Top 250 Tessa Bailey Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “Hayden’s ovaries stood up and delivered a thundering ovation.”

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202. “I love you so badly I could get lost in it and never find my way back out.”

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203. “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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204. “Terrible things happen sometimes, but you can’t avoid the high of happiness or joy, because you’re too afraid of falling from a great height.”

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205. “Thinking about picking out side plates with Stella has sent me into the throes of my best orgasm in recent memory, my knees nearly buckling from the monumental rush...”

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

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207. “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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208. “I know I’m not who you’d pick for her. I’m probably not even who she would pick, but I’ll change that. I’ll give her everything.”

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209. “Given your ability to keep your sense of humor under stress, either a war general or a comedian.”

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210. “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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211. “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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212. “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.”

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

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215. “He pointed at Abby’s electric-blue pumps. “Women wear these evil creations around to confuse us. Sure, they make a girl’s legs look good, but that’s the black magic, my friends. They want us to feel their pain and not understand why.”

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216. “Three men had approached her at a bar, one asking if he could buy her a drink. Her reply had been, “Sure. Petrol, please. Unleaded.”

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217. “He turned and took a beer out of the fridge, uncapping it with his teeth.”

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218. “One dog started woofing and his buddies joined in solidarity, announcing the entrance of their queen.”

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219. “I want to be the man who steals it. All day, every day. Forever. Stay with me right here.”

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220. “Because you’re my wife. You’re supposed to believe I’ve existed only for you since day one.”

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221. “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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222. “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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223. “Everyone had weaknesses. They just came in different sizes and shapes.”

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224. “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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225. “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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226. “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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227. “Really, his question had been more of a mission statement, of which she was the mission.”

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228. “I had it bad for you.”

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

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

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231. “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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232. “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

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

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

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237. “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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238. “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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239. “Paula,” Eleanor scolded through the barrier. “We’re in a church.” “The good Lord already knows my thoughts.”

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240. “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?”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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250. “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