Top 250 Tessa Bailey Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “The longer it takes me to get between your thighs, the rougher I’m going to be when I finally get there.”

— Tessa Bailey

52. “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.”

— Tessa Bailey

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

— Tessa Bailey

54. “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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55. “I’m far from immune to you.”

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

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

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58. “Don’t send me back out into the darkness, sunshine. Please.”

— Tessa Bailey

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

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

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

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62. “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.”

— Tessa Bailey

63. “Prayer isn’t an excuse to sin.”

— Tessa Bailey

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

— Tessa Bailey

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

— Tessa Bailey

66. “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

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

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68. “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

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

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70. “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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71. “What are you looking at?” “Just checking to see if your milkshake brought all the boys to the yard.”

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72. “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

73. “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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74. “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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75. “I’m starting to think animal attraction, paired with actual love and respect, only exists in scripted movies and romance novels.”

— Tessa Bailey

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

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

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

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

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81. “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

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

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83. “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

84. “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.”

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

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

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87. “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.”

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

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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. “You ruined the sky for me today, Rita,” he said gruffly. “It’s flat-out mediocre without you up against it. I reckon it always will be now.”

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92. “That’s the first time you’ve said my name.” He rubbed their lips together. “Whisper it again in my ear, then I’ll go.”

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93. “He’s like eating a spicy breakfast burrito after years of having oatmeal for breakfast.”

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

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95. “Is this like a strange kink? Instead of flashing people, you just go around accosting people with bizarre tales?”

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

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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. “How did I survive this long without you? I love you, Eliza. It’s all I can feel. I’m made of it. If you’ve got even an ounce of this for me, I’m so damn grateful.”

— Tessa Bailey

99. “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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100. “I tried to tell myself wanting you, keeping you, was selfish. Maybe it is.” His lips brushed her forehead. “But I’m lost here, Lucy. I’m lost without everything you’ve got.”

— Tessa Bailey