Nickname Quotes

“Butterfly?" Will said. "Why Butterfly?"
"I believe it's a term of great respect," Selethen said gravely. He was very obviously not laughing. Too obviously, Will thought.
"It's all right for you," he said. "They called you 'Hawk.' Hawk is an excellent name. It's warlike and noble. But....Butterfly?
Selethen nodded. "I agree that Hawk is an entirely suitable name. I assume it had to do with my courage and nobility of heart.
Halt coughed and the Arridi lord looked at him, eyebrows raised.
"I think it referred less to your heart and more to another part of your body," Halt said mildly. He tapped his finger meaningfully along the side of his nose. It was a gesture he'd always wanted an opportunity to use, and this one was to good to miss. Selethen sniffed and turned away, affecting not to notice.”
― John Flanagan

“Horace, who had been trying to find out the meaning of Kurokuma for some time now, was pleased to hear the translation.
"Black bear," he repeated. "It's undoubtedly because I'm so terrible in battle."
"I'd guess so," Will put in. "I've seen you in battle and you're definitely terrible.”
― John Flanagan, The Emperor of Nihon-Ja

“Most of us have nicknames—annoying, endearing, embarrassing.

But what about your true name?

It is not necessarily your given name. But it is the one to which you are most eager to respond when called.

Ever wonder why?

Your true name has the secret power to call you.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“Maybe they notice me wincing whenever I hear them say it, but I don't know: there are all sorts of reasons I could be wincing. Life is a wince-a-thon.”
― Frank Portman, King Dork

“Sorry, Bex," Jason said "You don't have the recognizable facial characteristics - such as a huge chin, or a large amount of real estate between the eyes - that would merit the bestowing of a criminal mastermind nickname such as Lockjaw or Walleye. Whereas Crazytop here...well, just look at her."

"Atleast I can blow-dry my hair straight," I pointed out. "Which is more than what I can say for your nose, Hawkface.”
― Meg Cabot

“One more thing," I said because I couldn't help myself. "Mallory, if your middle name is Audrey and your initials are M. A. K.. -"
She raised an index finger. "Don't say it, Beantown."
"We are totally calling you Mack now."
"Mallory fumed. "My friends in Belfast used to call me that. Constantly."
That wasn't a no so I decided we had permission.”
― Rick Riordan, Magnus Chase and the Ship of the Dead

“Now, earn your nickname and try your best to kill me.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“Nos parece que no se puede atribuir un apodo cualquiera a alguien que deberá absorberlo y sufrirlo como un atributo durante toda su vida.”
― Julio Cortázar, Historias de cronopios y de famas

“He tried to say her name, but it came out as "Merry." A word of joy, shaped in longing.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Devil in Disguise

“Tearing out a sheet, she wrote her address on it and froze as she considered a pen name. Something starting with her first initial, the one she shared with Judy.
What should it be? She thought about her usual nicknames, Jesster and Jess. But those were what her family called her. Too special to give to a stranger. Maybe something starting with a J and an e? The word came to her in a flash. Jem. Unlike anything she’d ever read or heard before, short and easy to write, and still a little bit close to her real name.”
― Kate Willis, Sincerely, Jem

“A Complete List of Lily's Nicknames
Silly
Little
Lil
Monkey
Bunny
Bunny Rebbit
Mousse
Tiny Mouse
Goose
Silly Goose
Mongoose
Monster
Monster.com
Peanut
Penuche
Pinochle
Sweet Pea
Walnut
Walnut Brian
Copper Bottom
Crazy
Baby
Puppy
Guppy
Old Lady
Crank
Cranky
Cranky Pants
Squeaky
Squeaky Frome
Tiger
Dingbat
Mush
Mushy Face
Hipster
Slinkster
Slinky
Bean
Dog”
― Steven Rowley, Lily and the Octopus

“Morrie likes the nickname.
"Coach," he says. "All right, I'll be your coach. And you can be my player. You can play all the lovely parts of life that I'm too old for now.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

“Come on, Stork Boy, aren't you excited?”
― Tamora Pierce, Tempests and Slaughter

“The duke brought her hand to his mouth and, his azure eyes glittering in the candlelight, pressed a kiss to the inside of her wrist.
And then the edge of his teeth.
She felt the warm softness of his lips, the prickle of against tender skin, and a sort of shock seemed to go straight through the center of her body.
He let her go and her wrist felt the cold of night. "Séraphine. The burning one. I should've known.”
― Elizabeth Hoyt, Duke of Sin

“Sadie felt that everything Sam did was an aesthetic choice. Not long after they'd move to California, he had had his name legally changed from Samson Mazur to Sam Mazer. The explanation he gave her: the name Masur had never meant much to him, and Mazer sounded more like the name of a Master Builder of Worlds. In the last year, he had begun to asking them to refer to him just by Mazer, like he was Madonna or Prince. "You can still call me Sam in private," Sam had said to Sadie, "but in public, I'd prefer to go by Mazer. That's my name now.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“Do you prefer Mitch? Or is Mitchell better?'..
.. Mitch, I say. Mitch is what my friends called me.
'Well, Mitch it is then,' Morrie says, as if closing a deal.
'And, Mitch?'
Yes?
'I hope one day you will think of me as your friend.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

“You have a friend named Bug?”

