Quote by Charles Dickens

“Thorn, Gardener, get it? More skeptical people tended to believe that the Thorn family simply named itself after their high position in the Gardeners.…

— Erica Lindquist

“Oh, what is that bird?' 'It is a wheatear. We have seen between two and three hundred since we set out, and I have…

— Patrick O'Brian

“There are many rhymes about magpies, but none of them is very reliable because they are not the ones that the magpies know themselves.”

— Terry Pratchett

“My name's Sean, Jem. I'm Sean.”

— J.A. Belfield

“My name is Mr Bread." He began writing his name neatly on the board. "But you can call me Peter." Suddenly there was quiet,…

— David Walliams

“If you invited a hedge wizard to a party, he would spend half the evening talking to your potted plant. And he would spend…

— Terry Pratchett

“I visualized myself walking proudly through the olive groves, preceded by the dogs, Ulysses, and my two magpies, and trotting at my heels, four…

— Gerald Durrell

“You might think you could run away and change your name and I don't know what all. Start over. And then one mornin' you…

— Cormac McCarthy

“As Master Nathaniel jogged leisurely along his thoughts turned to the Farmer Gibberty, who many a time must have jogged along this path, in…

— Hope Mirrlees

“It’s kind of like a monkey took a big shit and tried to spell their name in it with their tail. Only, the monkey’s…

— Brittainy C. Cherry

“It took me till I was lying among the Rats and Vermin, upon the freezing edge of a Future invisible, to understand that my…

— Thomas Pynchon

“We lose names of things. Then the things they named.”

— Marianne Boruch