a name with a gently exotic ring to it, like birdsong, like a grain of sand in the far-off Gobi Desert or the northern steppes, whipped up by the wind, carried by storms, swirling through the sky, travelling, crossing whole countries without knowing quite how, and ending up in the crook of my ear.
Dai SijieTags: name
What can I be thinking of? Just imagine my not having presented myself to you even yet! But as a matter of fact I do not want to tell you my name
out loud; it is a romantic one, utterly inappropriate to the typically modern environment in which we now stand. Ah,
if we were only on the steep side of some mountain with the moon like a great lamp above us, or by the shore of
some wild ocean, there would be some glamour in proclaiming my identity in the silence of the night, or in the midst of lightning and thunder as a hurricane swept the seas! But here in a third-floor suite of the Royal Palace
Hotel, surrounded by telephones and electric lights, and standing by a window overlooking the Champs Elysees-
As she slowly came to, the princess, fascinated, gazed at the card, and this time her haggard eyes grew wide with astonishment. For upon the card, which until now had appeared immaculately white, letters were gradually becoming visible, and the princess read:
"Fan-tô-mas!
I want no blood from you--not until we're both sweaty and naked and you're screaming my name.
Nalini SinghTags: waiting blood seduction name sweaty
Can't you hear it?" you said. "When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.
Jodi PicoultAnd I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. All we can say is that this is a good deed, because it helps someone or that's an evil one because it hurts them. People are too complicated to have simple labels.
Philip PullmanTags: people evil good complicated labels deed name believe-in-yourself
Don’t overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.
Karl LagerfeldTags: wisdom art work story fame fashion quote educational quotes brand name designer karl-lagerfeld lebel lebeling overact tip
You don't need to know my name. You'll forget it soon enough.
Norihiro YagiFor the rest of our lives, all we can hear are our names chanted over and over, until we are deaf to everything else.
Sherman AlexieI 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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