Top 200 Talia Hibbert Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “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

2. “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

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

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4. “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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5. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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10. “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.”

— Talia Hibbert

11. “Are you worried about me, love?”

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12. “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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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22. “Read like your book is burning.”

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

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24. “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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25. “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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26. “I told you before, that there are different ways to fail. Imperfection is inevitable. That’s life. But it doesn’t sound to me like you failed at all, Eve. It sounds like your dream broke, and you’ve been picking up shattered pieces, and blaming yourself when your hands bleed.”

— Talia Hibbert

27. “He’s busy charming tenants in a block of flats in South Nottinghamshire. And.”

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

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29. “Shut up. Come here.” Her stomach dipped as he lifted her, then put her between his spread thighs. Her back was against his chest. He leaned against the stone pillar of the monument they were absolutely not about to defile.”

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

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31. “This thing we have, it’s like throwing a tangled chain into a drawer, hoping one day it’ll come out untangled again: the knot gets even bigger while you’re not looking.”

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

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33. “Anything you want to do, you can. Hurdles were made to be jumped. Glass ceilings were made to be smashed. But all that can be exhausting, so make sure you care for yourself too. There’s great value in the things that bring you joy.”

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34. “Will you answer me? You don’t have to.” But he would, because he loved her. The thought froze him for a second before he sank into it like a feather bed. Before it became the comfort that helped him figure out how to speak. He loved Chloe. He loved Chloe like a blank canvas and a finished piece and all the exhilarating, painful, stop-and-start moments in between.”

— Talia Hibbert

35. “I don’t sulk; I brood. Like Batman.”

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36. “We’re not that different, you know, even if we’re facing opposite directions.”

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37. “You’re the bane of my existence. Did you know that?” She gins. “I hoped.”

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38. “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.”

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39. “I felt like my world had already ended unhappily, but every book I read about someone who had been through the worst and found happiness anyway seemed to say the opposite. Like my story didn’t have to be over if I didn’t want it to.”

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40. “Fabulous, darling!” Gigi cried, and somewhere in the distance, Eve heard the camera whirr.”

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41. “You’d never tell an athlete to just get over a sprain; you’d give them time to recover, physical therapy, whatever they needed. Why are mental health conditions any different?”

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42. “Bliss should be held on to with both hands.”

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43. “You are a woman who, in a life filled with pain, came here to ask about love.”

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44. “Of course, she couldn’t let him know she was melting, since he was a handsome man, and handsome men must never be allowed to know the full extent of their sexual appeal. They couldn’t be trusted with the knowledge.”

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

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

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47. “Sometimes, being convenient instead of real was exhausting. So maybe from now on, she’d stop.”

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48. “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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49. “I love my job because it never demands more than I can give it. But lately, I think I’ve been offering too much. Like maybe I’ve forgotten balance.”

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50. “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