Stop hating Quote by Reyna Grande

“It doesn't matter how many times I've been called a name, it still hurts - and it still always comes as such a surprise…

— James Howe

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

— Evelyn Waugh

“I've always liked people with two names, because you get to make up your mind what you call them.”

— John Green

“About half the people in the world dislike their own name.”

— Haruki Murakami

“Don't call yourself discouraged anymore;it's no longer your name.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

“Names were important. You carried your name like a brand. You never lied about it, for fear of angering the god under which you…

— Frances Hardinge

“When did a name ever change what someone is ?”

— Brenna Yovanoff

“I have pride in my name, because I have pride in myself. I do not represent my name—my name represents me.”

— Jarod Kintz

“A name isn't important. It doesn't make you, you make it.”

— Sean DeLauder

“Once you gave a thing a name you gave it a life.”

— Terry Pratchett

I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It…

— Warren Kole

I loathe my name because it is mine and also because it is not mine; it is at once too intimate and seems to…

— Mark Fisher