Untouchable Quotes

“I think you made a mistake when you named your kid Majorca,” he replied flatly. “But I keep that to myself. Because I know how to mind my business.”
― Talia Hibbert, Untouchable

“My body is not my enemy. My body is me.”
― Talia Hibbert, Untouchable

“Platitudes are wasted on people who don't need them.”
― Talia Hibbert, Untouchable

“Zach: Want to get a drink?
Hannah: No.
Zach: Want to eat cookies and bitch about people?
Hannah: Meet you at the park in twenty minutes.”
― Talia Hibbert, Untouchable

“I am Hannah fucking Kabbah. I go to the supermarket every week without a shopping list. I once memorised an entire psychology textbook the day before an exam after realising I'd been revising the wrong module for weeks. And guess what? I got an A. I spent the first few years of my professional life keeping multiple toddlers alive. Do you know how hard it is to keep toddlers alive, Ms. Chai Latte? It's really fucking hard. And I was good at it. I do not get things wrong. I do not make mistakes. I do not fuck up FUCKING CHAI LATTES. DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME?

This is what Hannah thought. But what she said was...

Oh. Wait. Shit.”
― Talia Hibbert, Untouchable

“As she’d been drawing that conclusion, she’d also been conscious of Nate’s presence in the garden. She felt him like the ocean felt the moon, she supposed.”
― Talia Hibbert, Untouchable

“Life is full of surprises, darling, and most of them are unpleasant.”
― Talia Hibbert, Untouchable

“He leant in until their noses touched. “You could have all the issues in the world, sweetheart. I don’t give a shit. Just tell me when they’re drowning you, okay?”
― Talia Hibbert, Untouchable

“I’ve been so scared, Nate, because I realised that I love you. And I’ve never seen any evidence that loving someone can work out for me.”
― Talia Hibbert, Untouchable

“You’re dating Nate? That’s lovely, Han. He has very big hands.”
― Talia Hibbert, Untouchable

“Instead she sat rigid, locked into place by her own screaming thoughts. It was as if the volume had been turned up on all the snide whispers she’d spent the past month ignoring. Relationships aren’t for you. No-one’s going to catch you if you fall. Happiness is always temporary.”
― Talia Hibbert, Untouchable

“He stood in the doorway for far too long—not watching her leave, but staring down at his own arm. At the place where she’d touched him. The earth hadn’t moved, when her skin had brushed his. The stars hadn’t aligned, and his heart hadn’t pounded its way right out of his chest. It only felt that way.”
― Talia Hibbert, Untouchable

“Feelings were so very excessive, and uncomfortable, too. In fact, emotions were the psychological equivalent of walking on a blister.”
― Talia Hibbert, Untouchable

“but he wasn’t family. He could not be permitted to see the messy and undignified depths of her overactive emotional muscle.”
― Talia Hibbert, Untouchable

“Of course, that would require her to find a human being who didn’t irritate her 90% of the time, which had proven difficult thus far. And someone who could actually do half as good a job in bed as she did with her own hand, which had also proven difficult. But she held out hope. Sort of. Sometimes. Maybe.”
― Talia Hibbert, Untouchable

“He liked watching Hannah—he liked Hannah full stop, not that he’d ever tell her so. If he did, she’d probably just roll her eyes and turn away, which was kind of why he liked her. She was so… direct”
― Talia Hibbert, Untouchable

“It's okay. It's dark and it's nighttime and I'm drunk. So it doesn't count.”
― Talia Hibbert, Untouchable