Top 200 Talia Hibbert Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “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

102. “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

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

— Talia Hibbert

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

— Talia Hibbert

105. “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.”

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

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

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

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110. “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

111. “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

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

— Talia Hibbert

113. “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.”

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

— Talia Hibbert

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

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116. “He leant against.”

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117. “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

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

— Talia Hibbert

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

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120. “She laughed, and it was like little bubbles of sunlight popping against his skin.”

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121. “When he’d started therapy, he’d been determined – really determined – to heal. To move on from a grief so huge that it might crush him if he couldn’t find a way to fold it up and make it safe.”

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122. “Sounds about right.”

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123. “Is a lie a thing we say,” I ask, “or a thing we let people believe?”

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124. “Ohhhhh.” Marjaana grinned wide. “Still not seeing the problem. Unless you threw up in his mouth. Guys hate that.”

— Talia Hibbert

125. “She relaxed her grip on his hair, combing through the curls lazily. The motion soothed him. He felt weightless, better than he ever had in his life. If the world ended right that second, he wouldn’t be surprised; something so perfect had to be followed by something as terrible. Otherwise reality would be out of balance.”

— Talia Hibbert

126. “And then Chloe would be forced to remember all the things she’d lost, and to wonder, for the thousandth time, what it was about her that made her so easy to leave.”

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127. “I get that you want casual. But as long as we do this, Danika,” he murmured, “no one touches you but me.”

— Talia Hibbert

128. “When it came to Chloe, it turned out Red’s ultimate goal was to make her happy. That was it. That was all. The realization jolted him like a thousand volts to the heart.”

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129. “Then there were the people who acted like it shouldn’t hurt, being rejected by the status quo like that. As if, because it came from a twisted place of inequality, it shouldn’t have any hold on her. Which was a nice idea in principle, but Eve found it mostly came from those who’d never been personally crushed by the weight of all that disapproval.”

— Talia Hibbert

130. “Feeling is always worth it.”

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131. “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

132. “He sat a few rows away and wasted an hour staring at her. At first, he told himself he was actually staring in longing at his seat, which she’d stolen, but that was a terrible lie. He knew from the start that he was staring at her.”

— Talia Hibbert

133. “Some thoughts were too big to accept all at once. She shoved this one frantically to the back of her mind before it could crack her wide open, but traces of it still lingered – like the ghost of a sparkler after you’d waved it through the air. Bright and dangerous and not-really-there.”

— Talia Hibbert

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

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135. “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.”

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

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137. “There’s nothing immoral about the way I want you...”

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138. “Platitudes are wasted on people who don’t need them.”

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139. “Hang on, let me consult with the mentally ill council.” Brad pauses. “Yes.”

— Talia Hibbert

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

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

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142. “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

143. “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. He loved Chloe like tearing through the night on his Triumph, feeling alive in motion when he couldn’t feel alive inside.”

— Talia Hibbert

144. “Faces were for sitting on, not for kissing.”

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145. “If she was going to get any work done today, she needed to feed herself, too. She should brew green tea for the antioxidants and make a healthy breakfast rich in whole grains for slow-release energy. However, since that sounded extremely difficult and her body ached as if she’d been stomped on by a god, she improvised by eating handfuls of Coco Pops straight from the box and gulping apple juice from the carton.”

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146. “What are you doing, Danika?” “Being beautiful for my people.”

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147. “I imagine depressed women are called difficult rather a lot.”

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148. “The first weekend, he’d brought a thousand bottles of water and a ton of protein bars to the bedroom and told her she wasn’t wearing clothes again until Monday. He hadn’t exactly been joking, and she hadn’t particularly minded.”

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149. “I watched because... when you paint,” she said softly. “You seem so vital. It was addictive. It felt like coming to life.”

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150. “Hurting a loved one was like running over someone’s foot; you rarely meant to do it, but the bones still broke.”

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