“Sure. Why wouldn’t I?” Chess asked. “I have another friend who keeps telling me to call her Alice even though I give her way better names— which is even weirder if you ask me.” He gave her a pointed look.”
― J.M. Sullivan, Alice

“I'm very happy that you did not marry Leighton or Tommy or any of the woefully lacking others, Sixpence."
No one but Michael had ever called her Sixpence, a silly nickname he'd given her a lifetime ago, assuring her that she was worth far more than a penny to him.”
― Sarah MacLean, A Rogue by Any Other Name

“He was sooty, muddy, and clearly exhausted, and his clothes reeked of smoke. "Poor old Buster," she said with a frown of concern. Luke had earned the affectionate family nickname as an energetic toddler, mowing down everything in his path and leaving broken teacups and vases in his wake.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Devil in Disguise

“My modest opinion is- a baby’s name should not be longer. It can be of 2 or 3 words. Say, if someone’s name is Alif Chowdhury, it is needless to keep a nickname; he can be called Alif!”
― Md. Ziaul Haque

“Get up, brat, and for the lord's sake, smooth your hair! You look the most complete romp!'
Miss Wantage did her best to comply with this direction, but without any marked degree of success. Fortunately, the exigencies of the particular mode of hairdressing affected by his lordship obliged him to carry a comb upon his person. He produced this, dragged it through the soft, tangled curls, tied the hood-strings under Hero's chin, and, after a critical survey, said that it would answer well enough. Miss Wantage smiled trustfully up at him, and the Viscount made a discovery. 'You look just like a kitten!'
She laughed. 'No, do I, Sherry?'
'Yes, you do. I think it's your silly little nose,' said the Viscount, flicking it with a careless forefinger. 'That, or the trick you have of staring at a fellow with your eyes wide open. I think I shall call you Kitten. It suits you better than Hero, which I always thought a nonsensical name for a girl.'
'Oh, it is the greatest affliction to me!' she exclaimed. 'You can have no notion, Sherry! I would much rather you should call me Kitten.”
― Georgette Heyer, Friday's Child

“One of the men he worked with was Horsethief Willy. Big Boy was very fond of him. A lot of his ideas on life originated with this man who had once been accused of stealing a horse. They didn't prove the charge, but he got a nickname for life.”
― Max Evans, The Hi Lo Country

“My nickname when I worked at the university research and teaching hospital was ‘Angel’.”
― Steven Magee

“My nickname at school was ‘Gooey’.”
― Steven Magee

“As well as sniffing my mum's precious bottles, I loved squirting the perfume onto myself, so from a very young age I walked around in a rather overpowering haze of scent. My father started calling me Fragrant Cloud, after his favorite rose- hence the name of this blog.”
― Maggie Alderson, The Scent Of You

“A pen name is a nickname.”
― Adrienne Posey

“Who would Betsy be?"
"That's my truck," he said.
"You named it Betsy?" she asked. "For real?"
Sawyer waved what was left of his cookie at her. "You have ducks on your pj's, don't judge."
"And she was inspired by who?" Sydney said with a smirk, her eyes dropping to his lips when he turned to her. "Your first love?"
"If I would've done that," he said softly, "her name would have been Squeak."
Bam.
Sidney's heart felt like it reached out and slammed against every possible surface at once.”
― Sharla Lovelace, The Cottage on Pumpkin and Vine

“Sometimes it is, unbeknown to us, the name or the nickname, not the person or the thing, that is unknown to us.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Well, don't you look all pleased with yourself, Baby Prince," Naina Kohli said. She had known Vansh his whole life and had the only voice on earth that had this particular impact on him. A potent combination of reprimand and amusement that made Vansh want to wipe his face like a toddler caught eating dirt, while also making him feel like no one else ate dirt quite as impressively as he did.
"And don't you look resplendent, Knightlina," he said, raising his glass of celebratory bubbly at her.
A flash of anger slipped past her guarded brown eyes. She hated her given name---enough to have legally changed it at eighteen. Vansh was the only person on earth who got away with using it anymore. And he only used it when that tone of hers made the otherwise nonexistent orneriness bubble up inside him. Then she smiled and did a quick half turn showcasing her charcoal-gray silk pantsuit.
"Not bad for the spurned ex, ha?" she offered.
"Not at all bad for the spurned fake ex," he countered.”
― Sonali Dev, The Emma Project

“At school the kids changed my name from Magee to Mr Magoo, to Goo, to Gooey! Gooey stuck. Ask any kid I went to school with ‘Who was Gooey?’ and they will either say my brother or me. We had the same school nickname.”
― Steven Magee