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1 " I told you before, that there are different ways to fail. Imperfection is inevitable. That’s life. But it doesn’t sound to me like you failed at all, Eve. It sounds like your dream broke, and you’ve been picking up shattered pieces, and blaming yourself when your hands bleed. "
― Talia Hibbert , Act Your Age, Eve Brown (The Brown Sisters, #3)
2 " Your abilities lie in the places people usually overlook, so you’ve been convinced you don’t have any at all. But you’re smart, and you’re capable, and if people struggle to see that, it’s their problem, not yours. "
3 " You always say such lovely things to me, Red. Do you say them to yourself? "
― Talia Hibbert , Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)
4 " And now she was mortified. She wrapped her blanket tighter around herself, as if she could disappear inside it. This was what came of liking men: rampant idiocy. She opened her mouth and searched for a way to digherself out of that particular hole. "
5 " 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. "
6 " She’d been hunting for an indescribable thrill, a feeling she remembered from nights out with her friends, but she’d misunderstood where the feeling came from. It wasn’t about drinking and partying in some dingy club. It had been about the people. The constant laughter they shared, too high on each other to care that they were being obnoxious. Group trips to the bathroom like a small army unit, where the mission objective was helping each other squat over filthy toilets without their dresses touching the seat. Belonging. "
7 " Shut up. Come here." Her stomach dipped as he lifted her, then put her between his spread thighs. Her back was against his chest. He leaned against the stone pillar of the monument they were absolutely not about to defile. "
8 " See you never can tell what rich people might do. They don't think in straight lines. It's like the more money they were born with, the fewer logic points they get. "
― Talia Hibbert , Work for It
9 " Some people (like singularly unhelpful and clearly underqualified physical therapists, unsympathetic GPs, and that supremely irritating second cousin who ate all the stuffing at Christmas) assumed that a lack of feeling in certain body parts shouldn’t affect sleep at all. Her insomnia in such situations, they said, was something she could easily overcome. Chloe liked to remind those people that the human brain tended to keep track of all body parts, and was prone to panic when one of those parts went offline. Actually, what Chloe liked to do was imagine hitting those people with a brick. "
10 " Disturbing things always seemed to happen on Tuesdays. "
11 " 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. "
12 " The thing is, Red...some of us have so many marginalizations, we might drown if we let all the little hurts flood in. So there are those, like me, who filter. I think you've noticed that I filter a lot. It's not some inbuilt shield made of money. It's just something I'm forced to do...And that's not to discount the differences between us that fall in my favor. It's just an explanation. "
13 " Like being unwell was a crime or a scam or a self-indulgence. "
14 " I don't sulk; I brood. Like Batman. "
15 " Some people like to say that all is fair in love and war. Those people cannot be trusted with power. "
― Talia Hibbert , The Princess Trap
16 " So I’m doing it for you because that’s how people should behave; they should fill in each other’s gaps. "
17 " Love is certainly never safe, but it’s absolutely worth it. "
18 " Bravery wasn't an identity, so much as a choice. "
19 " The thing about mental health was, you couldn’t take a course of antibiotics and be magically healed. Some people’s brains just thought too much or felt too much or hurt too much, and you had to stay on top of that. "
― Talia Hibbert , Take a Hint, Dani Brown (The Brown Sisters, #2)
20 " 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. "
