Act Your Age, Eve Brown Quotes

“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

“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.”
― Talia Hibbert, Act Your Age, Eve Brown

“You're not just my sunshine; you're the sun.”
― Talia Hibbert, Act Your Age, Eve Brown

“Sometimes, being convenient instead of real was exhausting. So maybe from now on, she’d stop.”
― Talia Hibbert, Act Your Age, Eve Brown

“You won’t get your head out of your ass? Aren’t you concerned about potential suffocation?”
― Talia Hibbert, Act Your Age, Eve Brown

“The world would be a much better place if they stopped congratulating themselves on being normal and started to accept that there were countless different normals.”
― Talia Hibbert, Act Your Age, Eve Brown

“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

“I don’t know which half of my brain is the smart half and which half is all emotional and shit."
"Maybe the smart half is all emotional and shit."
"Yes, I’d been afraid of that.”
― Talia Hibbert, Act Your Age, Eve Brown

“A handsome man is a fearsome liability to everyone but himself.”
― Talia Hibbert, Act Your Age, Eve Brown

“No. You are divine. You are impossible to get enough of. Perhaps some people would disagree, but those people don’t especially matter, because you’re mine.”
― Talia Hibbert, Act Your Age, Eve Brown

“A flood of tenderness and affection, gentle, yet powerful enough to swallow entire cities whole. Familiar, but magnified. Known, but intense. The sort of love you read about in books.”
― Talia Hibbert, Act Your Age, Eve Brown

“She used to reach, once upon a time. But it hurt so terribly to fall.”
― Talia Hibbert, Act Your Age, Eve Brown

“Diaries were horribly organized and awfully prescriptive. They involved dates and plans and regular entries and the suffocating weight of commitment. Journals, on the other hand, were deliciously wild and lawless things. One could abandon a journal for weeks, then crack it open one Saturday evening under the influence of wine and marshmallows without an ounce of guilt.”
― Talia Hibbert, Act Your Age, Eve Brown

“Read like your book is burning.”
― Talia Hibbert, Act Your Age, Eve Brown

“What if I’d killed somebody?”
“I wouldn’t be surprised, and I would visit you in prison if necessary.”
She gasped, all feigned outrage. “You wouldn’t offer to help me hide the body?”
Jacob’s lips quirked without permission. “You’ve been here quite a while Sunshine, and there’s no police sniffing around, so I imagine you hid it just fine yourself.”
― Talia Hibbert, Act Your Age, Eve Brown

“Jacob set his jaw. He didn't appreciate Spock comments. He's received a lot of them over his lifetime, and he knew exactly what they were supposed to imply, and they made him want to throttle people before sitting them down for a long and detailed chat on why the wold would be a much better place if they stopped congratulating themselves on being normal and started to accept that there were countless different normals, and Jacob's kind was just as fine as everyone else's.”
― Talia Hibbert, Act Your Age, Eve Brown

“I thought you said no man-talk?”
“They’re like ants. They get into everything.”
― Talia Hibbert, Act Your Age, Eve Brown

“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.”
― Talia Hibbert, Act Your Age, Eve Brown

“With everyone except her sisters, she felt a slight pressure to perform, to hide away the most annoying parts of herself in order to be liked”
― Talia Hibbert, Act Your Age, Eve Brown

“She laughed, and it was like little bubbles of sunlight popping against his skin.”
― Talia Hibbert, Act Your Age, Eve Brown

“I told you before,” Jacob said into the silence, “that there are different ways to fail. Imperfection is inevitable. That’s life. But it doesn’t sound to me like you’ve 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

“Some thoughts were too big to accept all at once. She shoved this one frantically to the back of her mind before it could crack her wide open, but traces of it still lingered—like the ghost of a sparkler after you’d waved it through the air. Bright and dangerous and not-really-there.”
― Talia Hibbert, Act Your Age, Eve Brown

“impressive. Eve rolled her eyes and mouthed, Men. Jacob, to her surprise, gave her a look of approval. “Quite.” “You don’t like men?” she whispered. “It depends. I don’t like imbalanced relationships, and men are frequently the perpetrators.”
― Talia Hibbert, Act Your Age, Eve Brown

“Are you sure you didn’t come here to kill me?"
"Quite sure."
"But you’d be so good at it. You half-murder me on a regular basis completely by accident.”
― Talia Hibbert, Act Your Age, Eve Brown

“Look,” he said, the word a rasp. “There are many ways to fail—” “Trust me, I’m aware.” “And very few of them are actually controllable. Life has too many moving parts.” He managed to sound resentful of the very nature of human existence, which Eve found impressive despite herself. “So when it comes to this job, and failing, or succeeding, there’s really only one thing you can promise me. And,” he added sharply, “you will promise.” “What?” His response couldn’t be more surprising if he’d delivered it while butt naked and standing on his head. “Try for me, Eve. That’s all. Just try.”
― Talia Hibbert, Act Your Age, Eve Brown

“And most of all, he needed someone who would stay. Someone just like him.”
― Talia Hibbert, Act Your Age, Eve Brown

“These days, Eve felt like someone who kept going, and she liked that someone, so she didn’t care quite as much if everyone else liked her, too.”
― Talia Hibbert, Act Your Age, Eve Brown

“running away from everything because she wasn’t strong enough to cope with the pressure.”
― Talia Hibbert, Act Your Age, Eve Brown

“Imperfection is inevitable. That's life. But it doesn't sound to me like you've failed at all. 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

“Jacob set his jaw. He didn’t appreciate Spock comments. He’d received a lot of them over his lifetime, and he knew exactly what they were supposed to imply, and they made him want to throttle people before sitting them down for a long and detailed chat on why the world would be a much better place if they stopped congratulating themselves on being normal and started to accept that there were countless different normals, and Jacob’s kind was just as fine as everyone else’s.”
― Talia Hibbert, Act Your Age, Eve Brown