Take a Hint, Dani Brown Quotes

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

“They wouldn’t even get to “once upon a time.” First, because she talked about banging Janelle Monáe kind of a lot, and when he’d asked what she thought of Idris Elba (everyone who was into guys liked Idris Elba, right?), all she’d said was “He’s great. I really enjoyed Luther.”
― Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown

“Currently drowning in my own blood"
(Dani's text about getting her period lol)”
― Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown

“Niceness is incredibly dull”
― Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown

“Really, what were sisters even for? Making you feel human when you're teetering on the brink of abandoning your mortal name and moving into a box in the woods.”
― Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown

“We’re not that different, you know, even if we’re facing opposite directions.”
― Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown

“He wondered if the younger generation had the strongest thumbs known to mankind. Maybe from now on, kids would be born that way, like evolution.”
― Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown

“Zaf burst out laughing. “What the hell did you find in the bathroom? Cocaine?”
― Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown

“What the hell did you find in the bathroom? Cocaine?”
― Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown

“It was just heteronormative bullshit, a societal compulsion to thrust independent and perfectly happy individuals together in a socially accepted way, so they could become vulnerable before ultimately growing too familiar with each other’s flaws and engaging in destructive behavior that would result in the heart of at least one party being crushed. Behavior such as, for example, shagging their neighbor and blaming it on their girlfriend’s supposed inattentiveness.”
― Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown

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

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

“This might be the best bad idea he'd ever had.”
― Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown

“No relationships for me, ...which means that I'm perfectly free to fake date you. ~ Danika Brown”
― Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown

“I’d say . . . anything you want to do, you can. Hurdles were made to be jumped, glass ceilings were made to be smashed.” She leaned in closer. “But all that can be exhausting, so make sure you take care of yourself, too. There’s great value in the things that bring you joy.”
― Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown

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

“Sweetie, are you crying?” “No,” he said. “I’m leaking masculine pain from my eyeballs.”
― Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown

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

“she looked at him—just looked at him, with this quiet, conscious acceptance, as if to say Maybe you’re hiding the whole story, but if you need to, I’ll let you. And something about that look leaned on every last one of Zaf’s pressure points—not in a painful way, not exactly. More like a massage that hurt really fucking good.”
― Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown

“Because 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. Every shade should be savored.”
― Talia Hibbert , Take a Hint, Dani Brown

“There’s great value in the things that bring you joy.”
― Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown

“We want what we want, and we get it however we can, and when morals or ideals or promises get in the way, we say fuck it and push right past.”
― Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown

“But no one can be fine all the time. So we’ll stay here while you’re busy being not-fine, and we won’t move until you’re done, and that’s okay.”
― Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown

“But no one can be fine all the time. So we'll stay here while you're busy being not-fine, and we won't move until you're done, and that's okay.”
― Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown

“But when it came to feelings, and learned behavior, and past hurts, you couldn’t just read a few books and try really, really hard and be better. No one could.”
― Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown

“but broken didn’t mean ruined.”
― Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown

“She’d been so young and so ridiculous, thinking she could fake certain qualities to make someone else happy. Thinking that she should. She’d never make that mistake again. Won’t you?”
― Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown

“my story didn’t need to be over if I didn’t want it to. Like, if I could just be strong enough to reclaim my emotions, and to work through them, maybe I’d be okay again. That’s kind of what inspired me to, er, keep going. To make good choices, even when feeling better seemed impossible.”
― Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown

“Just book after book about people facing their issues head on, and handling it, and never, ever failing—at least, not for good.”
― Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown

“Even when you don’t feel like it. Even when you don’t feel anything, you’re still kind, and smart, and thoughtful, and one grumpy motherfucker. You’re still you.”
― Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown