Long time Quote by Monica McCabe

“He wanted her. Her. Nothing could take that away from her. Ever. He wanted her, not the status he thought her purloined name could…

— Connie Brockway

“And I didn't stop hating my name until many years later, when I realized that it wasn't a name to be ashamed of, but…

— Reyna Grande

“her daddy, as she called him, and of whom she thought at some point every day, every single day, and whom she had loved…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“And he was forever hers. No matter whom he loved, or was loved by, the shadow of her always remained.”

— N.M. Kelby

“It's been so long since someone said my name that way, like it was a revelation and not a threat.”

— Veronica Roth

“She didn't recognize him and he didn't recognize her, because people and places change and what once was will never be again.”

— T.C. Boyle

“I sat with my anger long enough until she told me her real name was grief.”

— C.S. Lewis

“She is no longer a person in his life; instead, she is a person that other people will remind him of.”

— David Levithan

“All the while, she understood that nothing could save her from the emptiness of the years that still had to be lived. Days passed,…

— Michelle de Kretser

“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

“In the future, he will try to say her name enough, but he never can.”

— Ann Patchett

“I won’t forget you, she said silently to the dead. It seemed so pitiful a thing to say—so small and futile. And yet the…

— Diana Gabaldon