#fin

I do not, as a rule, do encores. When I have finished playing, I have indeed finished playing. I have nothing left; there has been no reserve. ↗

— Bill Dixon

#encores #finished #i #i do #indeed

Vasco bought a bottle of vodka to celebrate and they drank it in the old sailors' graveyard in Mangrove South. This was where the funeral business had first put down its roots. Over the wall, between two warehouses, Jed could just make out the Witch's Fingers, four long talons of sand that lay in the mouth of the river. Rumour had it that, on stormy nights a century ago, they used to reach out, gouge holes in passing ships, and drag them down. Hundreds of wrecks lay buried in that glistening silt. The city's black heart had beaten strongly even then. There was one funeral director, supposedly, who used to put lamps out on the Fingers and lure ships to their doom. ↗

— Rupert Thomson

#doomeded #lamps #ship #witch-s-fingers #wrecks

Social media is the empowerment of the individual at the expense of the system. ↗

— David Amerland

#social-media #social-media-mind #business

You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to go. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#despair #fingernails #manicure #nails #life

I see dead Presidents. Lincoln, Jefferson, Franklin, and Washington. ↗

— Nicole Fende

#profit #small-business #business

You cannot stoke the fires of prejudice against German people and then not find that somewhere, sometime down the road it doesn't discharge. ↗

— Ernst Zundel

#cannot #discharge #down #down the road #find

Hedge funds have made massive leveraged credit bets, knowing that their upside is billions in fees and their downside is millions in fees. ↗

— Janet M. Tavakoli

#finance #financial-crisis #hedge-funds #structured-finance #business

The strangeness of Time. Not in its passing, which can seem infinite, like a tunnel whose end you can't see, whose beginning you've forgotten, but in the sudden realization that something finite, has passed, and is irretrievable. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#finality #time #change

I saw you, and I wanted to be close to you. I wanted you to let me in. I wanted to know you in a way no one else did. I wanted you, all of you. That wanting nearly drove me mad.” Patch paused, inhaling softly, as though breathing me in. “And now that I have you, the only thing that terrifies me is having to go back to that place. Having to want you all over again, with no hope of my desire ever being fulfilled. You’re mine, Angel. Every last piece of you. I won’t let anything change that. ↗

— Becca Fitzpatrick

#nora #patch #change

I saw you, and I wanted to be close to you. I wanted you to let me in. I wanted to know you in a way no one else did. I wanted you, all of you. That wanting nearly drove me mad." Patch paused, inhaling softly, as though breathing me in. "And now that I have you, the only thing that terrifies me is having to go back to that place. Having to want you all over again, with no hope of my desire ever being fulfilled. You're mine, Angel. Every last piece of you. I won't let anything change that. ↗

— Becca Fitzpatrick

#finale #hush-hush #love #nora-grey #patch-and-nora