Top 250 Tessa Bailey Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “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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202. “B-Brendan.” Her chest ached almost too much to speak. “When I was falling in love with you, I was falling in love with Westport at the same time. That is my home. Our home. And I don’t want to be anywhere else. I knew it as soon as I got here tonight. Nothing was right. Nothing was right without you.”

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203. “But you can’t take the bad lessons you learned and apply them to every good thing that comes your way. Because there’s nothing about what we have. It’s really, really good. You’re wonderful, and I love you. Okay, you stupid idiot? So when you’ve done some thinking and pulled your head out of your stubborn ass, come and find me. You’re worth the wait.”

— Tessa Bailey

204. “He’d tasted her unbelievable mouth yesterday evening, and his pride demanded only the best on her tongue.”

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205. “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.”

— Tessa Bailey

206. “What about what I could love?” she murmurs haltingly against my mouth, her eyes squeezed shut. “What about who I could love so easily?”

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207. “Really, his question had been more of a mission statement, of which she was the mission.”

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208. “I had it bad for you.”

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209. “But he won’t find my letter that way.” “You’ll have to tell him in person.”

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210. “Maybe she should try to put her phone down more often. Or at least take in the real moments when she could.”

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211. “Oh, this wasn’t good. She didn’t even know which part of her was in command. Her head, her heart, her lady business. Or maybe they all were, three bitches hitting the switches of her control panel.”

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

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213. “This isn’t summer camp.” Those hands clenched. Unclenched. “If you want to kiss me, you’ll get everything. I’m not going to hold back.”

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

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215. “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

216. “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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217. “You see, there are three factors one must consider when choosing a snack from a vending machine. Substance, for one. It needs to hold you over until real food is available. Freshness, which your cereal bar is sorely lacking. And finally” – his eyes dropped to her mouth – “taste.”

— Tessa Bailey

218. “Yes. This was it. It had to be. He was setting her free of this prison she’d been locked in for weeks. If she helped him, he would release his hold on her. This was the solution. Finally. Right?”

— Tessa Bailey

219. “Nothing in my life has felt as amazing as you, either. Nothing.”

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220. “This girl. He’d be keeping her. There was no way around it.”

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221. “You could take me to Mass every day for the rest of my life and I’d still be the kind of guy who would finger you in the back row.”

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222. “Paula,” Eleanor scolded through the barrier. “We’re in a church.” “The good Lord already knows my thoughts.”

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223. “I want you. However you are, whatever you are, I want you.”

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224. “Connor didn’t look at her as if she were an exhibit at the zoo. A strange and exotic bird. No, he looked as if he wanted to climb into the exhibit with her, find out how to adapt. Erin felt a sudden dose of yearning.”

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225. “Trying to figure out what to do when no one is watching.”

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226. “It’s no big deal,” he said quickly, backing up to lean sideways against the doorjamb. Crossing his arms. Definitely not thinking about how easy it would be to prowl over her on that bed, tease her a little more, run his fingertips along that section of skin between her hip bones and waist, flirt until kissing turned into her idea, instead of his intention all along. He knew the dance moves well.”

— Tessa Bailey

227. “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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228. “He’d ridiculed her at the outset. Now he wanted to fight off anything that made her sad.”

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229. “Travis let out a breath he didn’t know he was holding.”

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230. “This butt is courtesy of baked goods and there’s no getting around it – that fact or my ass.”

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231. “You have to admit, you’re a little clumsy.” I gasp. “Only when scary politicians leap out of the shadows.”

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232. “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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233. “But hell if he didn’t spend the whole night thinking about it.”

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234. “He felt her hand curl in the material of his shirt, and it was a glorious goddamn feeling. So if presented with an unknown threat, she would consider him the lesser of the two evils. Right. He could work with that. Some marriages had been founded on less, and he merely wanted to shag her senseless.”

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235. “As I’m writing this, I’m starting to wonder if the longer we fight change in ourselves, the less time we have to live as better people. Or at least more self-aware people. I propose that we both do something that scares us this week.”

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236. “He gave in to just a touch of temptation, tucking a wind-tangled strand of hair behind her ear. Soft. “It means I’ll be around.”

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237. “Our life together is at stake. Did I really think I could just walk away from her? I would sell my soul to the devil to be holding her right now. To hold her forever.”

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238. “With this kiss, I willingly damn myself to a lifetime of suffering.”

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239. “He kissed Abby. Abby. He... kissed Abby. Sensation exploded in his head like an atom bomb, incinerating everything in its path.”

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240. “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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241. “As a seaman, Brendan was all about luck. He knew he could only control so much. He could construct a tight schedule, guide the boat in a direction of his choosing. But it was up to the ocean how and when she gave up her treasures. With.”

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242. “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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243. “Come back here.” “I don’t think I will.” “Half pint.” “I have a name.” “Come back here and tell it to me, then.”

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244. “I’m about as approachable and welcoming as a vampire bat.”

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245. “Maybe the crew would realize they were wrong about him after some time passed. After all, they were just following his lead, treating him like he asked them to.”

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246. “Running for mayor is time consuming. That’s why I’ve never done it.” My laugh sneaks up on me. “Oh, is that why?”

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247. “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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248. “You’re not even worth a midweek leg shave.”

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249. “Miss you?” He grated the incredulous question, dropping his mouth to her temple. “You left me without a soul. I can barely remember the days since you left. They passed without me feeling a single thing. Because you are feeling for me. You’re the only thing that keeps me from being numb. Twice in my life you’ve turned me back into a living, breathing man, and missing you... missing you, Peggy, doesn’t even begin to cover it. You revive me.”

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250. “Facts are facts. She’s cute as a button.”

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