Quotes About Identity

The old man was going nowhere to nowhere. He had no hat for his head no pack for his back. He had not a penny or a purse to put it in. He barely even owned his own name, and even that had been worn thin and threadbare through the years.

Y sí, sabia que ella no tenía razón. Sabía que todo estaba escorado. Sabía que su cabeza estaba desbaratada. Sabía que no era auténtica por dentro. Lo sabía.

If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself.

Hay dos cosas que debéis recordar. La primera es que nuestros nombres nos dan forma, y que nosotros damos forma a nuestros nombres.

It was wise enough to know itself and brave enough to be itself and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.

What about me? Where's the story for people like me?

I am a myth," Kote said easily, making an extravagant gesture. "A very special kind of myth that creates itself. The best lies about me are the ones I told.

Nous sommes bien davantage que la somme des parties qui nous composent,

I am Edema Ruh to my bones. That means my blood is red. It means I breathe the free air and walk where my feet take me. I do not cringe and fawn like a dog at a man's title. That looks like pride to people who have spent their lives cultivating supple spines.

when the lights are out all women are the same height!

Poves? ?loveka pozná každý, okrem neho samého.

Hay dos cosas que deben recordar. La primera es que nuestros nombres nos dan forma, y que nosotros damos forma a nuestros nombres. —Dejó de pasearse y nos miró—. La segunda es que hasta el nombre más sencillo es tan complejo que su mente jamás podría tantear siquiera sus límites, y mucho menos entenderlo lo bastante bien para pronunciarlo.

I never talked about my parents, and referring to them in the past tense felt uncomfortable. Disloyal.

A veces los nombres se basan en otros más antiguos. Cuanto más antiguo es el nombre, más cerca está de la verdad.

as different as water and alcohol. In equal glasses they look the same. Both liquid. Both clear. Both wet, after a fashion. But one will burn, the other will not. This has nothing to do with temperament or timing. These two things behave differently because they are profoundly, fundamentally not the same.

Tots ens expliquem una història sobre nosaltres mateixos. Sempre. Contínuament. Aquesta història és el que ens converteix en el que som. Ens construïm nosaltres mateixos a partir d'aquesta història.

I didn't ask what I could call you,

If I had been born a couple hundred years ago I would probably have been burned as a demon.

Re'lar Ambrose, are you a donkey?

Somos mais do que as partes que nos formam

Everyone knows a man's reputation except the man himself.

I have heard it from the mouths of the Edema Ruh, so I know it to be true.

But a word is nothing but a painting of a fire. A name is the fire itself.

Si quieres saber quién eres, camina hasta que no haya nadie que sepa tu nombre. Viajar nos pone en nuestro sitio, nos enseña más que ningún maestro, es amargo como una medicina, cruel como un espejo. Un largo tramo de camino te enseñará más sobre ti mismo que cien años de silenciosa introspección.