I Know Your True Name/Quotes
Snip out their tongues before they speak your name. —Creature Feature, Here There Be Witches
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"Fear names. Names have power in identity. Others can use names as weapons. Names are a hook that can be used to track you... Remain nameless, and you shall be safe. |
Only I know your true purpose in this world, Lombax. Only I know your true name! —Emperor Tachyon, Ratchet and Clank Future: Tools of Destruction
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(A Macbeth-esque witch/Carrionite alien howls in pain/rage and vanishes} |
The Doctor: …I know who you really are. —Doctor Who, "Amy's Choice"
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Rose:I know your true name, Baba Yaga. Do you wish me to shout it now, so that all of the animals of the forest, all the birds of the air, every passing nixie and boggart will know it too? Your name will be as common as crab-grass. Would you like that, Baba Yaga? —Books of Magic, "Land of Summer's Twilight"
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You know enough not to look in my eyes, but you do not know not to ask me my name? —Constantine, Sunshine by Robin McKinley
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Names, capital N, have power. If you know something's name, you automatically have a conduit with which you can reach out and touch it, a way to home in on it with magic. Sometimes this can be a really bad idea. Speak the Name of a big, bad, spiritual entity and you might be able to touch it, sure--but it can touch you right back, and the big boys tend to do it a lot harder than any mortal. —Harry Dresden, Small Favor
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My name is Kvothe. Conjure by it at your own risk. |
The name is the thing, and the true name is the true thing. |
Wizardry lies in naming the true names of things -- in knowing what they are, and what they were. Sometimes when one learns the true name of the thing one seeks to Summon, one loses all desire to meet it face-to-face. —Gantre Silvas, in Dog Wizard by Barbara Hambly
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This is me for forever —Nightwish, "Nemo"
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