Top 200 Talia Hibbert Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Is a lie a thing we say,” I ask, “or a thing we let people believe?”

— Talia Hibbert

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

— Talia Hibbert

103. “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

104. “People shouldn’t be changed – but perhaps they should grow.”

— Talia Hibbert

105. “A family. A broken one, true, but broken didn’t mean ruined.”

— Talia Hibbert

106. “Just because you appear well, doesn’t mean you don’t require help.”

— Talia Hibbert

107. “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

108. “Whatever you’re thinking. Don’t. There isn’t much that takes the smile out of you like this, so whatever’s on your mind can’t be good.”

— Talia Hibbert

109. “Why on earth have you put me in a box, you baffling woman?”

— Talia Hibbert

110. “When it comes down to it, everything we feel is in our heads.”

— Talia Hibbert

111. “If we had bears it’d be in the news all the time. You know, Fine upstanding British man attacked by a bear, EU to blame, Brexit now.”

— Talia Hibbert

112. “Being friends with Brad again is weird. Not bad weird. Just... you know when you were a little kid and you went to a birthday party and ate five times the amount of sugar your parents allowed, and you felt dangerously high? It’s that kind of weird. And something in me is tense as if I’m waiting for the crash.”

— Talia Hibbert

113. “So Your Old Best Friend Admits She Was Wrong and Hating Her Is Getting Exhausting.”

— Talia Hibbert

114. “What you get out of being loved, it’s supposed to be worth the compromise. When it’s good, it makes you want to compromise.”

— Talia Hibbert

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

— Talia Hibbert

116. “Hey Eeyore, why don’t you take a second to be proud of yourself? You can poke holes in it later.”

— Talia Hibbert

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

— Talia Hibbert

118. “He turned my mind towards the issue of forever. Of trust, of togetherness. No-one had made me think about things like that before.”

— Talia Hibbert

119. “He wasn’t hers to choose, so it didn’t really matter.”

— Talia Hibbert

120. “It’s not a capital crime to have bad feelings when bad things happen to you.”

— Talia Hibbert

121. “She’d admitted her attraction; she’d hinted at feeling more; and now, his bloodthirsty little murderess was openly reluctant to end his existence. Progress!”

— Talia Hibbert

122. “One day you’re going to leave education forever, and you’ll have to face the fact that memorizing a thesaurus doesn’t make you interesting.”

— Talia Hibbert

123. “Brat.” “You say that a lot.” She grinned. “Type it into Pornhub.”

— Talia Hibbert

124. “With everyone except her sisters, she felt a slight pressure to perform, to hide away the most annoying parts of herself in order to be liked.”

— Talia Hibbert

125. “Because feelings had wings, but Dani didn’t, and she wasn’t about to let herself chase a tiny bird clean off a cliff.”

— Talia Hibbert

126. “Dani was late for work, and the churn of coffee beans acted as background music to her fantasies about murdering everyone around her.”

— Talia Hibbert

127. “So he curled his suddenly curious hands into harmless fists and told himself that the air didn’t taste like reassurance or renaissance or redemption.”

— Talia Hibbert

128. “Being with him is like watching seeds slowly germinate, fresh green shoots fighting their way free of the earth. I think he might be sun and air and water.”

— Talia Hibbert

129. “Maybe you don’t need to think as much as everyone else,” he said. “You know, because of your mighty IQ score.” “I don’t believe in IQ scores.” “Only people with high IQ scores say that.”

— Talia Hibbert

130. “Jesus H. Christ. It’s like drowning in a bath of hormones.”

— Talia Hibbert

131. “No,” Celine says, so quick and sharp I’m almost hurt for a second, before I remember that I don’t like her, and she doesn’t like me, and we are enemies.”

— Talia Hibbert

132. “Putting golden frames around my scars, that’s who I am.”

— Talia Hibbert

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

— Talia Hibbert

134. “What a shame this frost didn’t bring numbness.”

— Talia Hibbert

135. “Plus, following in her Nana’s witchy footsteps was fun and came quite naturally. Must be something about the elaborate nighttime rituals and the history of dogged womanist defiance.”

— Talia Hibbert

136. “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

137. “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

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

— Talia Hibbert

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

— Talia Hibbert

140. “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

141. “You want a baby? Tell me how to give you one.”

— Talia Hibbert

142. “Diaries were horribly organized and awfully prescriptive. They involved dates and plans and regular entries and the suffocating weight of commitment. Journals, on the other hand, were deliciously wild and lawless things. One could abandon a journal for weeks, then crack it open one Saturday evening under the influence of wine and marshmallows without an ounce of guilt.”

— Talia Hibbert

143. “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

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

— Talia Hibbert

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

— Talia Hibbert

146. “Also, please take your hand off me before my uterus explodes with lust. Actually, does the uterus even feel lust? Note to self: learn more about own genitals.”

— Talia Hibbert

147. “Feeling is always worth it.”

— Talia Hibbert

148. “Rahul didn’t count himself certain of many things. There was his life plan, which could be summed up as study and succeed; his beloved family; his numbers, which would never deceive him. And now, apparently, he was also certain of the Jasmine Allen’s brilliance.”

— Talia Hibbert

149. “Of course, he’d have to give the huntress a stern talking to before he thanked her. It was very rude to invade a man’s forest and try to murder him. He understood the impulse – he was, after all, a slavering beast of the darkness and denizen of evil – but he couldn’t condone the random slaughtering of any species, as a matter of principal.”

— Talia Hibbert

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

— Talia Hibbert