Top 250 Tessa Bailey Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “This girl. I want to run away with her. Elope. Go on safaris. Sink down to the bottom of the ocean holding her hand.”

— Tessa Bailey

202. “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

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

— Tessa Bailey

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

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205. “I had it bad for you.”

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

— Tessa Bailey

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

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208. “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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209. “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

210. “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.”

— Tessa Bailey

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

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212. “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

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

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214. “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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215. “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.”

— Tessa Bailey

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

— Tessa Bailey

217. “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

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

— Tessa Bailey

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

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

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

— Tessa Bailey

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. “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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228. “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.”

— Tessa Bailey

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

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230. “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.”

— Tessa Bailey

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.”

— Tessa Bailey

233. “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.”

— Tessa Bailey

234. “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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235. “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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236. “I’m about as approachable and welcoming as a vampire bat.”

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237. “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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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.”

— Tessa Bailey

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.”

— Tessa Bailey

242. “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?”

— Tessa Bailey

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

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244. “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.”

— Tessa Bailey

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

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246. “But she looked into his eyes now and heard his words echo back from the deck of the Della Ray. You have perseverance, character, and a huge heart. And she chose to believe him. She chose to believe in herself.”

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247. “How do people live their lives feeling like this, day in and day out? Like your next breath depends on another person’s happiness? She’s torture and heaven all wrapped up in one forbidden package.”

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248. “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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249. “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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250. “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.”

— Tessa Bailey