Top 300 Tessa Bailey Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “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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152. “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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153. “This girl. He’d be keeping her. There was no way around it.”

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154. “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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155. “He knew she’d seen. And there was some silent communication between them, but she didn’t understand the language. Had never spoken it or been around a man who could convey so much without saying a single word.”

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

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157. “The innocent memory of Georgie lying on his bed and mumbling that she needed Dale took on a whole new meaning.”

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

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159. “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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160. “Unlock the door or I’ll call a locksmith. You’re going to be comfortable in my home, goddammit.” Her mouth wobbles and she breaks into a laugh. “What is this? Aggressive southerning?”

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161. “The possibility that he’d shown up to see her, help her, without anything in return, made her comfortable in her own skin – ironically, without any of her usual beautifying trappings.”

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162. “I lean in and rub my nose on his throat. “Sweat.” His deep chuckle makes me shiver. “Better work on that.” “No.” I let him peel my dress off over my head. “I like it.”

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163. “It’s weird. When you’re younger, you think you know everything. Then you get older and live in constant awareness of how little you actually know and understand.”

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164. “Trying to figure out what to do when no one is watching. And wondering if maybe that’s the stuff that actually matters.”

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165. “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.”

— Tessa Bailey

166. “If you need servicing while we’re stuck in this fancy-ass hotel for a week, I’m going to be the one to do it. No one else. Not Golden Boy. Not even your right hand.”

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167. “Not everyone is fertile ground for fixing.”

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168. “Maybe it was the way she only reached his shoulder that sent protectiveness surging up to his jugular, while somehow – at the very same time – he wanted to seek refuge in her.”

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169. “When I saw you on the side of the road, Rita, I saw my wife, I knew.”

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170. “Are we all constantly fighting that change to something new and unfamiliar? Is that why, no matter what we do in our personal or professional lives, somehow it’s never done with full confidence? There’s always the fear of being wrong. Or maybe we’re afraid to be right and make progress, because that means change. And moving forward is hard, like you said.”

— Tessa Bailey

171. “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.”

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

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

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174. “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.”

— Tessa Bailey

175. “I’ve never even had you, and your body haunts mine.”

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176. “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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177. “People shine at different times.”

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178. “I know they don’t require a picture to keep your account active. This was about making you smile, not me,” His gaze fell to her mouth, taking its time finding her eyes again. “Well worth it.”

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

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181. “It was the beginning of her own classic love story. And now the credits were rolling.”

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

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184. “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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185. “Scoot forward,” he asked in a gravelly voice. “Just a little. I promise I’ll suck them so good for you. So good.”

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186. “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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187. “All Piper could do was stare at the spot he’d just vacated. Goose bumps. He’d given her goose bumps.”

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

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190. “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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191. “I do have a super strength and it involves overthinking everything to death.”

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192. “She plucked out a Splenda and one of the non-dairy creamers, doctoring the coffee. When she glanced up at Brendan, he was following her actions closely, a line between his brows. Memorizing how she took her coffee? No way.”

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193. “I’ve sort of made young adult literature my specialty.” “Why?” She shrugged. “I lived inside of those books growing up. I want to take care of them, the way they took care of me.”

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194. “But knowing he could help, knowing he could do something to potentially make her happy? That was like holding the keys to a kingdom.”

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195. “I’d say the one thing you can expect in life are thwarted plans,” said Lorna. “Fate keeps its own schedule. But sometimes fate drops a present in our lap, and we realize that if everything we’d arranged ourselves had gone according to plan, the gift from fate never would have arrived.”

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196. “I’ve met her twice in my life. This time, I was smart enough to fall in love with her.”

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197. “Keep your distance from Burger Guys,” Myles draws out, finally. “They’re suspects, too.”

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198. “I didn’t say I couldn’t touch.” She gripped the collar of his shirt and dragged him forward, bringing their mouths an inch apart. “Just you.” A muscle ticked in his jaw. “I’ll make you beg for my goddamn hands on you.”

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199. “You don’t miss her. He examined the churning in his chest. Well, that hadn’t worked.”

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200. “How many grilled cheeses should I make you?” Evie asks me then, totally nonchalant. “Three or four?” That seals it. I’m marrying her, come hell or high water.”

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