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  1. Ursula K. Le Guin _ The Farthest Shore

    No man, no power, can bind the action of wizardry or still the words of power. For they are the very words of Making, and one who could silence them could unmake the world.
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  2. Lois Lowry _ A Summer to Die

    It's a funny thing about names, how they become a part of someone.
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  3. L.M. Montgomery _ Anne of Green Gables

    I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able to believe it. I don't believe a rose WOULD be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage.
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  4. Ray Bradbury _ The October Country

    It's poor judgment', said Grandpa 'to call anything by a name. We don't know what a hobgoblin or a vampire or a troll is. Could be lots of things. You can't heave them into categories with labels and say they'll act one way or another. That'd be silly. They're people. People who do things. Yes, that's the way to put it. People who *do* things.
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  5. Jean-Paul Sartre _ The Words

    I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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  6. Robert Louis Stevenson _ The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll

    If he be Mr. Hyde" he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek.
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  7. Geraldine Brooks _ Caleb's Crossing

    He walked through the woods like a young Adam, naming creation. I learned to shape my mouth to the words-sasumuneash for cranberry, tunockuquas for frog. So many things grew and lived here that were strange to us, because they had not been in England. We named the things of this place in reference to things that were not of this place-cat briar for the thickets of vine whose thorns were narrow and claw-like; lambskill for the low-growing laurel that had proved poisonous to some of our hard-got tegs. But there had been no cats or lambs here until we brought them. So when he named a plant or a creature, I felt that I heard the true name of the thing for the first time.
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  8. Terry Tempest Williams _ Pieces of White Shell

    I speculate over some of the Anglo nomenclature of birds: Wilson's snipe, Forster's tern . . . : What natural images do these names conjure up in our minds? What integrity do we give back to the birds with our labels.
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  9. William Shakespeare _ Romeo and Juliet

    I take thee at thy word:Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized;Henceforth I never will be Romeo.
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  10. William Shakespeare _ As You Like It

    JAQUES: Rosalind is your love's name?ORLANDO: Yes, just.JAQUES: I do not like her name.ORLANDO: There was no thought of pleasing you when she was christened.
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  11. Simone Elkeles _ Rules of Attraction

    If my name was Richard, I'd go by Richard or Rich...not Dick. Hell I'd even settle for being called Chard.
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  12. Cormac McCarthy _ The Crossing

    Things separate from their stories have no meaning. They are only shapes. Of a certain size and color. A certain weight. When their meaning has become lost to us they no longer have even a name. The story on the other hand can never be lost from its place in the world for it is that place.
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