Quote by Françoise Sagann

“And with a new name came the ultimate alleviation of some gross unspoken responsiblity.”

— Rosca Marx

“I take it, since you sought to change matters, I was the one you found boring.”

— Emma Wildes

“want to get well and truly lost. I’d like to outrun my own name if the option is at all possible.”

— Lia Riley

“Thank God for my ADD. I would have killed myself along time ago, but I got bored of it when something else diverted me.”

— Jason Hartnett

“He himself was almost never bored, and there was no man with whom it would have been a greater mistake to suppose that silence…

— Henry James

“In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy choice.”

— Richard Bach

“You had a certain way of saying my name. It was the inflection maybe, something you put into those three syllables. And now you…

— Abigail Thomas

“I changed for the better when I quit expecting others to.”

— Scott Stabile

“...by the time you've finished naming a thing, it has already changed and the name you gave it no longer defines it exactly...”

— Joann Sfar

“Once you gave a thing a name you gave it a life.”

— Terry Pratchett

“Don’t bore me with the facts, because once I’m finally forced to face them I will find myself desperately wishing that I could be…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“ . . . perhaps the reasons for a man to leave his life were too obvious for him to name.”

— Karen Thompson Walker