"The Names" Quotes
The Names by Don DeLillo explores the interconnectedness of language, culture, and identity through a mysterious series of murders among an expatriate community in Greece.
fiction | 339 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
The world is full of abandoned meanings.
Words are always the first step. Before the act, before the decision, before the thing itself.
The power of names is manifest. The power to shape, to alter identity, to conceal and, yes, to annihilate.
The past is always present. It is never not here.
There is no logic to the way my mind works. All I know is that it does.
To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace.
We are all hostages of our own identity. The thought that we are not is an illusion.
The world is full of signals. Signals to lure us, guide us, manipulate us. We are surrounded by them, drowning in them.
The names are the holes in reality, the holes that we fill with our lives.
Memory is a net we cast into the sea of time, hoping to catch something.
