Fangirl Down Quotes

“I just…have this pretty intense need to make sure everyone knows you’re very fucking important. Okay? Could you kindly just go along with it?”
― Tessa Bailey, Fangirl Down

“I had no idea what unconditional love looked like until you, Josephine. You taught me how to be like this and I will love you whether or not you're helping me win some fucking game. We are bigger than a game.”
― Tessa Bailey, Fangirl Down

“It’s not always about the next thing you do. Sometimes it’s about what you already did.”
― Tessa Bailey, Fangirl Down

“No one trash talked her golfer...only her.”
― Tessa Bailey, Fangirl Down

“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, Fangirl Down

“He’d taken that growth they’d achieved together and he’d done the selfless thing. He’d made the decision she was too scared to make herself. His turn had arrived to be the strong one and he’d risen to the occasion. Maybe she could have celebrated him for it if she hadn’t been blindsided. Now that she’d gained time and perspective, she had no choice but to see his actions for what they were. A man expressing his love the only way he’d known how. “Yes, I know he wants what’s best for me,” Josephine said. “Always.” “Do you want what’s best for him?” “Yes,” she managed. “Of course.” “That’s love, honey.” Evelyn tipped her head at the television. “And even when it’s hard or you have to swallow your pride, love should always be celebrated.”
― Tessa Bailey, Fangirl Down

“Slowly, her mouth spread into a grin. “I thought you said you could take a little trash talk. The vein in your forehead leaves me skeptical.”
― Tessa Bailey, Fangirl Down

“I just . . . have this pretty intense need to make sure everyone knows you’re very fucking important. Okay? Could you kindly just go along with it?”
― Tessa Bailey, Fangirl Down

“Thank you, Wells. Really.” Ask me to walk on broken glass next. Watch me not even hesitate.”
― Tessa Bailey, Fangirl Down

“Even if the idea of her cheering for another player made him want to impale himself on his wedge.”
― Tessa Bailey, Fangirl Down

“Therefore, Wells kept coming back, not wanting to disappoint her. His last remaining fan. His last remaining . . . anything. Josephine.”
― Tessa Bailey, Fangirl Down

“I almost had those panties off, Josephine. Frankly, I don't care if it's the pope.”
― Tessa Bailey, Fangirl Down

“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, Fangirl Down

“Are you good at accepting help?”

“No.” Heat slowly built on her cheeks. “Wow. I walked right into that, didn’t I?”

He tipped back his beer with a little too much gusto. “Afraid so.”

“You don’t have to look so smug.”

“I’m sorry, I have no control over my face right now.”

“Maybe I’ll lose control of my finger and poke you right in the eye—”
― Tessa Bailey, Fangirl Down

“What pit of hell did the nickname Joey-Roo come from?” Wells grumbled.

He regretted his tone when she choked a little. “Oh. Well, they started calling me Joey when I was a baby, which as you know, is what they call a baby kangaroo. Hence, Roo.”

“Ridiculous.”

“It’s better than all of your nicknames.”

“Which are?”

“The Prick of Putting, the Doomsday Driver. And my personal favorite, Unhappy Gilmore”
― Tessa Bailey, Fangirl Down

“This woman . . . she counted. Big-time. His gut wasn’t in fucking knots over nothing.”
― Tessa Bailey, Fangirl Down

“Your impenetrable darkness just comes naturally.” “Sort of like your brightness.” That caught her off guard. “You think I’m . . . that I have brightness?” “Better . . . better . . . ,” murmured the barber.”
― Tessa Bailey, Fangirl Down

“You’re saying I can’t be an avid spectator and have a boyfriend?” He gave a brief headshake. “Not if I was your boyfriend.”
― Tessa Bailey, Fangirl Down

“Let’s get one thing straight, belle. You will never wonder where you stand with me or if I’m bullshitting you. You get exactly what you see. I don’t mess around with people, but especially you.”
― Tessa Bailey, Fangirl Down

“We’re getting lunch, Josephine,” Wells shouted on the way to the shower. “Dammit, we’re getting lunch.”
― Tessa Bailey, Fangirl Down

“Holy shit.” Wells fell back in his chair. “The Beach Boys?”
― Tessa Bailey, Fangirl Down

“But baby...
...it's only you and me here, we can be professionals later”
― Tessa Bailey, Fangirl Down

“If Wells could have taken over the condition from her in the moment, he wouldn't have hesitated. Not for a single second. In fact, fuck his working pancreas. It had a lot of nerve.”
― Tessa Bailey, Fangirl Down

“Maybe when those three words were so unequivocally true, they couldn’t be kept inside if someone invoked them.”
― Tessa Bailey, Fangirl Down

“Ask me to walk on broken glass next. Watch me not even hesitate.”
― Tessa Bailey, Fangirl Down

“Who hurt you, Wells?”
― Tessa Bailey, Fangirl Down

“My old caddie didn’t ask questions,” Wells pointed out.

Josephine squared her shoulders and took a step in his direction. “I wouldn’t have taken advice from your old caddie two inches from the hole. He was a banana brain”
― Tessa Bailey, Fangirl Down

“Once I saw the room, I should have known it was yours. I’m . . . this . . . ughhhh.”

Still facing away, Wells crossed his arms. “What the hell does that mean?”

“I mean, obviously this room is yours. The bathtub bamboozled me. Drew me in like a gator to a roasted ham or I would have pieced it together—”
― Tessa Bailey, Fangirl Down

“Five minutes later, Josephine stepped into the most palatial, over-the-top hotel room she’d ever seen in her life. No, it couldn’t even be termed a “room.” It had three seating areas.

“Three?” She let go of her suitcase just inside the door and wandered through the suite in a daze. “But I only have one butt,” she muttered.”
― Tessa Bailey, Fangirl Down

“Holy shit, had he been the asshole all along?”
― Tessa Bailey, Fangirl Down