Take a Hint, Dani Brown Quotes

“Faces were for sitting on, not for kissing.”
― Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown

“Try to look more like yourself and less like seven guilty toddlers standing on each other’s shoulders in a security uniform.”
― Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown

“Because feelings had wings, but Dani didn’t, and she wasn’t about to let herself chase a tiny bird clean off a cliff.”
― Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown

“I get that you want casual. But as long as we do this, Danika,” he murmured, “no one touches you but me.”
― Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown

“There's power in knowledge passed between generations, whether it's by those books of yours or by an elders mouth.”
― Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown

“Now piss off.” With a few glares and muttered comments, off he pissed.”
― Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown

“Lucky for Zaf, he was used to shoving unreasonable worries away, so he drop-kicked those ideas into the sun and moved on.”
― Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown

“Zaf wouldn’t know what to do with a one-time thing if it showed up with a fifty-page instruction manual and slapped him on the dick.”
― Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown

“Dani was late for work, and the churn of coffee beans acted as background music to her fantasies about murdering everyone around her.”
― Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown

“I want you. In every way I can have you. And I trust you to have me, too”
― Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown

“As Gigi always said, Men are much less time-consuming when you lie.”
― Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown

“Long enough,” he said, low and rough, “that I’ve thought of a thousand ways to kiss you. So let me.”
― Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown

“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.”
― Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown

“I know you put a lot of stock in the fact that you’re ‘better’ now. That you handle things. That you cope. But coping takes a lot out of a person, too. And handling things doesn’t mean never struggling or slipping up. Life isn’t that black-and-white, not even close.”
― Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown

“But coping takes a lot out of a person, too. And handling things doesn't never mean struggling or slipping up. Life isn't that black-and-white, not even close.”
― Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown

“Feeling is always worth it”
― Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown

“But coping takes a lot out of a person, too. And handling things doesn’t mean never struggling or slipping up.”
― Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown

“Come to think of it, she’d been considering murder quite a lot, lately. Perhaps she should see someone about that, or perhaps it was simply a natural consequence of living on planet Earth.”
― Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown

“Perhaps they were best friends. How cute.”
― Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown

“I know you put a lot of stock in the fact that you're better now, that you handle things, that you cope, but coping takes a lot out of a person, too, and handling things doesn't mean never struggling or slipping up.”
― Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown

“He was one of those people, one of many, whose lives had been forever changed by someone else's words.”
― Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown

“I felt like my world had already ended unhappily, but every book I read about someone who had been through the worst and found happiness anyway seemed to say the opposite. Like my story didn't have to be over if I didn't want it to.”
― Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown

“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.”
― Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown

“I love my job because it never demands more than I can give. But lately I think I’ve been offering too much. Like maybe I’ve forgotten . . . balance.”
― Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown

“There's nothing immoral about the way I want you...”
― Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown

“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.”
― Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown

“a mix of razor-sharp insight and meme regurgitation”
― Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown

“Hadn’t since the day she’d walked in on her first love merrily boinking someone else, and never would.”
― Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown

“I think—I think Zaf loves me,” Dani wailed. There was a moment of silence before Sorcha piped up cautiously, “Oh . . . no?”
― Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown

“But then it occurred to her that in public was the perfect time to push things, just a little. Because if everything went horribly wrong, and he wasn’t interested in what she had to offer, Dani could claim she’d been faking it. Genius. Suddenly the boys at college who’d once texted her messages like Be my gf? Haha, JK. Unless . . . ? seemed like bold pioneers instead of irritating gnats.”
― Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown