Top 200 Talia Hibbert Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “She laughed, and it was like little bubbles of sunlight popping against his skin.”

— Talia Hibbert

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

— Talia Hibbert

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

— Talia Hibbert

104. “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.”

— Talia Hibbert

105. “Sounds about right.”

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106. “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.”

— Talia Hibbert

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

— Talia Hibbert

108. “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

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

— Talia Hibbert

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

— Talia Hibbert

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

— Talia Hibbert

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

— Talia Hibbert

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

— Talia Hibbert

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

— Talia Hibbert

115. “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

116. “I’m going to stay and I’m going to love you and I’m going to try. You taught me how much that matters.”

— Talia Hibbert

117. “You’re just a cute little hermit who hisses at sunlight.”

— Talia Hibbert

118. “He wanted inside her confetti-strewn head every chance he got. It was the only foreign country he could remember wanting to visit.”

— Talia Hibbert

119. “He was one of those people, one of many, whose lives had been forever changed by someone else’s words.”

— Talia Hibbert

120. “Apparently, this climb was wearing her out – but she’d been taking irregular walks for years, damn it. Surely she should be a semipro athlete by now? Apparently not. The human body was an inconvenient and unreasonable thing.”

— Talia Hibbert

121. “I need your sunshine,” he admitted, his voice soft. “You don’t need my darkness. I know that. But I’ll give it to you anyway. I’ll give you everything I have.”

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122. “He leant against.”

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123. “His tone wry, he said, “Didn’t you tell me virginity was an outdated and patriarchal concept?”

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124. “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

125. “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

126. “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

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

— Talia Hibbert

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

— Talia Hibbert

130. “People think anxiety makes you nervous all the time, and it can, but no one ever talks about how it makes you angry.”

— Talia Hibbert

131. “Eve clearly didn’t realize that “social nonsense” was Chloe’s succinct way of phrasing “the constant disappointment that is human nature.”

— Talia Hibbert

132. “Lucky for Zaf, he was used to shoving unreasonable worries away, so he drop-kicked those ideas into the sun and moved on.”

— Talia Hibbert

133. “You’re allowed anywhere you want, as long as you’re right next to me.”

— Talia Hibbert

134. “This might be the best bad idea he’d ever had.”

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135. “Don’t judge. I have a theory that seventy percent of the global population wants to kiss you, and that’s a conservative estimate.” “But you’re the only one who gets to do it. Lucky you.”

— Talia Hibbert

136. “He’s not supposed to address me unless he’s calling me a know-it-all or challenging me to a duel.”

— Talia Hibbert

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

— Talia Hibbert

138. “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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139. “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.”

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

— Talia Hibbert

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

— Talia Hibbert

142. “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.”

— Talia Hibbert

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

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144. “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

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

— Talia Hibbert

146. “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.”

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147. “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.”

— Talia Hibbert

148. “Try to look more like yourself and less like seven guilty toddlers standing on each other’s shoulders in a security uniform.”

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149. “But coping takes a lot out of a person, too. And handling things doesn’t mean never struggling or slipping up.”

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150. “I stopped going out with my friends. I didn’t stay up late because sleep was too precious. I refused to make plans because I never knew when my body might force me to change them.”

— Talia Hibbert