Top 200 Talia Hibbert Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “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.”

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152. “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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153. “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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154. “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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155. “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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156. “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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157. “Her voice was sharp and expensive, like someone had taught a diamond how to speak.”

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

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

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160. “Truthfully, Rahul was not an IKEA fan. In fact, he considered it the fourth circle of hell.”

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161. “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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162. “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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163. “This might be the best bad idea he’d ever had.”

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

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

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

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168. “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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169. “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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170. “He was one of those people, one of many, whose lives had been forever changed by someone else’s words.”

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171. “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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172. “He leant against.”

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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.”

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

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

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

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

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178. “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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179. “Sounds about right.”

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

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181. “Ohhhhh.” Marjaana grinned wide. “Still not seeing the problem. Unless you threw up in his mouth. Guys hate that.”

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182. “She relaxed her grip on his hair, combing through the curls lazily. The motion soothed him. He felt weightless, better than he ever had in his life. If the world ended right that second, he wouldn’t be surprised; something so perfect had to be followed by something as terrible. Otherwise reality would be out of balance.”

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183. “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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184. “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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185. “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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186. “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.”

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187. “Feeling is always worth it.”

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188. “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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189. “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.”

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190. “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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191. “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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192. “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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193. “Jesus H. Christ. It’s like drowning in a bath of hormones.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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200. “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.”

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