“You are a name, not a number. Never forget that name, whatever they tell you here. You will always be Chaya—life—to me.”
Source: The Devil's Arithmetic
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Jane Yolen 28
American speculative fiction and children's writer 1939Related quotes

Light (1919), Ch. XXIII - Face To Face
Context: By what right does carnal love say, "I am your hearts and minds as well, and we are indissoluble, and I sweep all along with my strokes of glory and defeat; I am Love!"? It is not true, it is not true. Only by violence does it seize the whole of thought; and the poets and lovers, equally ignorant and dazzled, dress it up in a grandeur and profundity which it has not. The heart is strong and beautiful, but it is mad and it is a liar. Moist lips in transfigured faces murmur, "It's grand to be mad!" No, you do not elevate aberration into an ideal, and illusion is always a stain, whatever the name you lend it.

Variant: Never shall I forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Number With No Name.
Song lyrics, White Lies for Dark Times (2009)

Tessa Gray, to Clary Fray, pg. 716
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Heavenly Fire (2014)
Context: I feel a kinship with you, too, you who have lost both brother and father. I know you have been judged and spoken of as the daughter of Valentine Morgenstern, and now the sister of Jonathan. There will always be those who want to tell you who you are based on your name or the blood in your veins. Do not let people decide who you are. Decide for yourself. That freedom is not a gift; it is a birthright. I hope that you and Jace will use it.

“Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.”

“Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.”
As quoted in Mayor (1984) by Ed Koch
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