Top 200 Talia Hibbert Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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.”

— Talia Hibbert

52. “It was all so inconvenient, having people who cared about you when all you really wanted was to bottle up your feelings and never, ever speak of them.”

— Talia Hibbert

53. “Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration.”

— Talia Hibbert

54. “You won’t get your head out of your ass? Aren’t you concerned about potential suffocation?”

— Talia Hibbert

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

— Talia Hibbert

56. “He was so sweet, she was in danger of losing a tooth.”

— Talia Hibbert

57. “When I pulled you on top of me and, you know, gazed dreamily into your eyes and said I liked you, I did not mean as friends. Obviously.”

— Talia Hibbert

58. “She used to reach, once upon a time. But it hurt so terribly to fall.”

— Talia Hibbert

59. “What the hell did you find in the bathroom? Cocaine?”

— Talia Hibbert

60. “The thing is, Red... some of us have so many marginalizations, we might drown if we let all the little hurts flood in. So there are those, like me, who filter. I think you’ve noticed that I filter a lot. It’s not some inbuilt shield made of money. It’s just something I’m forced to do... And that’s not to discount the differences between us that fall in my favor. It’s just an explanation.”

— Talia Hibbert

61. “Chloe knew she was flesh and blood and bone, just like him. But she wasn’t alive like he was. Not even close.”

— Talia Hibbert

62. “The human body was an inconvenient and unreasonable thing.”

— Talia Hibbert

63. “It’s very awkward, dating while disabled. People can be quite awful.”

— Talia Hibbert

64. “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

65. “A flood of tenderness and affection, gentle, yet powerful enough to swallow entire cities whole. Familiar, but magnified. Known, but intense. The sort of love you read about in books.”

— Talia Hibbert

66. “Gigi sighed fondly. “Such strange granddaughters I have. I’m so proud. Your father is depressingly ordinary.”

— Talia Hibbert

67. “I love Bradley Graeme. As in, would give him a kidney, would wash his socks, would turn into a supervillain if he died. I love him so much I almost want to say it out loud, a dangerous and horrifying prospect I am not remotely equipped to deal with right now.”

— Talia Hibbert

68. “Don’t care,′ I say, and then I’m kissing her. It’s like birthday cake, back when sugar felt like being high. It’s like laughing as you stumble through the dark under the stars. It’s like Celine loving me.”

— Talia Hibbert

69. “You’re not just my sunshine; you’re the sun.”

— Talia Hibbert

70. “Panic is for the underprepared, the out-of-control, and the fatally inconsistent.”

— Talia Hibbert

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

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72. “Glares were her most common expression of thanks.”

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73. “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.”

— Talia Hibbert

74. “I have this small problem where my feelings leak out of my face, and my feelings are often intense.”

— Talia Hibbert

75. “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.”

— Talia Hibbert

76. “Yes, Daddy.” Rahul gritted his teeth and had a mental word with his libido. No, she didn’t mean it like that. Trust me, mate. Go back to sleep.”

— Talia Hibbert

77. “As a child, he’d caught a butterfly in a jar, and though he’d given it air holes and fed it as advised by the quick facts section of his insect encyclopedia, it had still died.”

— Talia Hibbert

78. “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.”

— Talia Hibbert

79. “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

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

— Talia Hibbert

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

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82. “There’s a big difference between being a coward and putting your emotional safety first,” he said.”

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

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84. “Had always felt somewhat nervous around her, the way Eve often did around – well, humanity in general. As if she were walking a cliff’s edge between being the easy, entertaining friend people kept around, and the irritating mess people kicked off the ledge.”

— Talia Hibbert

85. “You seem distracted.” “I’m always distracted. It’s an unfortunate side effect of being intelligent. You wouldn’t know.”

— Talia Hibbert

86. “Because you’re a big strong man who can fight off seasoned machete murderers with the power of your mighty masculinity.”

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87. “Excuse me, universe,” she whispered to the kitchen floor. “When you almost murdered me today – which was rather brutal, by the way, but I can respect that – were you trying to tell me something?” The universe, very enigmatically, did not respond.”

— Talia Hibbert

88. “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.”

— Talia Hibbert

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

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90. “I’m leaking masculine pain from my eyeballs.”

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91. “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?”

— Talia Hibbert

92. “I think you made a mistake when you named your kid Majorca,” he replied flatly. “But I keep that to myself. Because I know how to mind my business.”

— Talia Hibbert

93. “You don’t need to be special or significant to have value.”

— Talia Hibbert

94. “Come to think of it, she’d been considering murder quite a lot, lately. Perhaps she should see someone about that, or perhaps it was simply a natural consequence of living on planet Earth.”

— Talia Hibbert

95. “Hadn’t since the day she’d walked in on her first love merrily boinking someone else, and never would.”

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

— Talia Hibbert

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

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98. “She smiled, really smiled. It was bright and lopsided and absolutely stunning. It only lasted for a second, but he saw the impression of it behind his eyelids the way he might see a firework that had gone out.”

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

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100. “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.”

— Talia Hibbert