Endearment Quotes

“Hey Baby.
Baby? You're kidding me, right?
I was trying it out. No?
No.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

“Annabeth: Hey, Seaweed Brain.
Percy: Will you stop calling me that?
Annabeth: You know you love it.”
― Rick Riordan

“Do you mind if I ask you a question, darlin'?"

"Only if you stop calling me darlin'"

"Now where I come from that's a term of endearment."

"Really? Well, where I come from motherfucker is a term of endearment. Want me to start calling you that?”
― Shelly Laurenston

“Sweetheart, darling, dearest, it was funny to think that these endearments, which used to sound exceedingly sentimental in movies and books, now held great importance, simple but true verbal affirmations of how they felt for each other. They were words only the heart could hear and understand, words that could impart entire pentameter sonnets in their few, short syllables.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

“Little Fists, what's wrong?”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Kiss

“When you love someone, you end up caring about each and every person they love. When you hate someone, you end up caring about every single person who hates them.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“She never called her son by any name but John; 'love' and 'dear', and such like terms, were reserved for Fanny.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

“It's never been my desire to conquer you, Amelia. If you leave this room with me, it must be at my side. As my wife, my lover, my partner ...” His thumb brushed her lip. “My dearest friend.”
― Tessa Dare, One Dance with a Duke

“He whispered, "My Firecracker...”
― Lesley Livingston, Wondrous Strange

“Natürlich, es ist das Ende, und wir sterben. Aber das heißt nicht, dass wir nicht noch lange da sein, andere Menschen finden, spazierengehen, nachts träumen und alles erledigen können, was eine Marionette so tut.”
― Daniel Kehlmann, Ich und Kaminski

“Mein Kleines Kätzchen.”
― Tionne Rogers, The Substitute

“I can neither confirm nor deny you are a sneaky, sneaky bitch.”
― Scott Lynch, The Republic of Thieves

“Show me a movement that doesn't hate somebody, and I will join it at once.”
― Robert Anton Wilson, Right Where You Are Sitting Now

“Annoyances are strangely not so annoying when the person responsible has endeared himself to you.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year

“Word Powers:
A beautiful bitch has four legs, not two. Even terms of, so called, endearment have unintended manifestations. Guard your grill.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

“Are you sure? Because it looks bad. And you’re pale. You’re never pale.”

“I’ve seen him look much worse,” Dell said. “Like last year, when I signed him up for this online dating thing. He got all scared. He was pretty pale then.”

“Because I was stalked,” Adam said. “By a crazy person.”

“Aw, she wasn’t that bad. And she bought you that teddy bear, remember? Because you were her cuddle umpkins. How scary can a woman who says ‘cuddle umpkins’ be?”
― Jill Shalvis, Rescue My Heart

“She was always telling people to shut the fuck up. It was a term of endearment.”
― Laura van den Berg, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories

“...one lives convinced his friends are there, that contact does exist, that agreements or disagreements are profound and lasting. How we all hate each other, without being aware that endearment is the current form of that hatred, and how the reason behind profound hatred is this excentration, the unbridgeable space between me and you, between this and that. All endearment is an ontological clawing, yes, an attempt to seize the unseizable...”
― Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch

“Friends don't let friends go to hell."

- Johann Gunter in "The Bucktown Babies”
― Janine R Pestel

“Devon watched her face as the corners of her eyes crinkled a little, her cheeks blushed, and her whole face came alive. He decided then and there that he would spend the rest of his life making her smile and protecting her heart—the way she had protected his.”
― Kaylin McFarren, Twisted Threads

“My leetle baba romovaya." He grins widely and opens his arms to me, letting the rake fall where it may, and calling me by the endearment of my childhood, a reference to a yeasty cake soaked in cherry juice and plum brandy and covered in a creamy sauce- round and plump and pink and sweet, which is how he saw me. "Come give Papa a kisseleh."
I put my arms around him, and kiss his cheek, smooth-shaven and smelling of bay rum. "Hello, Papa."
"How are you doing, eh? No work meedle of day?" He shakes his hand up and down. "So fancy!"
"Got done early, thought I'd come make pelmeni with Mama."
He smiles even wider, closes his eyes and inhales deeply, as if he can already smell the little meat dumplings, swimming in butter and onions and dunked in rich, thick sour cream.”
― Stacey Ballis, Off the Menu

“Akio's voice is low, husky, and filled with sweet longing as he says, "If I could speak freely, I might say you remind me of Kannon, the goddess of mercy, with dark hair that absorbs the light. A face so lovely it blinded men... and yet, so far from a mere mortal's reach.”
― Emiko Jean, Tokyo Ever After

“You're so cute when you're possessive, Bumblebee."

Narrowing his eyes on me, he says, "I think I preferred Bubsters."

"Bumblebees are cute."

"I'm not cute."

I snort. "Debatable.”
― Rory Miles, Tainted Power - The Complete Series