18 quotes found
“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 ...”
“People often lose their names. Names fall into holes or get eaten by wild animals. Sometimes theyre carried away by the wind.”
“Young man, names are powerful things. You dont just go around using them for no reason.”
“A named thing is a tamed thing.”
“All words are possible, then, all names. They rain down, all these words, they disintegrate into a powdery avalanche. Belched from the volcano's mouth, they spurt in to the sky, then fall again. In...”
“Many confuse things with their names. This is a mistake. A name is only a word and a word will never be the thing itself. And, yet, names as words have power, not inherently, but because we give ...”
“None were left now to unname, and yet how close I felt to them when I saw one of them swim or fly or trot or crawl across my way or over my skin, or stalk me in the night, or go along beside me for...”
“Tenar, I go where I am sent. I follow my calling. It has not yet let me stay in any land for long. Do you see that? I do what I must do. Where I go, I must go alone. So long as you need me, Ill be ...”
“He pulls the gun away from his head and sets it on the coffee table. He wonders who first called it a coffee table. He gets to his feet and walks into the hallway. He wonders who first called it a ...”
“Once you get to naming your laptop, you know that you're really having a deep relationship with it.”
“Does it, does itI'm flailing heredoes it have a name? What you've”
“Names didn't matter; names were for toe tags and arrest warrants, not for revenge.”
“I am not warm. That is why my sister chose the name Winter for me.”
“Young man, names are powerful things. You don’t just go around using them for no reason.”
“Does it, does it—I'm flailing here—does it have a name? What you've”
