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• Irene-" "Don't call me that." "You were the princess Irene the first time we met." "It means 'peace'," Attolia said. "What name could be more inappropriate?" "That I be named Helen?" Eddis suggested. The hard lines in Attolia's face eased, and she smiled. Eddis was a far cry from the woman whose beauty had started a war.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  War, Princess, Mean

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• Granana doesn't understand what the big deal is. She didn't cry at Olivia's funeral, and I doubt she even remembers Olivia's name. Granana lost, like, ninety-two million kids in childbirth. All of her brothers died in the war. She survived the Depression by stealing radish bulbs from her neighbors' garden, and fishing the elms for pigeons. Dad likes to remind us of this in a grave voice, as if it explained her jaundiced pitilessness: "Boys. Your grandmother ate pigeons."

  Karen Russell

  Brother, Dad, War

  "Haunting Olivia" by Karen Russell, www.newyorker.com. June 13, 2005.

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• I suppose you could call me...Soot," said the thing. "Yes...Soot. I have breathed it, lived in it, and eaten it for so long that it is a fitting name." "Eaten it?" asked Suzy. "Why eat soot?" "Boredom," said Soot.

  Garth Nix

  Long, Boredom, Fitting

  Garth Nix (2010). “The Keys to the Kingdom #2: Grim Tuesday”, p.170, Scholastic Inc.

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• Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side. You must not do, you must not even try to do, the will of the Father unless you are prepared to "know of the doctrine." All my acts, desires, and thoughts were to be brought into harmony with universal Spirit. For the first time I examined myself with a seriously practical purpose. And there I found what appalled me; a zoo of lusts, a bedlam of ambitions, a nursery of fears, a harem of fondled hatreds. My name was legion.

  C. S. Lewis

  Atheist, Zoos, Lying

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• I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.

  Banksy

  Life, Death, Time

  The Sun, 2010.

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• Letitia! What a name. Halfway between a salad and a sneeze.

  Terry Pratchett

  Salad, Halfway

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• The boys and girls in the clique. The awful names that they stick. You're never gonna fit in much kid, but it you're troubled and hurt, what you've got under your shirt will make them pay for the things that they did!

  Gerard Way

  Girl, Hurt, Kids

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• You say my name like a lover, so soft, so sweet. I want to lick the word from your lips, sip the exhaled breath from your mouth. I want to possess you utterly. Right now. Right here.

  Elizabeth Hoyt

  Sweet, Mouths, Want

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• Nothing’s changed. You’ll go home. You’ll be bored. You’ll be ignored. No one will listen to you, really listen to you. You’re too clever and too quiet for them to understand. They don’t even get your name right.

  Neil Gaiman

  Clever, Home, Bored

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.142, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• ...I asked Ochto what in the name of all that was sacred he thought he was doing. "Helping you," said Dirnes. "Why?" They put the soldier down, and Ochto straightened to look me in the eye. "Because I know nothing about kings and princes, but I know men.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Kings, Eye, Men

  Megan Whalen Turner (2010). “A Conspiracy of Kings”, Greenwillow

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• True Love. I’m starting to suspect the concept is pure illusion, an insipid brand name manufactured by Hallmark and Disney.” — Cupcake

  Rachel Cohn

  Cupcakes, Illusion, Hallmark

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• Do you think its possible to live without wanting to put your name on your paintings? To belong to a group so securely you don't need to rise above it?

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Thinking, Groups, Needs

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Pigs in Heaven”, p.139, Faber & Faber

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• Don’t tell me your name. It’s likely to awaken my conscience, and that’s the last thing we want.

  Julia Quinn

  Want, Lasts, Conscience

  FaceBook post by Julia Quinn from May 23, 2010

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• The poets and philosophers I once loved had it wrong. Death does not come to us all, nor does the passage of time dim our memories and reduce our bodies to dust. Because while I was considered dead, and a headstone had been engraved with my name, in truth my life was just beginning.

  Kevin Williamson

  Memories, Dust, Doe

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• Her name is Wanda, not it. You will not touch her. Any mark you leave on her, I will double on your worthless hide.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Host, Mark, Worthless

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• What you just had is nothing compared to what I want to do to you. I want my head between your legs so I can lick you until you scream my name. Then I want to mount you like an animal and look into your eyes as I come inside you. And after that? I want to take you every way there is. I want to do you from behind. I want to screw you standing up, against the wall. I want you to sit on my hips and ride me until I can't breath. - Rhage to Mary

  J.R. Ward

  Wall, Eye, Animal

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 1-4”, p.858, Penguin

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• ‎"Intellect is the knowledge obtained by experience of names and forms; wisdom is the knowledge which manifests only from the inner being; to acquire intellect one must delve into studies, but to obtain wisdom, nothing but the flow of divine mercy is needed; it is as natural as the instinct of swimming to the fish, or of flying to the bird. Intellect is the sight which enables one to see through the external world, but the light of wisdom enables one to see through the external into the internal world.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Swimming, Light, Sight

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (2010). “A Sufi Message of Spiritual Liberty”, p.58, Library of Alexandria

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• You know what I think? Fate! That's what it is fate! There's a thing that comes after a fellow:got a name,but I forgot what it is. Creeps up behind him, and puts him in the basket when he ain't expecting it.

  Georgette Heyer

  Fate, Thinking, Expecting

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• It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life. Towards this end, experiments on living animals in classrooms should be stopped. To encourage cruelty in the name of science can only destroy the finer emotions of affection and sympathy, and breed an unfeeling callousness in the young towards suffering in all living creatures.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Respect, Nature, Children

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• Everything in the least connected with him has value for me; if someone even mentions his name it is like a little present to me-and I long to mention it myself

  Dodie Smith

  Long, Littles, Connected

  Dodie Smith (2003). “I Capture the Castle”, p.247, St. Martin's Press

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• This Church is true. It will weather every storm that beats against it. It will outlast every critic who rises to mock it. It was established by God our Eternal Father for the blessing of His sons and daughters of all generations. It carries the name of Him who stands as its head, even the Lord Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world. It is governed and moves by the power of the priesthood. It sends forth to the world another witness of the divinity of the Lord. Be faithful, my friends. Be true. Be loyal to the great things of God which have been revealed in this dispensation.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Daughter, Jesus, Father

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• Truth will set you free. And Truth has a name.

  William P. Young

  Truth Will Set You Free

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• I wonder if our names determine our destiny, or if destiny leads us to choose certain names.

  Michelle Moran

  Destiny, Wonder, Certain

  Michelle Moran (2007). “Nefertiti: A Novel”, p.127, Broadway Books

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• But in the end, back she comes. There's no use resisting. She goes to him for amnesia, for oblivion. She renders herself up, is blotted out; enters the darkness of her own body, forgets her name. Immolation is what she wants, however briefly. To exist without boundaries.

  Margaret Atwood

  Darkness, Use, Body

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.261, Anchor

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• I am no warrior, but I am a ThunderClan cat. I stay in the nursery rather than hunt and fight because that is what I do best. I care for our young as though they were my own. This is my gift to the Clan, but I do it in my own chosen name.

  Erin Hunter

  Cat, Fighting, Warrior

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