Last Names Quotes (3 quotes)

“We didn't have last names before they came. When they decided they needed to keep track of us, last names were given to us, just like the name "INDIAN" itself was given to us. These were attempted translations and botched Indian names, random surnames, and names passed down from white American generals, admirals, and colonels, and sometimes troop names, which were sometimes just colors.”
― Tommy Orange, There There

tags: indian, last-names, name, native-american

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“I love you, O'Reilly. When are you going to get that through your thick Aussie skull?"

He laughed softly, and she tilted back her head to look up at him wonderingly, "What's so funny?"

He put his hands on her shoulders and rubbed the tight muscles of her neck. "Do you realize you've never used my first name?" he said. "It's Patrick, you know."

He watched her lips curl into a smile that made his chest ache. "You've always been O'Reilly to me."

"Huh," he grunted. "Except when you're mad. Then I become Mister O'Reilly.”
― Candice Proctor, September Moon

tags: i-love-you, last-names

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“Some of the people who hate me love some of the sentences that I have written, until they get to the name of the person to whom the sentences are attributed.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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