Top 300 Tessa Bailey Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “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.”

— Tessa Bailey

252. “But you can’t take the bad lessons you learned and apply them to every good thing that comes your way. Because there’s nothing about what we have. It’s really, really good. You’re wonderful, and I love you. Okay, you stupid idiot? So when you’ve done some thinking and pulled your head out of your stubborn ass, come and find me. You’re worth the wait.”

— Tessa Bailey

253. “He’d tasted her unbelievable mouth yesterday evening, and his pride demanded only the best on her tongue.”

— Tessa Bailey

254. “Three men had approached her at a bar, one asking if he could buy her a drink. Her reply had been, “Sure. Petrol, please. Unleaded.”

— Tessa Bailey

255. “I want to be the man who steals it. All day, every day. Forever. Stay with me right here.”

— Tessa Bailey

256. “I wonder if I’m who I’m meant to be or if I’m just too distracted to keep evolving.”

— Tessa Bailey

257. “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.”

— Tessa Bailey

258. “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.”

— Tessa Bailey

259. “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

260. “When I walk in the front door after a shift, Lucy, I want your mouth on mine before I even get my jacket off.”

— Tessa Bailey

261. “It’s not always about the next thing you do. Sometimes it’s about what you already did.”

— Tessa Bailey

262. “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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263. “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

264. “I’m obsessed with eating her out. And I’ve never even gotten the opportunity.”

— Tessa Bailey

265. “I love you so badly I could get lost in it and never find my way back out.”

— Tessa Bailey

266. “I’d take a bullet between the eyes before I raised a hand to you, Taylor. The fact that you have to spend a second in pain makes me want to die.”

— Tessa Bailey

267. “We’re going to have to meet twice this week. No way we can cover cock talk and get important things done –.”

— Tessa Bailey

268. “Hayden’s ovaries stood up and delivered a thundering ovation.”

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269. “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.”

— Tessa Bailey

270. “Come back here.” “I don’t think I will.” “Half pint.” “I have a name.” “Come back here and tell it to me, then.”

— Tessa Bailey

271. “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

272. “You need me to be nice? I’ll be the nicest person you ever met. Just to you. Only you. Jesus Christ, you’re so beautiful.”

— Tessa Bailey

273. “Like you said, men need things spelled out in thick red Sharpie.”

— Tessa Bailey

274. “You don’t get locked up somewhere for four years and leave without a few soul scrapes.”

— Tessa Bailey

275. “This man smiles constantly. I hate him.”

— Tessa Bailey

276. “It’s like I always say: A man doesn’t bring a woman to Bingo unless he’s serious about her.”

— Tessa Bailey

277. “Everyone had weaknesses. They just came in different sizes and shapes.”

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278. “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

279. “I had it bad for you.”

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280. “I can’t be expected to make promises under the influence of pasta and wine!”

— Tessa Bailey

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

— Tessa Bailey

282. “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.”

— Tessa Bailey

283. “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.”

— Tessa Bailey

284. “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?”

— Tessa Bailey

285. “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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286. “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.”

— Tessa Bailey

287. “Once you go hockey boy, you never go back.”

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288. “You can’t live life worrying about what people will think. You’ll wake up one day, look at a calendar, and count the days you could have spent being happy.”

— Tessa Bailey

289. “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.”

— Tessa Bailey

290. “His existence is a threat to my sanity.”

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291. “I can’t breathe for loving you and loving you is the only way I can breathe.”

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292. “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

293. “She jackknifed on the couch, screaming so loud that it could be heard clear to Orlando. This was it. Her Dateline moment. A robbery gone wrong. Or was it?, questioned Keith Morrison.”

— Tessa Bailey

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

— Tessa Bailey

295. “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

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

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

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

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

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300. “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