Things change Quote by Holly Black

They say that nameless things change constantly—that names fix them in place like pins.

— Holly Black

“You can put a name on anything, call it whatever you want, doesn't make it real. Doesn't make it true.”

— Katja Millay

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

— Marianne Boruch

“We cannot do anything with an object that has no name.”

— Maurice Blanchot

“All things are defined by names. Change the name, and you change the thing.”

— Terry Pratchett

“People don't always need a name.”

— Edward Averett

“I will not put a name to what has no name,”

— Shirley Jackson

“...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

“When did a name ever change what someone is ?”

— Brenna Yovanoff

“A name isn't important. It doesn't make you, you make it.”

— Sean DeLauder

“The only names of objects which connote nothing are proper names; and these have, strictly speaking, no signification.”

— John Stuart Mill

“Sometimes, when something has a name it changes things. Especially when the name is big, long, and official-sounding, like "gender-nonconforming".”

— Lori Duron