“I finish what I start, and I Finnish what I Swedish.”
“I always finish what i start”
“If he betrays you, I will finish what I started with his fingers," he said, and I shivered. "Tell him that.”
“What I've started I must finish. I've gone too far to turn back. Regardless of what may happen, I have to go forward.”
“Indeed, there is pain when spring buds burst..."Wasn't there a Swedish poet who had said something like that? Or was she Finnish?”
“... Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up. Books, bread and butter, mashed potato - one finishes what's on one's plate. That's always been my philosophy.”