“Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an impostor.”

Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.53, p. 191
Religious-based Quotes

This is Your Brain on Music (2006)

Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 76.

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.

Source: The Song of Achilles

"La Paquet Rouge" in Opéra (1925)

Source: Disturbing the Peace (1986), Ch. 2 : Writing for the Stage

Interview http://www.lordotrings.com/interview.asp with Dennis Gerrolt, first broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 programme "Now Read On" (January 1971)
Context: It gives me great pleasure, a good name. I always in writing start with a name. Give me a name and it produces a story, not the other way about normally.

J. Agee, trans. (1989), p. 145
Das Geheimherz der Uhr [The Secret Heart of the Clock] (1987)