Top 200 Talia Hibbert Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “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.”

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102. “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.”

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103. “She’d learned since rescuing it a couple of days ago that this particular cat was not like most others; it lacked all grace and spatial awareness, as evident by its current path of evacuation. Streaking off in the direction of the bedroom, it managed to hit the sofa, the base of a standing lamp, and the door frame before making good its escape. Chloe had decided that this nervous clumsiness marked the two of them as a fated pair.”

— Talia Hibbert

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

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105. “What Chloe actually did to cope was take her medication religiously, write fanciful lists, play The Sims, and live through it. Sometimes it was hard, but she managed by whatever means necessary.”

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106. “He was in his forties or fifties, dark-skinned and classically handsome, wearing a suit so sharp, it should be kept away from infants and waterbeds.”

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107. “Nice guys finish anywhere they want.”

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108. “She closed her mouth again. Was she predictable, or did he just know her that well? Possibly a bit of both.”

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

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

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

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112. “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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113. “Sounds about right.”

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114. “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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115. “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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116. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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123. “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.”

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124. “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.”

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

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

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

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128. “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.”

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129. “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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130. “He leant against.”

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

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132. “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.”

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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.”

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134. “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.”

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135. “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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136. “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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137. “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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138. “People think anxiety makes you nervous all the time, and it can, but no one ever talks about how it makes you angry.”

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

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

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

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

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143. “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.”

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

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

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146. “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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147. “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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148. “I get that you want casual. But as long as we do this, Danika,” he murmured, “no one touches you but me.”

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

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150. “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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