Top 200 Talia Hibbert Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Her voice was sharp and expensive, like someone had taught a diamond how to speak.”

— Talia Hibbert

152. “Hey,” she called. He tried to come up with an interesting greeting and settled on, “Hi.” Inspired. Utterly inspired.”

— Talia Hibbert

153. “The world wasn’t split into unhappy endings and happily ever afters. There were blessings everywhere and a thousand shades of joy all around him.”

— Talia Hibbert

154. “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

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

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

— Talia Hibbert

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

— Talia Hibbert

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

— Talia Hibbert

159. “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

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

— Talia Hibbert

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

— Talia Hibbert

162. “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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163. “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

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

— Talia Hibbert

165. “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

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

— Talia Hibbert

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

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168. “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

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

— Talia Hibbert

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

— Talia Hibbert

171. “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

172. “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

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

— Talia Hibbert

174. “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

175. “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

176. “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

177. “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

178. “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

179. “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

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

— Talia Hibbert

181. “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

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

— Talia Hibbert

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

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184. “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

185. “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

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

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187. “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

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

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

— Talia Hibbert

190. “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

191. “Feeling is always worth it.”

— Talia Hibbert

192. “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

193. “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

194. “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

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

— Talia Hibbert

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

— Talia Hibbert

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

— Talia Hibbert

198. “Zaf burst out laughing. “What the hell did you find in the bathroom? Cocaine?”

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199. “Fairness is about you being happy, not him being punished.”

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200. “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.”

— Talia Hibbert