Personal Names Quotes

“I had always wished for one of those names that other girls had: Stefanie, Jasmin, Sabine. Anything but Natascha. 'Natascha' contained everything that I had not liked about my former life. Everything I wanted to get rid of, everything I was forced to get rid of.”
― Natascha Kampusch, 3,096 Days in Captivity: The True Story of My Abduction, Eight Years of Enslavement, and Escape

“Names are seeds. When they germinate, they become stories.”
― Eugene Peterson

“A name is a profession and a confession. It is an acknowledgment that we were powerless over our family lineage.”
― Lore Ferguson Wilbert, Curious Faith