Top 250 Tessa Bailey Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I love you, too. I love you, too. I want to stay right here with you, I don’t want to leave.”

— Tessa Bailey

2. “Don’t worry.” He granted her two more quick thrusts, then moved his wet fingers to the tight bundle of nerves, pressing tight and holding. “You’re going to be full of me later. For now, just let me rub your sweet little clit.”

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3. “Don’t trade emotional currency with strangers. You will never get a refund.”

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4. “A wise woman once told me it’s not my job to teach people to be happy.”

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5. “I need to get my lips around your clit. I’m going to suck that little bud until you pass out. You’ve been keeping her from me, but time’s up, sweetheart. She’s mine.”

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6. “He continued to lap at her until her thighs squeezed his head. Until her whimpered words stopped making sense. Then, only then, did he relent, gently stabbing her clitoris with his tongue until she screamed, only to lick it soothingly, murmuring his praise, apologies, filthy words against her damp flesh.”

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7. “Do you feel that, baby? That’s your man moving inside you.”

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8. “I can be in a room full of people that I know and still not feel like I belong.”

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9. “Here’s what I want to say, girl. Having to chase you only makes me want to pin you down.”

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10. “You can be as high maintenance as you want, honey. But I’m the only one who does the maintenance.”

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11. “You make me feel like I’m in the exact right place.”

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12. “I’ll love you until my heart gives out. I’ll be your man for a thousand years. Longer if I’m allowed.”

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13. “I like this rule until it applies to me.” “That is the very hallmark of being a man.” He’s very still for a moment. “My God, that’s eye-opening.”

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14. “It’s inevitable, Willa. We are inevitable. When you stop fooling yourself, come find me.”

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15. “If you never left again, I would still spend the rest of my life missing you.”

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16. “We’re not about cutting people out of our lives. We’re about refusing to accept anything less than what we deserve. About realizing that we’re all important here despite mistakes or bad relationships or lackluster careers.”

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17. “You won’t let me touch you, Erin? You sure as hell better ride me rough for the both of us.” He gave an upward thrust of his hips. “My cock is big and angry because you made it that way. That makes it your responsibility. Move.”

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18. “Women are protective. Nurturing. A boat is given the name of a woman in the hopes that she’ll protect the crew. And hopefully put a good word in the other important woman in our lives, the ocean.”

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19. “Haphephobia. The fear of being touched that often presented itself after a traumatic event. Touch from another human being often felt like fire burning the sufferer’s skin.”

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20. “Vaginal orgasms were ruining her for regular life.”

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21. “A loved one’s vote of confidence goes a long way. It can lead to discovering more of your own.”

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22. “Bumpier journeys lead to better destinations. You. Me. We’re the best destination of all.”

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23. “I’ve literally reached the end of internet porn. Spoiler, the only prize you win is shame.”

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24. “That sparkle was positivity and life and promise of better things, and she always, always had it, glowing within the blue of her irises, lighting up the room.”

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25. “Next time you need me, wake me up.” He bit her earlobe, tugged. “You don’t spend a minute unsatisfied in my bed. Understand?”

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26. “Decades. A lifetime. I’m in.”

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27. “When she straightened and her bare back landed flush against his heaving chest, she could only compare it to the breathless moment on a Ferris wheel when you hit the top the first time and the world spreads out in front of you, huge and wondrous.”

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28. “If I ever start to lose strength again, I’ll just think of how it felt to lose the girl who loved me, even when I couldn’t love myself.”

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29. “If I sit across from you much longer, I’m going to pull you astride my lap and kiss your superbly formed mouth until you soak straight through my pants.” He pulled back just enough to watch redness suffuse her cheeks. “It wouldn’t take long, sweetheart. I can do amazing things with my tongue.”

— Tessa Bailey

30. “I’m going to put you on your knees, Ruby. You’re going to hate how much you love it.”

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31. “Right now, I – I just want – ” “A boyfriend?” His chest lifted and fell. “If that’s enough for now, let me be yours.”

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32. “Only that I liked him holding me down, hand on my throat, but it woke me up to such a degree that I need his eye contact and softer contact to come back down.”

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33. “But the Bering Sea chose that moment to remind him exactly who was in control.”

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34. “We don’t need a safe word. You just say stop.” The urge to comfort her wins before I have the chance to arrange a battle. Tugging her close by the front of her tank top, I keep pulling until my lips meet her forehead and I kiss her there. “I know what stop means, sweetheart.”

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35. “There was never going to be a life away from you, because, Jesus, that’s no life at all. You, Hannah. Are my life. I love you and I’m coming home, so please, babe. Please. Will you just wait for me? I’m sorry.”

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36. “Everything was insane. She was forcing him to consider light and shadows, when he’d only ever dealt in black and white. And she was the light. Shining bright enough to flay him.”

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37. “Your daughter will always have a place in my heart. But Piper owns that heart. She came here and robbed me blind of it.”

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38. “She was Eve in the Garden of Eden, and she’d just taken a bite from the apple.”

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39. “Look, woman,” I pant, rubbing our damp lips together. “I can’t help it if you taste better than oxygen.”

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40. “The kind of cry a woman gave when a man conquered her and she realized she loved it.”

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41. “Honest to God, Story. The bullet didn’t kill me, but the way you make me feel might.”

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42. “The longer it takes me to get between your thighs, the rougher I’m going to be when I finally get there.”

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43. “I’m going to dance until I get blisters.” “Ouch, but yes. Who says fun can’t be bloody?”

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44. “I’d take a bullet between the eyes before I raised a hand to you, Taylor. The fact that you have to spend a second in pain makes me want to die. Are those the kind of words you’re talking about? Because they’re the only ones I’ve got.”

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45. “Can you be mad at me while I kiss you, baby? It’s all I’ve wanted to do for the last two weeks.”

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46. “I just watched you bend over a pool table in those ridiculously tight jeans. Over. And over. You think I could stop at kissing?”

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47. “I’m far from immune to you.”

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48. “Like a summer day showing up after a hundred years of winter.”

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49. “I’m going to take myself somewhere my intellect is appreciated. Xbox Live. Goodnight, ladies.”

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50. “You can’t live life worrying about what other people will think.”

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