Love Quote by Ian McEwan

“I couldn't help but notice that he'd pronounced her name differently, like her name, and only her name, contained all the good letters.”

— Morgan Matson

“And even later, when for the first time in her life she had lain in bed with a man and said his name involuntarily…

— Toni Morrison

“how he was different from her, but the same too.”

— Elise Turcotte

“By the time he got around to meaning it, the words had sounded fraudulent to him and he'd been afraid to pronounce them.”

— Margaret Atwood

“An emotion clamped down on her heart. It squeezed her into a terrible silence. But he said nothing after that, only her name, as…

— Marie Rutkoski

“His conversations lost some of their syllables out of shyness.”

— Michael Ondaatje

“He wanted to give her another word to say, something like luscious or whisper or strawberry. Hell, antidisestablishmentarianism would do it.”

— J.R. Ward

“Once you start changing a name, you see, there's no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.”

— Evelyn Waugh

“The nickname had irritated and pleased her at the same time. It made her feel foolish, but she was aware that in renaming her…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“They're just words. They can be changed.”

— Marjorie Reynolds

“And then it's always that one word that makes you so different and puts you outside the overlap of everyone else; and that word…

— Andrew Smith

He would say her name over and over until it devolved into meaningless sounds - mah REI kuh, mah REI kuh - it became…

— Audrey Niffenegger