Top 300 Tessa Bailey Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “What does reality have to offer me? Guide me, O wise one.”

— Tessa Bailey

202. “Don’t dump my stash. I hereby bequeath all manner of pleasure machines to you, my pasty, studious little friend.”

— Tessa Bailey

203. “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.”

— Tessa Bailey

204. “Maybe, like the ocean, he could evolve.”

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

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206. “It’s just that lately I feel a little left behind. Like everyone is checking off the boxes of life, and my pencil is broken. Or I didn’t bring one to class at all.”

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

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

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

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211. “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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212. “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.”

— Tessa Bailey

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

— Tessa Bailey

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

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215. “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.”

— Tessa Bailey

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

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

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

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

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

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222. “If I were the kind of man who apologized for something he said, this may or may not be how I would go about doing it.”

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223. “No one trash talked her golfer... only her.”

— Tessa Bailey

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

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225. “This morning, he’d carved out daylight for her in that stifling basement.”

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226. “Oh, my God. Please say that accent isn’t real.” “Real, I’m afraid.” Unlike your breasts.”

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227. “My love is solid. It doesn’t bend,” he said fervently. “Don’t forget again.”

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228. “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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229. “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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230. “Oh captain, my captain.” The fighter slapped a hand over his heart, punctuating the heavy Brooklyn accent he spoke with. “Try not to endear yourself to me too quickly. We just got here.”

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

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232. “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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233. “Women had to make moves on men these days, or everyone on planet earth would be single.”

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

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236. “I would make a new bribe every day if I thought staying her would make you happy.”

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237. “Time is change. But letting it move you forward is hard.”

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238. “Baby, sometimes what I’m thinking doesn’t translate into words. You’re going to have to badger them out of me until I get better at this, okay?”

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

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

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241. “Kissing Melody was like a welcome home party in a place he’d never be lucky enough to call his home.”

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

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243. “She was going to cry in front of her childhood hero turned mega-crush turned object of her every sexual fantasy. Seriously, Travis was the reason she couldn’t hear “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” without getting horny. Meanwhile if she cried right now, he’d probably lose his boner next time he smelled blueberries. Of course, while all these thoughts raced through her head, she said absolutely nothing, simply stared up at the former Hurricanes shortstop while her eyes ached.”

— Tessa Bailey

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

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

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

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248. “I can’t believe meat looks like brains before it’s been cooked. Does everyone know about this?”

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249. “Owen has to go. There was already a crowd assembled, wanting to be entertained for the night. Why not make it a murder mystery?”

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250. “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.”

— Tessa Bailey