says Peeta, entwining his fingers in mine. “Don’t try something like that again.” “Or what?” I ask. “Or… or…” He can’t think of anything good. “Just give me a minute.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Thinking

“Jem knotted his fingers in the material of Will's sleeve. "You are my parabatai," he said, "You said once I could ask anything of you.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“The finger cut, to save the hand.”

Khaled Hosseini book And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

“The alcohol smell is on my fingers, cold and remote, piercing like a steel pin going in. It smells like white enamel basins. When I look up at the stars in the nighttime, cold and white and sharp, I think they must smell like that.”

Margaret Atwood book Cat's Eye

Source: Cat's Eye

Alcohol, Star, Thinking

“I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.”

James Madison (1751–1836) 4th president of the United States (1809 to 1817)

Money

“I'll hold on to the world tight some day. I've got one finger on it now; that's a beginning.”

Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451

World

“People say that time slips through our fingers like sand. What they don't acknowledge is that some of the sand sticks to the skin. These are memories that will remain, memories of the time when there was still time left.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Invisibility

People, Memory, Time

“She let him finish, scratching his head with the tips of her fingers, and without his having revealed that he was weeping from love, she recognized immediately the oldest sobs in the history of man.”

Gabriel García Márquez book One Hundred Years of Solitude

Source: Cem Anos de Solidão

Love, History

“I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.”

Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) French writer (1821–1880)

“I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had.”

Shirley Jackson book We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Source: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

Wise, Love

“Look how we take your children and sacrifice them and there’s nothing you can do. If you lift a finger, we will destroy every last one of you. Just as we did in District Thirteen.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Children

“Ow!" said Horace as the Ranger's fingers probed and poked around the bruise.
Did that hurt?" Halt asked, and Horace looked at him with exasperation.
Of course it did," he said sharply. "That's why I said 'ow!”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: The Icebound Land

Hurt

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

Alan Moore V for Vendetta

Source: V for Vendetta

History

“Don't make me flip you off"
"Why would I deprive you of a favourite hobby?"
"Because my finger's getting sore.”

Jessica Bird book Lover Unbound

Source: Lover Unbound

“I watched the way our fingers intertwined, and I thought, What are hands made for but this? For holding. For holding on.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: First Love

Way

“I frankly felt like the reception we received on the way in from the airport was very warm and hospitable. And I want to thank the Canadian people who came out to wave -- with all five fingers -- for their hospitality.”

George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States

People, Way

“… I would have let him go one finger at a time, until, without his realizing, he'd be floating without me. And then I thought, perhaps that is what it means to be a [parent] - to teach your child to live without you.”

Nicole Krauss (1974) American novelist

Parent, Time

“But maybe you never really had someone, she thought now. Maybe, no matter how much you loved them, they could slip through your fingers like water, and there was nothing you could do about it.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Love, Water

“I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.”

Rodney Dangerfield (1921–2004) American actor and comedian

Time

“He leans over and takes her hand. With the other he touches her face. ‘You your best thing, Sethe. You are.’ His holding fingers are holding hers.

‘Me? Me?”

Toni Morrison book Beloved

Source: Beloved

“Malcolm Dresden: Son. Everyone dies alone. That's what it is. It's a door. It's one person wide. When you go through it, you do it alone." His fingers squeezed me tight. "But it doesn't mean you've got to be alone before you go through the door. And believe me, you aren't alone on the other side."”

Jim Butcher Dead Beat

Source: The Dresden Files, Dead Beat (2005), Chapter 43

Personality

“Curran struck at my wrist. His fingers were cat-quick, but I had spent my life honing my reflexes, and he missed.
“Well, look at that.” I studied my free wrist. “Denied. Good-bye”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Strikes

Life, Cats, Study

“Cassie looked up at him, her fingers still intermeshed with his. "Sorry," she said unsteadily. "I was just scared."
"Remind me to get you scared frequently," Nick said. He looked slightly dazed.”

L.J. Smith book The Secret Circle: The Power

Source: The Power

“Have a little faith in my magic fingers”

Cassandra Clare The Bane Chronicles

Source: The Bane Chronicles

Faith

“Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. -Nana”

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)

“He reminded me of someone who put your fingers in the door and smiled and talked to you while he smashed them.”

Janet Fitch book White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

Smile

“My lips are just forming his name when his fingers lock around my throat.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“Five hundred souls.
I carried them in my fingers, like suitcases. Or I'd throw them over my shoulder. It was only the the children I carried in my arms.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

Children, Soul

“You put your hand on Corinne's back like this again and I'm breaking your fingers.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Source: Reflected in You

“She laced her fingers through his. "Good night," she whispered. With their hands clasped like children in a fairy tale, she fell asleep beside him in the dark.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

Children, Night

“No," he said, voice thick and husky. His fingers dug into the chair's arms. "You'd better not get too close."
I stopped, laughing softly. "You don't strike me as the assaulting type, Mortensen."
"Yeah, well, there's a first time for everything.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Succubus on Top

Time

“I can see his pain, see it in the way he runs his fingers through his hair, over and over, and I understand what it costs him to hide it all.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

Pain, Way, Understanding

“Sometimes, son," my father said, prying my fingers free, "you have to help the heroes along.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: Steelheart

Help

“To the wise, a prick on the finger avoids a hole in the heart.”

Donita K. Paul (1950) American writer

Heart

“That’s what religion does. It points a finger. It causes wars. It breaks apart countries. It’s a petri dish for stereotypes to grow in. Religion’s not about being holy… Just holier-than-thous.”

Jodi Picoult Change of Heart

Source: Change of Heart

War, Religion, Country

“There is an old and very wise Native American saying: Every time you point a finger in scorn—there are three remaining fingers pointing right back at you.”

