Top 200 Talia Hibbert Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “But coping takes a lot out of a person, too. And handling things doesn’t mean never struggling or slipping up.”

— Talia Hibbert

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

— Talia Hibbert

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

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104. “Life hurts,” he said fiercely. “It’s unavoidable. But I know the difference between torture and growing pains.”

— Talia Hibbert

105. “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

106. “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

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

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108. “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

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

— Talia Hibbert

110. “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

111. “Red,′ she whispered. ‘You don’t always have to be okay.’ She leaned closer and pressed a kiss to his cheek. He was still for a moment. But then he looked at her, and smiled, and murmured, “I know. But I am okay, with you.”

— Talia Hibbert

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

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113. “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

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

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

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116. “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

117. “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

118. “Being rescued from trees was all well and good, but she didn’t need a rescue from herself.”

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119. “He wondered if the younger generation had the strongest thumbs known to mankind. Maybe from now on, kids would be born that way, like evolution.”

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120. “Then he stopped the kiss, and she whimpered and realised the embarrassment was gone. Vanished. All she felt was happy and horny.”

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121. “I’m afraid of lots of things,” he says promptly. “Mum used to tell me fear will stunt you. Like growing a sunflower inside a cupboard. So I try to take my sunflower outside, even when it kills me.”

— Talia Hibbert

122. “The thing about mental health was, you couldn’t take a course of antibiotics and be magically healed. Some people’s brains just thought too much or felt too much or hurt too much, and you had to stay on top of that.”

— Talia Hibbert

123. “Dani was starting to realize she’d treated the opinion of everyone who’d ever left her as an irrefutable truth: Danika Brown is not worthy of love. The trouble was, building a conclusion based on irrelevant or unreliable sources never worked. And when it came to Dani’s worthiness, the only source she should really value was herself.”

— Talia Hibbert

124. “These days, Eve felt like someone who kept going, and she liked that someone, so she didn’t care quite as much if everyone else liked her, too.”

— Talia Hibbert

125. “Maybe it was counterintuitive, but Ruben had only ever wanted the submission of women who didn’t need him. Women who could live just fine without him, but didn’t want to. Women for whom handing over the reins was both a relief and a sacrifice. He wanted to own Cherry, because she already owned him. And she didn’t even know it.”

— Talia Hibbert

126. “If something keeps you human when pressure makes you feel like a volcano, hold onto that thing by whatever means necessary.”

— Talia Hibbert

127. “She was wearing her glasses now, at least, along with an enormous pink dressing gown and a pair of equally enormous bunny-ear slippers. The slippers surprised him until he remembered that Chloe used cuteness to disguise her inner evil. Sort of like Professor Umbridge.”

— Talia Hibbert

128. “Ruth decided that the next time she saw Evan Miller, she would wear her best pyjamas.”

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129. “He was a puppy and someone loving his art was a killer scratch behind the ears. That was really it.”

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130. “When are you going to act your age, Eve?”

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131. “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

132. “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

133. “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

134. “Jacob set his jaw. He didn’t appreciate Spock comments. He’s received a lot of them over his lifetime, and he knew exactly what they were supposed to imply, and they made him want to throttle people before sitting them down for a long and detailed chat on why the wold would be a much better place if they stopped congratulating themselves on being normal and started to accept that there were countless different normals, and Jacob’s kind was just as fine as everyone else’s.”

— Talia Hibbert

135. “I’ve learned how to manage my symptoms, now, of course. I have medication, physiotherapy, cognitive therapy. I’m fine, really. But I feel like a part of me hasn’t caught up with that. Like I’m still afraid of myself.”

— Talia Hibbert

136. “Thinking I need to be good enough to study. But maybe studying is what’s supposed to make me good enough.”

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137. “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.”

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

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139. “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.”

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140. “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

141. “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.”

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142. “The world would be a much better place if they stopped congratulating themselves on being normal and started to accept that there were countless different normals.”

— Talia Hibbert

143. “And most of all, he needed someone who would stay. Someone just like him.”

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144. “Perhaps they were best friends. How cute.”

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145. “Disturbing things always seemed to happen on Tuesdays.”

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

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147. “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.”

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

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149. “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.”

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

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