Top 250 Tessa Bailey Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “The first time they’d met, in this very pub, he’d hit on her using so little finesse, she’d been forced to ask if he was kidding. Granted, they’d both had a few too many drinks that night, but nothing excused the line, “I’m not drunk, I’m just intoxicated by you.” Nothing.”

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102. “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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103. “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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104. “I’ve loved you up one side of forever. Now I’m going to love you back down the other.”

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105. “I’m a storm of feelings over her. So many that I can barely pick them out of the blurring whirlwind and try to define them. I’m protective of her, proud of her, lustful to the point of pain, adoring and confused.”

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

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

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108. “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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109. “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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110. “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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111. “It was the beginning of her own classic love story. And now the credits were rolling.”

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112. “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.”

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113. “It’s only been one day since I was deep inside here, but it’s been too long.” Unexpectedly, he gave her a rough squeeze through her panties. “I know ways to get it deeper.”

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114. “You get this expression on your face when you listen to music, like you’re trying to climb inside it. Right now, it looks like the door is locked and you can’t get in.”

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115. “There’s a lot we don’t know about each other. For instance, I didn’t know you were afraid of heights.” “What?” Ailish’s brow wrinkled. “I’m not afraid of heights.” “No.” Erin’s nodded at Ailish’s jean shorts. “Your zipper is, though.”

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

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117. “I’ve only been here a couple minutes, but it was long enough to recognize first class eye-fuckery.”

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118. “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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119. “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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120. “The world would be a pretty cold place without the criers.”

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121. “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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122. “I could love you easily, too. God help me, Taylor. I’m not sure how it happened and I don’t know what’s the right thing to do.”

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123. “You were all given a choice,” Derek boomed. “Prison time or my time. One or the other. If you thought I was the lesser of two evils, you were wrong. You each have a skill that landed you in this room and I intend to use those skills to make Chicago safer.”

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124. “Piper, the man looks at you like... he’s full of cracks and you’re the glue.”

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125. “But as Derek watched himself holding Ginger in the mirror over the sink, her smaller, trembling body engulfed by his naked arms and chest, he felt the furthest thing from unaffected. Every sob or shudder that moved through her robbed him of breath. Derek wanted to decimate her sadness and anything causing it. Feeling powerless, he rubbed circles on her back with one hand.”

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126. “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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127. “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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128. “This girl. I want to run away with her. Elope. Go on safaris. Sink down to the bottom of the ocean holding her hand.”

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129. “Russell had a theory that every girl owned one perfect dress that could make men do anything they wanted.”

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130. “I’m going to feed you before I introduce you to God.”

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

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

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133. “Everything is going to be okay now. We found our way back. I’ve got you back and I’m not letting you go ever again.”

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134. “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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135. “It makes choices for you. It demands you obey it, not taking no for an answer. And it’s usually right. It knows you better than you know yourself.”

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136. “I’m strongest when you’re around, but I’m going to get better at using that strength, even when you’re not standing beside me.”

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137. “Hannah was the total opposite. When she decided to commit herself to someone or something, she went in one thousand percent. Loyalty to the people she cared about hummed in her blood. Loyalty made her Hannah.”

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138. “When I bit you, I slid in even deeper.” His lips moved at her neck, over the bite mark. “Made you wet, didn’t it? Bad little beginner.”

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139. “Do you want some proof I can be more than a nice guy, sweetheart?”

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140. “Expecting perfect can only lead to disappointment. Besides, it’s the flaws that give a person character. That’s where the beauty hides.”

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

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

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

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145. “His words made her feel like she was floating. They were pure Brendan in their honesty and depth and gruffness and humility. And they were for her.”

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146. “I’ve slept in your sheets and seen my sweat cooling on your gorgeous skin. I’ve spent myself in your mouth and between your legs.”

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147. “And when she was happy, like she was in that moment, she threw her arms open and ran right toward the main source, letting him sweep her away.”

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148. “Well, Ginger, looks like we finally found the one man unwilling to grovel at your feet.”

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149. “People shine at different times.”

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150. “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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