Alyson Nöel (1965) writer

Source: Fated

Time

“I held a jewel in my fingers
And went to sleep.
The day was warm, and winds were prosy;
I said: "'T will keep."

I woke and chid my honest fingers,—
The gem was gone;
And now an amethyst remembrance
Is all I own.”

Emily Dickinson book The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Sleep

“No matter what all your teeth and wet fingers anticipated, there was no accounting for the way that simple joy could shake you.”

Toni Morrison book Beloved

Source: Beloved

Way, Joy

“On the other hand, you have different fingers.”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

“I came from a real tough neighborhood. Why, every time I shut the window I hurt somebody's fingers.”

Rodney Dangerfield (1921–2004) American actor and comedian

Time, Hurt

“But she laced her fingers through mine. I remember what she’d told me in New York, about building something permanent, and I thought-just maybe-we were off to a good start.”

Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

Variant: I remembered what she'd told me in New York, about building something permanent, and I thought - just maybe - we were off to a good start.
Source: The Last Olympian

“I was watching television and I saw how you stick your fingers in a person's eyes to slow them down."
Grandma Mazur”

Janet Evanovich Two for the Dough

Source: Two for the Dough

Grandma, Personality

“One can't live with one's finger everlastingly on one's pulse.”

Joseph Conrad book Heart of Darkness

Source: Heart of Darkness

“When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

“He was in my hair, my eyes, my fingers, my heart. I day-dreamed about what he was doing, thinking, seeing, smelling, feeling. I could not eat for thoughts of him.”

Lisa See book Peony in Love

Source: Peony in Love

Dreams, Feeling, Thinking, Heart

“It's all very well going round with two fingers stuck up at the world, but what happens when the world turns round and sticks them back up at you?
The world's a lot bigger than I am.”

Liz Kessler (1966) British children's writer

Source: Read Me Like a Book

World

“Evil is relative, Annalist. You can’t hang a sign on it. You can’t touch it or taste it or cut it with a sword. Evil depends on where you are standing, pointing your indicting finger.”

Glen Cook The Black Company

Source: The Black Company (1984), Chapter 6, “Lady” (pp. 192-193)

Evil, Dependency

“No chance. It'd be like cutting off our hands."
"Then learn to live without your hands."
"No, because then we won't be able to do this," Ben says, giving him the finger […]”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

Learning, Chance

“When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother's hand, his fingers could see in the dark.”

John Irving book Until I Find You

Source: Until I Find You

“The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.”

Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary

Source: Madame Bovary

Love

“I think it would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.”

Andy Warhol book The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

Source: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

Thinking

“Jem" I have an assignmation in Soho this evening with a certain attractive someone.

Tessa: Goodness. If you keep seeing Six-Fingered Nigel like this, he'll expect you to declare your intentions.
Jem choked on his tea.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

Tea

“She opened her eyes and met his. The impact was so strong he was amazed that his fingers continued playing without pause.”

Patricia Briggs book Cry Wolf

Source: Cry Wolf

Strong

“These lights, this brightness, these clusters of human hope, of wild desire—I shall take these lights in my fingers. I shall make them bright, and whether they shine or not, it is in these fingers that they shall succeed or fail.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Love of the Last Tycoon

Source: The Love of the Last Tycoon

Hope, Light

“I'll never forget my first time with you' Min said as she edged the doughnut off her finger. 'The earth moved, and then my mother asked my father who he was going down on at lunch.”

Jennifer Crusie book Bet Me

Source: Bet Me

Time, Forgetting

“Cary rocked back on his heels and twirled one index finger around another in a sign meaning, wrapped around your finger., I thought, since he was wrapped around my heart.”

Sylvia Day book Bared to You

Source: Bared to You

Heart

“I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.”

Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism

Deep

“The Queen touched her lips thoughtfully with a single long white finger. 'The Fair Folk, unlike humans, do not concern themselves overmuch with. Love, perhaps, and hate. Both are useful emotions. But…" She shrugged elegantly.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

Love, Hate

“Isn't it mysterious to begin a new journal like this? I can run my fingers through the fresh clean pages but I cannot guess what the writing on them will be.”

Maud Hart Lovelace book Betsy in Spite of Herself

Source: Betsy in Spite of Herself

“Look at me, Mariam.'
Reluctantly, Mariam did.
Nana said, 'Learn this now and learn it well, my daughter: Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.”

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

Learning, Daughters

“Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.”

Seamus Heaney (1939–2013) Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer

Source: Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996

“There are four things that make a man fight as you just did," the duke explained to Rumbold. "Love, despair, anger, or insanity."

Erik counted them off on his fingers. "Everything to lose, nothing to lose, someone's taken it, or you've lost it.”

Alethea Kontis (1976) American writer

Source: Enchanted

Love, Fight, Despair, Anger

“Wolves? I should have known. Of course you have wolves. Doesn’t everybody?” She snapped her fingers. “The gun, Lucian. Hand it over. I’ve decided I have to shoot you after all. It’s the only way to preserve my sanity.”

Christine Feehan book Dark Guardian

Source: Dark Guardian

Way

“Bring me all of your dreams,
You dreamer,
Bring me all your
Heart melodies
That I may wrap them
In a blue cloud-cloth
Away from the too-rough fingers
Of the world.”

Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist

Source: The Dream Keeper and Other Poems

World, Dreams, Heart, Clothes

“I am so stupid, so easily fooled. It's really almost funny. If I could lift a finger I would gladly kill myself.”

Will Christopher Baer Kiss Me, Judas

Source: Kiss Me, Judas

Stupidity, Fools

“Magnus held up a warning finger. "Don't overstep yourself, biscuit," he said, and moved past them, disappearing into the crowd around the portal.
"Biscuit?" said Simon.
"Believe it or not, he's called me that before," Clary said.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

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