Top 300 Tessa Bailey Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “Your daughter will always have a place in my heart. But Piper owns that heart. She came here and robbed me blind of it.”

— Tessa Bailey

52. “She was hopelessly, irrevocably in love with this man.”

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53. “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.”

— Tessa Bailey

54. “Prayer isn’t an excuse to sin.”

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

— Tessa Bailey

56. “It’s so good because I love you Rita. It’s good because you love me back. No matter the time it took. When it’s right, it’s right.”

— Tessa Bailey

57. “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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58. “If you’re laughing with them, they can’t laugh at you, right?”

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

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60. “I’m going to love teaching you some patience, sweetheart. You don’t know what dying means yet. You’ll know when you’ve come for my mouth so many times, you’d sell your soul to be filled.”

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61. “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.”

— Tessa Bailey

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

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63. “Hallie, listen to me. You don’t make messes. You follow your heart, and your heart is so beautiful, I can’t believe it was mine.” He seemed to brace himself. “Put me out of my misery and tell me it’s still mine. Please.”

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64. “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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65. “He’s like if someone drew eyes on a turnip.”

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66. “I could tell by the way you looked at her, she was something real special.” “How did I look at her?” He was afraid to find out. “Ah, son. Like a summer day showing up after a hundred years of winter.”

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

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68. “I’ve loved you up one side of forever. Now I’m going to love you back down the other.”

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

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70. “Christ. My cock is thickening faster than whisked gravy over a high heat.”

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71. “He didn’t have words to describe her. She glowed. She’d somehow fallen out of the sky and landed in this unworthy place, with an unworthy man.”

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72. “You like that, beautiful girl?” When she whimpered, he leaned over and spoke directly into her ear. “Good. That was for the hard-on I’ll be walking around with tonight. And you’ll goddamn wear the imprint of my hand on your ass for it.”

— Tessa Bailey

73. “Are you looking for something illegal so you’ll have an excuse to handcuff me, Derek?”

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74. “I’m starting to think animal attraction, paired with actual love and respect, only exists in scripted movies and romance novels.”

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75. “Hannah had a playlist consisting of 308 love songs and not one of them could describe this moment accurately. Not even close.”

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76. “I want to feel you forgive me. I want to taste it in your mouth.”

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77. “An actual shiver blew through him thinking of Hannah on the deck, fifteen-story waves building in the background. “If you hear me screaming in the middle of the night, you’re to blame for my nightmares.” “I can just be in charge of the music on the boat.” “No.” “You got me feeling all romantic about the ocean. It’s your fault.”

— Tessa Bailey

78. “You want that pretty little mouth kissed? Now say it again without stuttering, baby.”

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79. “Do you talk to every girl like this?” “I don’t even turn on the lights for other girls.”

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80. “The quiet got too loud once you’d come and gone.”

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

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82. “Hannah stepped into the house and immediately had to check her urge to find the person in charge of the playlist. If she let herself, she’d sit in the corner all night searching for the perfect next song.”

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83. “Laugh with them, instead of being laughed at. Make the joke, instead of being the joke. And above all else, don’t let them see how much it all bothered him.”

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84. “You’ve got innocent eyes, but a hot, greedy body. God help me, I would never stop banging you.”

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85. “Wow. A vaginal orgasm and a psychological breakthrough in the same day. You must be tapped.”

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86. “Her sister was a goddess with a pure, romantic spirit, and it was about time people flocked to her.”

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

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88. “Everyone’s low expectations of her were beginning to wear kind of thin, though. One look at her and this prick had become as dismissive of her abilities as her stepfather and her ex-boyfriend. What was it about her that courted such harsh judgment?”

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89. “Being hurt only makes me need you more.”

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90. “His confessions made it easy to confess her own sins.”

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91. “Mmm-hmm. If I were a Magic 8 Ball, my answer would read ‘outlook not so good.’” “Why don’t you let me shake you up a little? See if we can’t get a different answer.” “My sources say no.”

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92. “If someone put a single scratch on your skin, I would go utterly mad, Ginny, and yet I burn to sink my teeth into your neck every second of the day. I don’t know how to uncomplicate that for you.”

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93. “How do people live their lives feeling like this, day in and day out? Like your next breath depends on another person’s happiness? She’s torture and heaven all wrapped up in one forbidden package.”

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94. “Listen to me, baby. From the time we walk in the door to my apartment, you will have less than a minute before I put my cock inside you. No foreplay. No kissing. There won’t be any time, because you’ve got me strung so damn tight I can barely think straight. I need you to keep yourself wet for me on the ride home. Starting now.” Reaching across the car’s console, he yanked her skirt high on her thighs. “Put your hand between your legs, Ginger.”

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95. “If this woman tacked the word “please” onto any request, he would find a way to fulfill it. Build me a palace, please. How many floors, baby?”

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96. “This won’t be a story we tell the grandkids. This one is just for us.”

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97. “When she died, I kept the ring on, kept my vows, to keep him healed as much as possible. Then you showed up, Piper. Then you. And it felt wrong having ever given those vows to anyone else.”

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98. “Baby, sometimes what I’m thinking doesn’t translate into words. You’re going to have to badger them out of me until I get better at this, okay?”

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99. “I had it bad for you. If the convention didn’t make it obvious, I thought for sure the Fleetwood Mac album would do it. I’ve got it so bad for you, Hannah. Really, really bad. I tried to keep you out of here. But you won’t go. You’re never going to go. You just won’t.”

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100. “I’m going to take a shower, all right?” He ran his fingers along the curve of her shoulder, pressing a thumb to the side of her neck and massaging. “I’m going to feed you before I introduce you to God.”

— Tessa Bailey