Top 250 Tessa Bailey Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “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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202. “Everyone had weaknesses. They just came in different sizes and shapes.”

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203. “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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204. “I had it bad for you.”

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205. “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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206. “He wouldn’t stay so firmly rooted in his practices and routines that a good thing would come along and slip away.”

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

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208. “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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209. “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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210. “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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211. “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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212. “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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213. “I love you so badly I could get lost in it and never find my way back out.”

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214. “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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215. “His existence is a threat to my sanity.”

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216. “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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217. “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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218. “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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219. “Maybe, like the ocean, he could evolve.”

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220. “Fox, listen to me. I don’t care how many different beds you’ve been in. I know you belong in mine.”

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221. “What does reality have to offer me? Guide me, O wise one.”

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

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

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224. “All Piper could do was stare at the spot he’d just vacated. Goose bumps. He’d given her goose bumps.”

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

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

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229. “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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230. “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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231. “He turned and took a beer out of the fridge, uncapping it with his teeth.”

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

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

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

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

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237. “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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238. “I don’t know if it’s possible to fall in love with a man in four days. But if it is, I think I’ve just soundly accomplished that feat with Myles Sumner.”

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

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

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

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243. “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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244. “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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245. “You have to admit, you’re a little clumsy.” I gasp. “Only when scary politicians leap out of the shadows.”

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

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247. “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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248. “Piper, I don’t just go putting my arms around girls.” She paused in the doorway. Looked back. “What does that mean?” 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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249. “I would make a new bribe every day if I thought staying her would make you happy.”

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

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