Fairy tales Quote by Robin McKinley

“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

“She was the Goddess Who Must Not Be Named; those who sought her never found her, yet she was known to come to the…

— Terry Pratchett

“But there were so many words out there, more words than she could ever hope to learn. How could she choose just one for…

— Kerrigan Bane

“[H]e went ahead and named them without her, pulling from the spiral notebook of names they'd been collecting, putting together first and middle names…

— Sheri Holman

“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

“Telling people her name was always a bother. As soon as the name left her lips, the other person looked puzzled or confused.”

— Haruki Murakami

“She wrote his name on a piece of paper and lit it with a match. The letters curled as they turned dark and misshapen…

— Eric Overby

“She had not been the sort to have cared about the naming of things that existed well without it…”

— Thomm Quackenbush

“She felt as if the grave stones were whispering those names to her as she walked past... Those stones that bore no names seemed…

— Cornelia Funke Inkdeath

“She had read about people-where? she could not remember this either- who refused to name their children for several weeks, feeling them to not…

— Kim Edwards

“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

“She leaves parts of herself unnamed and unexamined, and then he will name them, and she will see herself clearly in his words and…

— Gabriel Tallent