Top 300 Tessa Bailey Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “I’ve only been here a couple minutes, but it was long enough to recognize first class eye-fuckery.”

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

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153. “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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154. “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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155. “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?”

— Tessa Bailey

156. “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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157. “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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158. “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

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

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161. “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.”

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

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164. “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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165. “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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166. “Piper, the man looks at you like... he’s full of cracks and you’re the glue.”

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167. “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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168. “People shine at different times.”

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169. “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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170. “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

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

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172. “The scene reminded Lita of a Marvel Comics movie where the hero tries to blend in among mortals, but is so obviously everyone’s savior. Her savior. If he would only allow himself to be.”

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

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174. “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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175. “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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176. “Hannah stepped into the house and immediately had to check her urge to find the person in charge of the playlist. If she let herself, she’d sit in the corner all night searching for the perfect next song.”

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

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

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179. “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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180. “She’d wanted to be free, thought it was the only way to be happy, when happiness was belonging to Jonah.”

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181. “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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182. “Home.’ By Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros.” He barely kept his hand from lifting to brush back her hair. “I don’t know that one,” he managed. “I’ll text it to you before I go to sleep. It’s perfect.”

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183. “I had it bad for you.”

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184. “I can’t be expected to make promises under the influence of pasta and wine!”

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185. “Everyone had weaknesses. They just came in different sizes and shapes.”

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186. “She’d been pleasantly surprised to find out the movie starred Mark Wahlberg and Reese Witherspoon and decided the tape probably belonged to Bethany – but around the one-hour mark, the scene happened. The one on the roller coaster when Mark uses his finger on Reese.”

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187. “A balm spread over his heart, even as his need, his urgency, wrenched higher, hotter. “You can wrap me as tight as you want around that little finger, but I won’t play games about what this is. Get me, Piper?”

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188. “The main-character moment?” “Yeah. You know, when you’ve got the perfect mood going, soundtrack to match. And you’re on a rainy road, feeling dramatic. You’re the star of your own movie. You’re Rocky training for the fight. Or Baby learning how to merengue in Dirty Dancing. Or you’re just crying over a lost love.” She turned slightly in the seat. “Everyone does it!”

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189. “But he found himself wondering what it might be like to fill that role for Hallie. In another life, obviously. A full-time giver of Hallie smiles.”

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190. “Once you go hockey boy, you never go back.”

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191. “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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192. “I’m a pandemic-era teacher, dammit. That basically qualifies me for a presidential.”

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193. “Listen to me. I love your sister. I love her so much I can’t wait for tomorrow. To see what she says, what she wears, which laugh she’ll use. She’s not your sister to me. She’s Lucy. She’s the girl who makes me feel human.”

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194. “Right away, I’m hit with a prickle of guilt over this morning’s activities. Not only did I fantasize about her body, I had the nerve to pick out dinnerware without her input.”

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195. “I can’t breathe for loving you and loving you is the only way I can breathe.”

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196. “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.”

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197. “I didn’t know what right felt like until you,” he choked out. “I’m holding on to the good you give me. I’m holding on to you.”

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198. “His existence is a threat to my sanity.”

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199. “What she thought was living life to the fullest had actually been living life for other people to watch. To gawk at. She wouldn’t lie to herself and pretend one month had completely cured her of her deeply rooted yen for attention. For praise. For what she’d once interpreted as love. Now though? She is participating in her life. Not just posing and pretending. The world was so much bigger than her, and she was really seeing it now. She was really looking.”

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200. “She jackknifed on the couch, screaming so loud that it could be heard clear to Orlando. This was it. Her Dateline moment. A robbery gone wrong. Or was it?, questioned Keith Morrison.”

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