"Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it."
— Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)

"In this totally dark world, you can't live unless you're needed by someone."
— Hotaru Odagiri

"Karma will come back and hunt you."
— Earl, from My name is Earl's sitcom

"Something that is yours forever is never precious"
— Chaim Potok (My Name Is Asher Lev)

"Xxxx xxxx x xxxx, xxxxx xxx x xxx xxx x xxxx. Xxxx xxxx xxxx x xxxxx xxxx xx Xxxxxxx."
— Pseudonymous Bosch (The Name of this Book is Secret)

"Please be SILENT and LISTEN.
I am the SCHOOLMASTER
and you are in the CLASSROOM.
Just like ELEVEN PLUS TWO equals
TWELVE PLUS ONE,
And even a FUNERAL can be REAL FUN,
You will find my DICTIONARY
is quite INDICATORY.
If you want to read my story, just look...
THEN UNREAD."
— Pseudonymous Bosch (The Name of this Book is Secret)

"Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen."
— Orhan Pamuk

"If you have no faith in yourself, then have faith in the things you call truth. You know what must be done. You may not have courage or trust or understanding or the will to do it, but you know what must be done. You can't turn back. There is now answer behind you. You fear what you cannot name. So look at it and find a name for it. Turn your face forward and learn. Do what must be done.
-Deth to Morgon, Prince of Hed-"
— Patricia A. McKillip (The Riddle-Master of Hed)

"I am a mess. Like that MargieMocha, I am spilled across a floor, but there's nobody to mop me up. I have only one thing to show for the day: Perry Delloplane. The sound of a name. It is a grape in my mouth. I roll it over and over on my tongue--perrydelloplaneperrydelloplaneperrydelloplaneperrydelloplane--but when I try to crush it with my teeth, it slips away."
— Jerry Spinelli (Love, Stargirl)

"When he looked up, he said, "Clare told me about Christmas." And I swear the boy's face began to shine. I recognized what I saw there: that a person's name could be infinitely precious, that just saying it could make you feel singled out for glory."
— Marisa de los Santos (Belong to Me: A Novel)

"your name your name, paragal, in the old toung, means 'one of pure light' and so you once were. but know this: when your stroke gfalls, so shall your own star fall. Your light will go out, and you will earn a newname. You shall be caled paragor - 'one of true darkness.' darkness will be your dwelling place and it will consume you. You willl ever be hungry for what you can naver have, No darkness in alleble will be as you "
— Wayne Thomas Batson (The Door Within)

" Great is the hand that holds dominion over/Man by a scribbled name."
— Dylan Thomas

"This condemnation of technology is ingratitude, that's what it is. Blind alley, though. If someone's ungrateful and you tell him he's ungrateful, okay, you've called him a name. You haven't solved anything."
— Robert M. Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values)

"What was venerated as style was nothing more than an imperfection or flaw that revealed the guilty hand."
— Orhan Pamuk

""It is likely that a viable present can be brokered, your past is all used up now, anyway." -from "The Fortune Cookie Crumbles""
— John Ashberry

"If life deals you prunes, make pastries! They are surprisingly delicious, but most won't even take the time to learn this."
— Miriam L. Jacobs

"Barbossa: so you expect tp leave me standing on some beach with not but a name, and your word it's the one i need, watching you sail away on my ship?

Jack: no. i expect to leave you stand on some beach with absolutely no name at all, watching me sail away on MY ship...then i will shout the name back to you.

Barbossa: but that still leaves me stranded on some beach with not but a name and your word it's the one i need.

Jack: out of the two of us, i am the only one who has not committed mutiny. there for my word will be the one we will trusting. "
— Pirates