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

— Tessa Bailey

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

— Tessa Bailey

204. “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.”

— Tessa Bailey

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

— Tessa Bailey

206. “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.”

— Tessa Bailey

207. “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.”

— Tessa Bailey

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.”

— Tessa Bailey

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

— Tessa Bailey

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

— Tessa Bailey

211. “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.”

— Tessa Bailey

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

— Tessa Bailey

213. “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

214. “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.”

— Tessa Bailey

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

— Tessa Bailey

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

— Tessa Bailey

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

— Tessa Bailey

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

— Tessa Bailey

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

— Tessa Bailey

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

— Tessa Bailey

221. “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.”

— Tessa Bailey

222. “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.”

— Tessa Bailey

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

— Tessa Bailey

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

— Tessa Bailey

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

— Tessa Bailey

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

— Tessa Bailey

227. “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

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

— Tessa Bailey

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

— Tessa Bailey

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

— Tessa Bailey

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

— Tessa Bailey

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

— Tessa Bailey

233. “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

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

— Tessa Bailey

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

— Tessa Bailey

236. “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

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

— Tessa Bailey

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

— Tessa Bailey

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

— Tessa Bailey

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

— Tessa Bailey

241. “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...”

— Tessa Bailey

242. “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

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

— Tessa Bailey

244. “Acknowledgement. Apparently that was all it took to want to forgive someone. Just to have them acknowledge that you were hurt, out loud.”

— Tessa Bailey

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

— Tessa Bailey

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

— Tessa Bailey

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

— Tessa Bailey

248. “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

249. “As her idol Dolly Parton once said, “If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.”

— Tessa Bailey

250. “Love doesn’t come and go that easily, Beat. You need to believe you can lean on it, even when you have to lean really hard.”

— Tessa Bailey