Top 250 Tessa Bailey Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Her sister was a goddess with a pure, romantic spirit, and it was about time people flocked to her.”

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

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53. “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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54. “Prayer isn’t an excuse to sin.”

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

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56. “As for herself, she’d lacked any type of shield or voice of reason. Her life had been molded into a shape and left to harden in the sun. It was too late for her to change now.”

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57. “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.”

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58. “I’m warning you right now, it’s going to be a rough ride. If you’re not ready for it yet, I’ll put you on your knees for a while to take my edge off.”

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59. “I’ll make sure she knows every day that she’s the air I breathe. That’s a promise.”

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

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

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

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63. “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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64. “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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65. “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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66. “And that’s when I realize the red panties are gone. Myles’s business card sits in their place.”

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

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

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

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

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73. “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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74. “Her soul was made of musical notes.”

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

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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.”

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

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

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

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80. “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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81. “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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82. “He’s like eating a spicy breakfast burrito after years of having oatmeal for breakfast.”

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

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

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

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86. “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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87. “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.”

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88. “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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89. “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.”

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90. “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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91. “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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92. “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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93. “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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94. “I’ve loved you up one side of forever. Now I’m going to love you back down the other.”

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95. “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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96. “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.”

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97. “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.”

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98. “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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99. “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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100. “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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