“That s the problem I ve been choosing male names. You are a she! [To Saphira, while trying to choose her name. ]”

— Christopher Paolini , book Eragon

Source: Eragon

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Christopher Paolini 166

American author 1983

John Conington (1825–1869) British classical scholar

Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book IV, p. 117

“Her thought process dwindled, ceased. Then she felt her legs crumple. "I can't choose! I can't choose!"”

William Styron book Sophie's Choice

Source: Sophie's Choice (1979), Ch. 15

“But the game involves only male names. Because, if it's a girl, Laila has already named her”

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

“A woman's strength should not be in her role, whatever she chooses to be, but in the power to choose that role.”

Brandon Sanderson book Words of Radiance

Source: Words of Radiance

“If you insist on trying to get yourself killed, I insist on being the one who chooses what you wear while you recover”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Luke Garroway, Clary Fray, and Jocelyn Fray, pg. 221-222
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Heavenly Fire (2014)
Context: Clary looked down at herself. She was wearing a pair of flannel pajamas, too short in the leg and tight in the chest, with fire trucks on them.
Luke raised an eyebrow. 'I think those were mine when I was a kid.'
'You can't seriously tell me there wasn't anything else you could have put me in.'
'If you insist on trying to get yourself killed, I insist on being the one who chooses what you wear while you recover,' Jocelyn said with a tiny smirk.
'The pajamas of vengeance,' Clary muttered.