Best Your Fingers Words
194 Your Fingers quotes by 167 unique authors
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Snowflakes swirl down gently in the deep blue haze beyond the window. The outside world is a dream. Inside, the fireplace is brightly lit, and…
— Vera Nazarian
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Tell them there are no holes for your fingers in the masks of men. Tell them how could you ever even hope to love what…
— David Foster Wallace
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Writing is not just the technical act of your fingers on the keyboard. Writing is living.
— Melissa Marr
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Faith seems to grab people and not let go, but hope is a double-crosser. It can beat it on you anytime; it's your job to…
— Judy Blundell
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One day you will hear the sound of time rustling as it slips through your fingers like sand. Remember me then. I wish you luck.
— Sergei Lukyanenko
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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…
— Cassandra Clare
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Taren Ferry folk had a reputation for slyness and trickery. If you shook hands with a Taren Ferry man, people said, you counted your fingers…
— Robert Jordan
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Letting go. Everyone talks about it like it's the easiest thing. Unfurl your fingers one by one until your hand is open.
— Gayle Forman
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Who taught you to write in blood on my back? Who taught you to use your hands as branding irons? You have scored your name…
— Jeanette Winterson
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One day, lad, your eyes will light upon a woman, and you will never forget that glint in her eye, that toss of her head,…
— Helen Hollick
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Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.
— Robin Sloan
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Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going, your fingers in…
— Eudora Welty
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By now you know: I come from another planet. But I will never say to you, "Take me to your leaders." Even I--unused to your…
— Margaret Atwood
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You turned your head to look at me. Your eyes looked so big in your face, so mysterious — wide and flickering like a butterfly-wing…
— Francesca Lia Block
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The past stays on you the way powdered sugar stays on your fingers. Some people can get rid of it but it’s still there, the…
— Erin Morgenstern
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Rain slips through your fingers as easily as words blow away in the wind, and yet it has the power to destroy your whole world.
— Karen Maitland
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When you write, it’s like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring them unity. Your fingers have still…
— Edwidge Danticat
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You need to grab your dream out of the sky like it's a kite and pinch the string through your fingers until you reach the…
— Augusten Burroughs
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Every time I go to sleep, I know I may never wake up. How could anyone expect to? You drop your tiny, helpless mind into…
— Isaac Marion
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Say the whole point of love is to try to get your fingers through the holes in the lover's mask. To get some kind of…
— David Foster Wallace
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Who says you cannot hold the moon in your hand? Tonight when the stars come out and the moon rises in the velvet sky, look…
— Vera Nazarian
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That's what I love about writing. Once you get the words down on paper, in print, they start to make sense. It's like you don't…
— Ellen Wittlinger
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Instead I will say, "Take me to your trees. Take me to your breakfasts, your sunsets, your bad dreams, your shoes, your nouns. Take me…
— Margaret Atwood
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There are many reasons, of course, why someone might snap their fingers and grin. If you heard some pleasing music, for instance, you might snap…
— Daniel Handler
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One time Allie and I skipped school and went to see this foreign film called Los Diablos, where these villagers found a glowing blue ball…
— Michael Thomas Ford
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