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• The most terrible things men do, they do in the name of love."— Madame Dorothea

  Cassandra Clare

  Men, Terrible, Terrible Things

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• You needn't tell a bird it's a bird. Or remind a fish of its purpose. It's only us who lose our way. We have names because we must. - from Golden Tongue: The Poems of Steven Slaughter

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Bird, Purpose, Golden

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• Can you just saw his arm off while we're here and get me loose? (Amanda) I could do that, but he needs his more. I'd cut yours off before I did his. (Tate) Oh, great, what are you, his Igor? (Amanda) Wrong movie, Igor was Frankenstein's flunky. Renfield is the one you're thinking of, and no, I'm not Renfield. Name's Tate Bennett. Parish coroner. (Tate)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Cutting, Thinking, Needs

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• Let me guess. The big one is due in on the north shore? (Dante) Yes. So let’s make this quick. I have a board, a wave, and a babe with my name on them and I would like to take advantage of all three. (Savitar)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Boards, Three, Wave

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Unleash the Night”, p.175, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• A name can't begin to encompass the sum of all her parts. But that's the magic of names, isn't it? That the complex, contradictory individuals we are can be called up complete and whole in another mind through the simple sorcery of a name.

  Charles de Lint

  Simple, Magic, Mind

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• I liked my name pronounced by your lips in a grateful, happy accent.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Grateful, Lips, Accents

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.256, Penguin

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• What's your name?" Donald." Hi, Donald, missed you at the wienie roast.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Missed You

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2010). “Blue Moon”, p.331, Hachette UK

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• you know... there is a name for people who are always wrong about everything all the time.... husband!!!

  Bill Maher

  Husband, People, Funny Marriage

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• Romeo wouldn’t change his mind. That’s why people still remembered his name, always twined with hers.

  Stephenie Meyer

  People, Mind, New Moon

  "New Moon". Book by Stephenie Meyer, September 6, 2006.

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• I’m just trying to imagine you in flannel pink sock monkey pajamas. I’m sure you look stunning in pink. (Damien) Actually, with his skin tone he probably does look really good in it. I would definitely say he’s an autumn. (Kish) That’s summer, you dweeb. (Damien) I find it fascinating that you two women know that color palettes for clothes have a name. The fact you corrected him really scares me. (Sin)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Summer, Autumn, Color

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• Then love knew it was called love. And when I lifted my eyes to your name, suddenly your heart showed me my way

  Pablo Neruda

  Love, Heart, Eye

  Pablo Neruda (1986). “100 Love Sonnets: Cien sonetos de amor”, University of Texas Press

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• Dimitri was on a first name basis with one of the most badass guardians around. Of course, Dimitri was pretty badass himself, so I shouldn’t have been surprised.

  Richelle Mead

  Badass, Firsts, Guardian

  Richelle Mead (2008). “Frostbite: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.11, Penguin

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• Bound to seek recognition of its own existence in categories, terms, and names that are not of its own making, the subject seeks the sign of its own existence outside itself, in a discourse that is at once dominant and indifferent. Social categories signify subordination and existence at once. In other words, within subjection the price of existence is subordination.

  Judith Butler

  Recognition, Social, Subordination

  Judith Butler (1997). “The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection”, p.20, Stanford University Press

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• Ryssa? How do you know her name was Ryssa? (Tory) Uh…I don’t. I just gave her a name. It seemed more polite than calling her ‘hey, you, ancient chick.’ (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hey, Calling, Ancient

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.632, Macmillan

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• Menoeceus is a great name. (Astrid) For an old man or a feminine hygiene product. Not for my son. And next time I get to name the kid and it won’t be something that sounds like meningitis. (Zarek) You keep that up and next time you’ll be the one birthing it, and don’t mess with me, bucko, I have connections in that department. A pregnant man is not an impossibility in my neighborhood. (Astrid)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Kids, Son, Men

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• Yeah, well, I’ll be glad to birth it if it means I can name him something normal. (Zarek) Yeah, yeah. This from a man who whines like a two-year-old when he stubs his toe. I’d like to see you survive ten hours of childbirth. (Astrid)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mean, Men, Years

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Dream Warrior”, p.271, St. Martin's Paperbacks

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• The name's Bond. James Omar Bond.

  Eoin Colfer

  Omar

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• My name is Carter Kane. I'm fourteen and my home is a suitcase.

  Rick Riordan

  Home, Suitcases, Fourteen

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• Knot the tie and go to work, unknot the tie and go to sleep. I sleep. I dream. I wake. I sing. I get out the hammer and start knocking in the wooden pegs that affix the meaning to the landscape, the inner life to the body, the names to the things. I float too much to wander, like you, in the real world. I envy it but that’s the dealio—you’re a train and I’m a trainstation and when I try to guess your trajectory I end up telling my own story.

  Richard Siken

  Dream, Real, Sleep

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• Yesterday i carved your name into the surface of an ice cube then held it against my chest til it melted into my aching pores today i cried so hard the neighbors knocked on my door and asked if I wanted to borrow some sugar.

  Andrea Gibson

  Ice, Yesterday, Doors

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• In eleven or twelve years of writing, Mike, I can lay claim to at least this: I have never written beneath myself. I have never written anything that I didn't want my name attached to. I have probed deeper in some scripts and I've been more successful in some than others. But all of them that have been on, you know, I'll take my lick. They're mine and that's the way I wanted them.

  Rod Serling

  Writing, Successful, Years

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• More to the point, I know why soldiers, home from war, seldom tell their families about their exploits in more than general terms. We who survive must go on in the names of those who fall, but if we dwell too much on the vivid details of what we've witnessed of man's inhumanity to man, we simply can't go on. perseverance is impossible if we don't permit ourselves to hope.

  Dean Koontz

  Perseverance, War, Fall

  Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.294, Bantam

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• The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison, engages a number of employee schoolmasters as turnkeys, and covers up the essential cruelty and unnaturalness of the situation by torturing the children if they do not learn, and calling this process, which is within the capacity of any fool or blackguard, by the sacred name of Teaching.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Children, Teaching, Hands

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• There's a scientific hypothesis that every person's name is a primary suggestive command that contains the entire script of their life in highly concentrated form. . . . According to this point of view, there is only a limited number of names, because society only needs a limited number of human types. Just a few models of worker and warrior ants, if I could put it like that. And everybody's psyche is preprogrammed at a basic level by the associative semantic fields that their first name and surname activate.

  Victor Pelevin

  Warrior, Views, Numbers

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• Let his name be cleared and everyone else adjust their thinking. He had put in time, now they must do the work. His business was simple. Find Cecilia and love her, marry her and live without shame.

  Ian Mcewan

  Simple, Thinking, And Love

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