Who ever heard of a girl named Zoe! You never did yourself. ¶ I know I never did, Roy Kemble, but just the same I think it is the most beautiful name in the world. It isn't so much what it really means; names don't have to mean anything - it's what it feels like it means.
Zoë! The high-born girl repeated her own name in genuine astonishment. / Yes, replied the negress. Rustan is very affectionate. He says that I am his Zoë, his life, because he would surely die of starvation without me..