Top 200 Talia Hibbert Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “Life was too short to pretend that you didn’t want to check your lipstick.”

— Talia Hibbert

52. “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

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

— Talia Hibbert

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

— Talia Hibbert

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

— Talia Hibbert

56. “No. You are divine. You are impossible to get enough of. Perhaps some people would disagree, but those people don’t especially matter, because you’re mine.”

— Talia Hibbert

57. “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

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

— Talia Hibbert

59. “Fairness is about you being happy, not him being punished.”

— Talia Hibbert

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

— Talia Hibbert

61. “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.”

— Talia Hibbert

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

— Talia Hibbert

63. “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.”

— Talia Hibbert

64. “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.”

— Talia Hibbert

65. “Chloe used cuteness to disguise her inner evil.”

— Talia Hibbert

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

— Talia Hibbert

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

— Talia Hibbert

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

— Talia Hibbert

69. “Like being unwell was a crime or a scam or a self-indulgence.”

— Talia Hibbert

70. “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

71. “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

72. “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

73. “This cat, like most of its species, seemed rather judgmental.”

— Talia Hibbert

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

— Talia Hibbert

75. “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

76. “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

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

— Talia Hibbert

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

— Talia Hibbert

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

— Talia Hibbert

80. “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

81. “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

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

— Talia Hibbert

83. “He held on to you, not enough that you felt suffocated, but more than enough to make it clear you should stay right there. With him. Because he wanted you to.”

— Talia Hibbert

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

— Talia Hibbert

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

— Talia Hibbert

86. “Some people like to say that all is fair in love and war. Those people cannot be trusted with power.”

— Talia Hibbert

87. “The world wasn’t split into unhappy endings and happily ever afters. There were blessings everywhere and a thousand shades of joy all around him.”

— Talia Hibbert

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

— Talia Hibbert

89. “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

90. “My body is not my enemy. My body is me.”

— Talia Hibbert

91. “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

92. “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

93. “Long enough,” he said, low and rough, “that I’ve thought of a thousand ways to kiss you. So let me.”

— Talia Hibbert

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

— Talia Hibbert

95. “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

96. “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

97. “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

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

— Talia Hibbert

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

— Talia Hibbert

100. “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