Top 300 Tessa Bailey Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “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

52. “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

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. “I’m far from immune to you.”

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

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

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

— Tessa Bailey

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

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

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62. “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.”

— Tessa Bailey

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

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

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

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

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67. “Prayer isn’t an excuse to sin.”

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68. “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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69. “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

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

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

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72. “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.”

— Tessa Bailey

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

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

— Tessa Bailey

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

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76. “You brought the colour in. You brought me to life when I didn’t even realize I’d stopped breathing. Now I can’t get enough air. It’s everywhere because of you. Be my air. Let me be yours.”

— Tessa Bailey

77. “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. Maybe one or both no longer wants to give their significant other the satisfaction of showing their amusement, so the other person stops trying. And the laughter dies.”

— Tessa Bailey

78. “Terrible things happen sometimes, but you can’t avoid the high of happiness or joy, because you’re too afraid of falling from a great height.”

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79. “Belong to me, Story. Even if it’s just for a little while.”

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

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81. “Fox, listen to me. I don’t care how many different beds you’ve been in. I know you belong in mine.”

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82. “Why do women believe they need an occasion to dress up? Dress up for life, goddammit!”

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

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

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86. “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.”

— Tessa Bailey

87. “What happens to impatient girls who try to tell their man what to do in bed?” She stifled a sob of pleasure. “They have to wait longer.”

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88. “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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89. “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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90. “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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91. “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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92. “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.”

— Tessa Bailey

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

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95. “Who do you think you are?” His gaze dropped to her lips. “I’m the guy who’s going to kiss you tonight.”

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96. “Her soul was made of musical notes.”

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97. “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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98. “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

99. “Don’t go sniffing around the older one. Piper,” Brendan muttered. “And don’t ask me to explain why, either.”

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100. “Everyone has a deck of cards for each person they love. You’ve got your regret cards, your good memory cards, bad memory cards. When one of your people dies, the deck of cards gets thrown up into the air and the cards scatter everywhere. Wakes and funerals are about putting them into a new order. You have to.”

— Tessa Bailey