#finger

From the tower battlements, Dustfinger looked down on a lake as black as night, where the reflection of the castle swam in a sea of stars. The wind passing over his unscarred face was cold from the snow of the surrounding mountains, and Dustfinger relished life as if he were tasting it for the first time. The longing it brought, and the desire. All the bitterness, all the sweetness, even if it was only for a while, never for more than a while, everything gained and lost, lost and found again. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#inkdeath #life

As Lothaire lifted the lid with a sense of dread, Nïx murmured, “Hint: it’s the middle one.” Elizabeth’s fragile finger.Seeing it severed like this brought on a visceral reaction—pain shooting through his own hand, radiating throughout his regenerated heart. He closed the lid with a swallow, sentimentally pocketing the package. “You gave her your heart, and she gave you the bird.” Nïx sighed. “Songs will be written about this. ↗

— Kresley Cole

#iad #kresley-cole #lothaire #middle-finger #birds

What about your servant? Did he see anything?" [...]As soon as the crisis was over, Billy had fled into his necklace and I hadn't seen him since. I gave him little poke, just for the hell of it, and got back the metaphysical version of the finger. "Billy doesn't know anything," I translated. "Are you certain?" Tell him to suck my balls! "Pretty certain. ↗

— Karen Chance

#cassie #pritkin #the-finger #metaphysics

I have an independent record label called Favored Nations on which I released an album by an artist called Johnny A, who plays an arch top Gibson through a Marshall, but the tone is all in his fingers. ↗

— Steve Vai

#arch #artist #called #favored #fingers

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose. ↗

— Bette Davis

#considered #drive #fingers #fist #gathered

To play Hillary Clinton? I'm kind of winging it. No, are you kidding me? I prepared obsessively. I mean, as much as I could in the time that I was given. Of course, with someone like Hillary Clinton, obviously, anything you want is on YouTube and at your fingertips there. ↗

— Hope Davis

#clinton #could #course #fingertips #given

To aim and hit, you need one eye only, and one good finger. ↗

— Moshe Dayan

#eye #finger #good #hit #need

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#fingers #heavens #heel #her #nailed

All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God. ↗

— Voltaire

#fingers #god #knowledge #men #nose

You have to also provide a video for it, look a certain way and big hair... If you're a woman it's even more strange with fake fingernails and corsets and all this stuff that was big in the 80s. ↗

— Ann Wilson

#big #big hair #certain #certain way #corsets