Top 200 Talia Hibbert Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “He was a puppy and someone loving his art was a killer scratch behind the ears. That was really it.”

— Talia Hibbert

152. “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

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

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154. “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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155. “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

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

— Talia Hibbert

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

— Talia Hibbert

158. “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.”

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159. “Her voice was sharp and expensive, like someone had taught a diamond how to speak.”

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

— Talia Hibbert

161. “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.”

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162. “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

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

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

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

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

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167. “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

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

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

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170. “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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171. “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

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

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173. “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

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

— Talia Hibbert

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

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

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178. “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!”

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179. “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.”

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

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181. “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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182. “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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183. “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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184. “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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185. “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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186. “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.”

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

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

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

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191. “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.”

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

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194. “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

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

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

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197. “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.”

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198. “Feeling is always worth it.”

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199. “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.”

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200. “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