Top 250 Tessa Bailey Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “His confessions made it easy to confess her own sins.”

— Tessa Bailey

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

— Tessa Bailey

53. “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.”

— Tessa Bailey

54. “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.”

— Tessa Bailey

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

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57. “God must have been busy answering someone else’s prayers.”

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58. “I don’t care what you call yourself. Titles are irrelevant to what I want with you.”

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59. “Don’t argue with me about this.” She scoffed. “Oh, this isn’t an argument. That implies you might win.”

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

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61. “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.”

— Tessa Bailey

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

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63. “You can’t fix me with a few magic words.” “Willa.” He shakes his head. “There’s nothing to fix.” When.”

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64. “It’ll never be enough. I can’t touch all of you at once and it drives me crazy. I need everything, always. More, more.”

— Tessa Bailey

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

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66. “We build resentments toward our loved ones. Sometimes we’re not even aware of them. But they grow so strong, they prevent us from remembering what we loved about our partners in the first place.”

— Tessa Bailey

67. “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.”

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68. “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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69. “The man took a tragedy and used it to give himself purpose. The man is magnificent.”

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70. “You have to fight for what you deserve. What you want is no more or less important than what anyone else wants.”

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71. “She’d come to the hospital. In his clothes. Did she realize tears were spilling down her cheeks and she was shaking, head to toe? No, she didn’t. Based on her flirty shoulder shrugs and attempts to wink, she thought she was playing it cool, and it made his chest burn. This girl. He’d be keeping her. There was no way around it.”

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72. “You can’t live life worrying about what people will think. You’ll wake up one day, look at a calendar, and count the days you could have spent being happy. With her. And no one else, especially the ones wagging their tongues, are going to be there to console you.”

— Tessa Bailey

73. “Do you think there is a female fisherman hiding in this pie, Brendan?”

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

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76. “You’re incredible with or without me,” he rasped beside her ear. “I can do my best to learn to live with both if it means I get to keep your heart.”

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

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79. “Finished with his perusal, he asks, “Are you always this difficult?” “Actually, I’m usually much worse.”

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80. “I have the heartache version of a man cold.”

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

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82. “Hayden felt ready to snap. She felt out of control. She needed something. Unfortunately, she had a feeling that something was the six-foot-five hormone-whisperer walking beside her, whistling the Happy Days theme song.”

— Tessa Bailey

83. “I think I said, ‘If you loved me, you’d understand what I’m going through.’” “And I said, ‘I do love you, Rosie. That’s why I want to go through it with you.”

— Tessa Bailey

84. “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.”

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85. “You’re still not going to yell at her anymore. If she’s upset, I’m upset. I don’t think you want that.”

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86. “How soft she’d be beneath him, how high maintenance she’d probably be in the sack and how he’d deliver. Again and again, until she wrecked his back with her fingernails.”

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87. “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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88. “And that’s when I realize the red panties are gone. Myles’s business card sits in their place.”

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89. “There is relaxation and acceptance in laughter. It’s the anti-resentment drug.”

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90. “The cops still have a hard-on for the father.” “I’ve seen that porn.”

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

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92. “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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93. “Every man I date either cheats or can’t commit. Or is already way too committed to his mother. Or PlayStation.”

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94. “The world would be a pretty cold place without the criers.”

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95. “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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96. “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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97. “Get your head out of the gutter, baby. You Catholic girls and your filthy minds.”

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

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99. “In a hardware store, a man only had to drop the barest hint about his project and dudes started pouring out of the aisles touting their best advice. This was a ritual that saved men from having to actually ask for help while also making other men feel useful.”

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100. “And when her face transformed with pure joy and she waved enthusiastically, Brendan knew he loved her.”

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