Top 200 Talia Hibbert Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Nothing changes if we don’t make it change.”

— Talia Hibbert

2. “Her thighs were soft and rippled with stretch marks, like waves across an ocean’s surface. He was more than ready to drown.”

— Talia Hibbert

3. “You don’t need to be special or significant to have value. You’re just important, always, and people either see that or they don’t.”

— Talia Hibbert

4. “Sweetie, are you crying?” “No,” he said. “I’m leaking masculine pain from my eyeballs.”

— Talia Hibbert

5. “But coping takes a lot out of a person, too. And handling things doesn’t never mean struggling or slipping up. Life isn’t that black-and-white, not even close.”

— Talia Hibbert

6. “Even if you don’t want me anymore, that doesn’t mean you should give up on everyone. On feeling things for people. On risks.”

— Talia Hibbert

7. “I’m still exhausted. But I’m not tired.”

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8. “A handsome man is a fearsome liability to everyone but himself.”

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9. “To show her every kindness she should take for granted. To make her smile and laugh and feel like herself. The way she did for him.”

— Talia Hibbert

10. “I am not hurt,” she said, “I am in pain.”

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11. “Don’t ask questions when you have no intention of listening to the answer.”

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12. “She had the kind of brilliant, decadent, Rococo beauty that made his fingers itch to grab a pencil or a paintbrush.”

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13. “Not everything needs to be fixed, Liz. Some things just need to be taken care of.”

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14. “Sometimes, thinking badly about herself required her to think badly of other people, too. To imagine cruelties and ulterior motives and falseness behind every smile.”

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15. “I started feeling afraid of my own body, like it was a torture chamber I’d been trapped inside.”

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16. “When she was sick and tired of being sick and tired, she clung to moments like this: The first shower after a flare up.”

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17. “Try not to wet yourself with excitement, you big nerd.”

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18. “I want you. In every way I can have you. And I trust you to have me, too.”

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19. “Your abilities lie in the places people usually overlook, so you’ve been convinced you don’t have any at all. But you’re smart, and you’re capable, and if people struggle to see that, it’s their problem, not yours.”

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20. “Are you worried about me, love?”

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21. “Read like your book is burning.”

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22. “You always say such lovely things to me, Red. Do you say them to yourself?”

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23. “After a while, she whispered in his ear, “Sweetie, are you crying?” “No,” he said. “I’m leaking masculine pain from my eyeballs.”

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24. “I know you put a lot of stock in the fact that you’re ‘better’ now. That you handle things. That you cope. But coping takes a lot out of a person, too. And handling things doesn’t mean never struggling or slipping up. Life isn’t that black-and-white, not even close.”

— Talia Hibbert

25. “It was technically true: she’d bombed school, every one of her professional dreams had died, none of her friends cared enough to hold her braids back while she threw up, and her last boyfriend had believed vaccines were a front for a government tracking system based around injectable microchips.”

— Talia Hibbert

26. “Happiness, independence, true solitude. Sweeter than oxygen. She breathed it in. This was, in a word, bliss.”

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27. “With a wry smile, he said seriously, “I know.”

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28. “He sounds like a warm little brook hidden partway through a hike on a summer’s day, an unexpected delight.”

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29. “She missed him. She missed him so much that she was starting to hate him.”

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30. “Dreams were shooting stars streaked fuchsia across bruised, sunset skies, and people didn’t move so much as swirl into existence toward him, and music lived under his skin. It wasn’t exactly normal, but it was what he’d grown used to.”

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31. “Because I am committed to protecting my peace and you are so far from my inner circle you’re basically a hexagon. Get thee behind me.”

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32. “You think this is a big deal because, no offense, you’ve had a lot of people in your life who claimed to care about you but didn’t act like it. That’s not me. I can cook, and right now, you can’t. So I’m doing it for you because that’s how people should behave; they should fill in each other’s gaps. Don’t think about it too hard.”

— Talia Hibbert

33. “It sounds like your dream broke, and you’ve been picking up shattered pieces and blaming yourself when your hands bleed.”

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34. “Then he slid one big, warm hand over the nape of her neck, squeezed, and said, “Don’t look so surprised. You know I love your brain.”

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35. “She captivated him at completely inappropriate moments, for no reason he could discern – not necessarily when she was prettiest. Just when she was completely herself.”

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36. “You’re exactly as brave as you need to be.”

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37. “I know what these people value in a woman. Fragility is currency, but I’m not pale enough to be permitted too much delicacy.”

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38. “Even if neither of us ever did anything interesting in our entire lives, it wouldn’t matter. You don’t need to be special or significant to have value. You’re just important, always, and people either see that or they don’t. They either love you, or they don’t.”

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39. “But this wasn’t a sexual exercise. He was barely even attractive in her eyes. She didn’t see him as an object, or anything like that. From a distance, in the dark, with that sharp tongue of his tucked away, she saw him as poetry.”

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40. “As Gigi always said, Men are much less time-consuming when you lie.”

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41. “When in doubt, remain silent –.”

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42. “If I thought like that, I’d be an entitled prick. Love doesn’t need anything in return.” He paused. “But, to be clear, I am very much enjoying getting something in return.”

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43. “There’s power in knowledge passed between generations, whether it’s by those books of yours or by an elders mouth.”

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44. “He’s burning me down to the bone. They’ll find the scar of him on my remains.”

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45. “Life was too short to pretend that you didn’t want to check your lipstick.”

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46. “His world was marshmallow pink, electric white, chocolate and earth and tropical ocean. His world was good.”

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47. “She was the sweetest person on Earth, only she wasn’t used to getting any of that sweetness back.”

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48. “Men who were delicious enough to make you lose your head should be imbibed sensibly.”

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49. “There she is, the one who puts the moon to shame.”

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50. “You’re the bane of my existence. Did you know that?” She grins. “I hoped.” I really can’t stand this girl. I wonder how long I get to walk with her.”

— Talia Hibbert