Quote by Haruki Murakami

“He thought of asking her, but for no reason he could name, the silence between them seemed too hard to break.”

— Leah Stewart

“You didn't care about the .... the name.' 'Not the name.'. He led my gaze, unfaltering, unblinking. 'Just the girl.”

— Catherine Doyle

“I couldn't help but notice that he'd pronounced her name differently, like her name, and only her name, contained all the good letters.”

— Morgan Matson

“Goddamn it, I thought, at the mention of her name. I just couldn’t get clear of these people. They were like cancer. You think…

— Barry Eisler

“(she told me her name, though she might have seen, I am sure, that I was simply dying not to know it)”

— Mary Findlater

“An emotion clamped down on her heart. It squeezed her into a terrible silence. But he said nothing after that, only her name, as…

— Marie Rutkoski

“This was killing her. She had to break the silence. This was not natural. It was too awful. People were meant to talk.”

— Julia Quinn

“The nickname had irritated and pleased her at the same time. It made her feel foolish, but she was aware that in renaming her…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“And even later, when for the first time in her life she had lain in bed with a man and said his name involuntarily…

— Toni Morrison

“She had not meant to name them, but she could not help herself; and having done so she thought, Let their names be symbols…

— Robin McKinley

“She was different and the same, and I had known her insofar as you can really know anyone, which is to say not much.”

— Bennett Madison

“I was the girl who never understood who she was to people.”

— Carol Rifka Brunt