Tessa Bailey > Quotes

“I’ll love you until my heart gives out. I’ll be your man for a thousand years. Longer if I’m allowed.”
― Tessa Bailey, It Happened One Summer

“So you know what your punishment is going to be, sweetheart? I'm going to make love to you. Slowly. Hell, it might take me until tomorrow. I'm going to lose count of how many times you come. And every time you do, I'm going to tell you that I love you. Until you fucking get used to it.”
― Tessa Bailey, Protecting What's His

“When I hug you?” Fuck. His heart was turning over and over like a car engine. “My hugs are your recharging station?”
― Tessa Bailey, It Happened One Summer

“You can be as high maintenance as you want, honey. But I'm the only one who does the maintenance.”
― Tessa Bailey, It Happened One Summer

“It won’t let me just use my own name as my username.”
“Yeah, probably because about nine hundred Brendan Taggarts joined before you.”
“So what should I use?”
“CaptainCutie69,” Fox spat out.
“IGotCrabs4U,” Deke supplied.
“SlipperyWhenWet.”
Brendan stared. “You’re all fired. Go home.”
― Tessa Bailey, It Happened One Summer

“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, Hook, Line, and Sinker

“Do you feel that, baby? That's your man moving inside you.”
― Tessa Bailey, Protecting What's His

“Constant work, Piper? No. You misunderstand me.” He tipped her chin up and kissed her mouth. “When the reward is as perfect as you, as perfect as this, the work is a fucking honor.”
― Tessa Bailey, It Happened One Summer

“If this woman tacked the word “please” onto any request, he would find a way to fulfill it. Build me a palace, please. How many floors, baby?”
― Tessa Bailey, It Happened One Summer

“I can be in a room full of people that I know and still not feel like I belong”
― Tessa Bailey, It Happened One Summer

“I could tell by the way you looked at her, she was something real special.” “How did I look at her?” He was afraid to find out. “Ah, son. Like a summer day showing up after a hundred years of winter.”
― Tessa Bailey, Hook, Line, and Sinker

“Baby, I don't need an excuse to cuff you. I just need the opportunity.”
― Tessa Bailey, Protecting What's His

“Her soul was made of musical notes.”
― Tessa Bailey, It Happened One Summer

“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, It Happened One Summer

“You have to fight for what you deserve. What you want is no more or less important than what anyone else wants.”
― Tessa Bailey, Fix Her Up

“Fuck yeah. Bite me, gorgeous. Mark up my whole body. I want everyone to know who I belong to. Who I get hard for. Just you, Story. Just you.”
― Tessa Bailey, Officer Off Limits

“Let me be clear, Ginger, since you insist on talking in circles. I want you underneath me in my bed. I want to be buried inside you so deep that I have to remind you of your own name. And I want those motherfuckers leering at you from the other side of the bar to smell me on you for a week afterward.”
― Tessa Bailey, Protecting What's His

“What color are your panties?"
"Excuse me?"
"You heard me."
"Why?"
"Baby, if I'm going to take you into a room full of men wearing that dress, I'm damn well going to be the only one who knows the color of your panties.”
― Tessa Bailey, Protecting What's His

“The longer it takes me to get between your thighs, the rougher I'm going to be when I finally get there. Understand?”
― Tessa Bailey, Protecting What's His

“He growled, equally exhilarated and annoyed by
the way she insisted on pushing him back. “I’m going to put you on your knees, Ruby. You’re going to hate how much you love it.”
― Tessa Bailey, His Risk to Take

“but more important, she was learning to be kind to herself. Learning to love herself, just as she was.”
― Tessa Bailey, It Happened One Summer

“This girl. He’d be keeping her. There was no way around it.”
― Tessa Bailey, It Happened One Summer

“Brendan cleared his throat hard. “What does ‘follow’ mean?”
“Don’t,” Deke rushed to say. “Don’t press it.”
His thumb was already on the way back up. “Too late.”
All three of his crew members surged to their feet. “No. Brendan, don’t tell me you just tapped the blue button,” Sanders groaned, hands on his mop of red hair. “She’s going to see you followed her. She’s going to know you internet stalked her.”
“Can’t I just unfollow now?” Brendan started to tap again.
Fox lunged forward. “No! No, that’s even worse. If she already noticed you followed her, she’s just going to think you’re playing games.”
“Jesus. I’m deleting the whole thing,” Brendan said, throwing the offending device onto the dashboard.”
― Tessa Bailey, It Happened One Summer

“The captain is a little sensitive about Piper,” Fox explained, still wearing that shit-eating grin. “He doesn’t know what to do with his confusing man feelings.”
― Tessa Bailey, It Happened One Summer

“Doesn’t feel like enough to say I love you at this point.”
“Our love is always enough. It’s always more than enough.”
― Tessa Bailey, Hook, Line, and Sinker

“Love comes in many forms. It’s not always sweet. Or comfortable. Sometimes it’s selfish and consuming. Volatile.”
― Tessa Bailey, Unfixable

“Why do women believe they need an occasion to dress up? Dress up for life, goddammit!”
― Tessa Bailey, Fix Her Up

“How can you be so jealous of other men, Derek, when you know there’s only been you?”
“Baby, I’m jealous of men who haven’t even seen you yet.”
― Tessa Bailey, Protecting What's His

“I warned you that I’m having a difficult time being a gentleman. Should I assume you’re provoking me on purpose?”
― Tessa Bailey, Protecting What's His

“Eh.” She waved a hand. “There are thousands of me there.”
Brendan snorted at her joke. And then he realized she was serious.
“Piper, there is nobody like you.”
She smiled like she was humoring him...
He pulled the car onto the side of the road, slammed on the brakes, and threw it into park. “Did you hear me?” He reached over to tilt up her chin. “There is nobody like you.”
“Why are you getting so worked up?”
“Because I . . .thought I was an intuitive man. A smart man. But I keep finding out new ways I’m flying blind when it comes to something so important. You. You are important.”
― Tessa Bailey, It Happened One Summer