Llewellyn's Complete Book of Names Quotes

“names which are relatively easy to pronounce correctly by someone whose first and only language is English have been included. Unless you speak a foreign language with relative fluency, treat names from other languages with caution, particularly languages such as Chinese, where saying a name even slightly wrong might turn something with an attractive meaning into something thoroughly unrepeatable.”
― K.M. Sheard, Llewellyn's Complete Book of Names: For Pagans, Witches, Wiccans, Druids, Heathens, Mages, Shamans & Independent Thinkers of All Sorts (Llewellyn's Complete Book Series

“Many of the names in this book are thus the sort people call "traditional." Others couldn't be further from traditional if they were distressed to within an inch of their lives and coated with a crackle glaze. Some”
― K.M. Sheard, Llewellyn's Complete Book of Names: For Pagans, Witches, Wiccans, Druids, Heathens, Mages, Shamans & Independent Thinkers of All Sorts (Llewellyn's Complete Book Series