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“He’s not supposed to address me unless he’s calling me a know-it-all or challenging me to a duel.”
― Talia Hibbert, Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute

“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, Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute

“I don’t know. It must be the fading painkillers that are making my internal organs jump around like this.”
― Talia Hibbert, Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute

“So Your Old Best Friend Admits She Was Wrong and Hating Her Is Getting Exhausting.”
― Talia Hibbert, Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute

“Even if neither of us ever did anything interesting in our entire lives, it wouldn’t matter. You don’t need to be special or significant to have value. You’re just important, always, and people either see that or they don’t. They either love you, or they don’t.”
― Talia Hibbert, Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute

“Hang on, let me consult with the mentally ill council.” Brad pauses. “Yes.”
― Talia Hibbert, Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute

“I have control over that. I have control over myself. My dad doesn’t.”
― Talia Hibbert, Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute

“Thinking I need to be good enough to study. But maybe studying is what’s supposed to make me good enough.”
― Talia Hibbert, Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute

“It’s because he’s ashamed of himself. He carries this pile of guilt around, caused by nothing but his own choices. And every day he doesn’t parent you, doesn’t treat you the way he should, that guilt gets heavier, and when he sees you, is reminded of you, it becomes unbearable. What he doesn’t realize is the difference between short-term and long-term pain. If he put up with his discomfort years ago in order to do right by you—if he had taken responsibility for his actions and tried to make it up to you—that guilt of his might have gone away. Instead, he’s doomed himself to slowly die beneath it.”
― Talia Hibbert, Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute

“Hey, remember when Forbes called you guys the last great American dynasty and then Taylor Swift used that as the title of a song?”
― Abby Jimenez, Part of Your World

“I know it hurts,” I said. “But just think, now you’ll know what it feels like for a man with a cold.” Jessica’s favorite delivery line.”
― Abby Jimenez, Part of Your World

“Don’t flatter yourself. I care about everyone’s feelings.” “Yeah? What about your own?”
― Talia Hibbert, Get a Life, Chloe Brown

“What the stories never said: at the end of the day, if a man wants to kill you, he kills you. It’s not on you to convince him not to.”
― Clémence Michallon, The Quiet Tenant

“you could see them dissociating at 2:00 p.m. on a Monday with the rest of us.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“You always know the moment you fall.”)”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“I didn’t need to be fixed. I just needed . . . to be reminded that I was human.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“A cardboard pizza across a yellow table. A friend, lost in a memory, but alive in the taste of a half-burnt brownie. Love in a lemon pie.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“It was good to see you again, Lemon,” before he slipped out of the conference room, and I was left, mouth open, staring after him.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“Like meeting an old friend seven years later.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“The sadness will last forever.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip