Top 300 Tessa Bailey Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “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

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

— Tessa Bailey

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

— Tessa Bailey

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

— Tessa Bailey

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

— Tessa Bailey

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

— Tessa Bailey

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

— Tessa Bailey

208. “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

209. “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

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

— Tessa Bailey

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

— Tessa Bailey

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

— Tessa Bailey

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

— Tessa Bailey

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

— Tessa Bailey

215. “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

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

— Tessa Bailey

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

— Tessa Bailey

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

— Tessa Bailey

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

— Tessa Bailey

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

— Tessa Bailey

221. “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

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

— Tessa Bailey

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

— Tessa Bailey

224. “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

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

— Tessa Bailey

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

— Tessa Bailey

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

— Tessa Bailey

228. “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

229. “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

230. “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

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

— Tessa Bailey

232. “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

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

— Tessa Bailey

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

— Tessa Bailey

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

— Tessa Bailey

236. “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

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

— Tessa Bailey

238. “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

239. “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

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

— Tessa Bailey

241. “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.”

— Tessa Bailey

242. “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

243. “We can fix this by laughing at ourselves. If we stop taking ourselves so seriously for a moment, our partner can do the same. There is relaxation and acceptance in laughter. It’s the anti-resentment drug.”

— Tessa Bailey

244. “The kind of person who wants to be better and sees their own faults is someone I want to spend time with.”

— Tessa Bailey

245. “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

246. “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

247. “I almost had those panties off, Josephine. Frankly, I don’t care if it’s the pope.”

— Tessa Bailey

248. “Can I rub it here, baby?” Brendan rasped the question, his bare chest heaving, a fine sheen of sweat on those work-honed muscles. “Just want to rub it where I made you come.”

— Tessa Bailey

249. “She wanted, craved Jonah. He’d grabbed hold of her libido and shaken it like a snow globe.”

— Tessa Bailey

250. “She rode on a rainbow unicorn over the Milky Way and waved at an astronaut.”

— Tessa Bailey