Kelley Armstrong Quotes

Whether you're choosing for yourself or for a character - or for a child - names have baggage of their own.

All the women that are first born daughters in my family are named Mary, but we've all been given nicknames. I don't know how or why that started, but I'm nicknamed after my great-grandmother, who was Mamie. No one ever calls me Mary, except only if my husband is very serious about something.

One of the things that's important about family is the narrative history they create for themselves.

I know Mother named me after a railroad man, but it's too late now, I'm afraid. Much, much too late.

I've known where my heritage is from all along.

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

Some of what I am doing when I am researching is looking for things people in my family have done and finding out what those things mean, why they did those things and seeing how I fit into them.

To my astonishment, everything that I had assumed was now questioned by the findings. What started off as a search for identity that appeared to be purely Scottish in origin ended up as a discovery of my migrant roots - indeed an understanding that almost all of our families, at some stage, have been migrants - and my European roots.

We should all know our family's story, all the more so if nobody tells it to us directly and we have to find it out for ourselves.

I didn't particularly change my name to Fonda because I knew who Fondas were. It's still going to remain a mystery. I keep it as a mystery. So, maybe one day I'll tell the story of how I changed my last name.

Some of my family goes back a long way in Denver.

Now that I know about my great-great-grandfather, I feel that John Reid and I would have got on well together.

My family and my friends definitely keep me connected to my culture.

I want my name to mean me.

I was born to a woman I never knew and raised by another who took in orphans. I do not know my background, my lineage, my biological or cultural heritage. But when I meet someone new, I treat them with respect.... For after all, they could be my people.

There is tremendous life and personality in a name. It should be at least as agonized over as any character trait.

It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand.

I really appreciate the British part of my family.

A people's relationship to their heritage is the same as the relationship of a child to its mother.

Rosecrans is a family name - it used to be a last name in our family.

It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name.

She is descended from a long line that her mother listened to.

As I don't know what life would be like without my Chaplin connections, I work with them. I'm just really happy it's a family I can be proud of; it's not as if I'm related to some Z-list celebrity.

My mom's side of the family is from Arkansas!

I know exactly where I've come from, I know exactly who my mum and dad are.